Prof Blood - Basketball's First Great Coach

Aside from being a nonpareil coach, Prof Blood was an incredible athlete in his own right. Young Ernest was a YMCA prodigy, and excelled in gymnastics, fencing, and wrestling, where at the age of 15, he won the New England wrestling championship for his weight class. His constant physical activity, along with weightlifting, would come to develop in him strength that would be beyond most men. He could toss up a 16-pound shot put into the air and then proceed to catch it on the back of his neck. While he took to the game of basketball like a duck takes to water, Prof also played football and baseball and was good at both. His athletic prowess enabled him to coach many other sports including baseball, where he once even gave batting tips to Babe Ruth, when he was a Red Sox. When Babe was traded to the Yankees, Prof used to visit him at Yankee Stadium.