Gustave Theodore "Gus" Broberg, Jr. (June 16, 1920 – November 23, 2001) was a college basketball standout, World War II

World War II

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 pilot, lawyer

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 and judge

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. An American

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, Broberg played basketball as a forward at Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College

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 from 1938 to 1941, where he became the first Ivy League

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 player to lead the conference in scoring for three straight seasons; he scored 13.8 points per game (ppg) as a sophomore

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, 14.5 ppg as a junior

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 and 14.9 ppg as a senior

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. Broberg was a Helms Foundation First Team All-American as a sophomore in 1938–39, and then a two-time Consensus First Team All-American in 1940

1940 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans

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 and 1941

1941 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans

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.

Broberg played minor league baseball for a brief stint when he graduated college but then enlisted in the United States Marine Corps

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 to serve as a pilot in World War II. He lost his right arm when his plane crashed, earning him a Purple Heart

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 award by the military. In his later life he would become a lawyer and esteemed judge in the state of Florida

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 after earning his J.D.

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 from the University of Virginia School of Law

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 in 1948.

Gus Broberg was also the father of former Major League Baseball

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 pitcher Pete Broberg

Pete Broberg

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, and both were inducted into the Palm Beach Sports Hall of Fame in 1984.