De Bernardi

Forrest "Red" DeBernardi

High School:

Iola (KS) High School (1915-16)

Northeast (MO) High School (1916-19)

High School Playing Highlights:

All-Kansas High School (1919)

All-City (1919)

College

University of Kansas (1920-21)

Westminster College (1921-23)

College Playing Highlights:

Two-time All-Conference (1922, 1923)

Amateur

AAU Shmelzer's (1918-19)

AAU Kansas City Athletic Club (1920-22)

AAU Hillyard Shine Alls (1923-27)

AAU Cook's Painter Boys (1928-29)

AAU Tulsa DX Oilers (1929-31)

Amateur Playing Highlights:

KCAC won the national basketball tournament title (1921), finished third in 1920

Hillyard won AAU national title (1926, 1927)

Cook Paint Company won AAU national title (1928, 1929)

Won six AAU national tournament titles

Named an AAU All-America seven times in 11 AAU national tournaments

Was named an AAU All-America at guard, forward and center

Played in 10 national AAU tournaments

Selected as the center on the Associated Press All-Time All-American college basketball team (1938)

Helms Athletic Foundation Hall of Fame Award (1952)

Bio

For 11 years, Forrest DeBernardi was a dominant player in the college and AAU ranks. A two-time All-America at Westminster College in 1920 and 1921, "Red" was granted permission by the faculty to play on the Kansas City Athletic Club (KCAC) basketball team that finished third in the AAU national tournament in 1920 and won the tournament in 1921. From 1922 through 1929, DeBernardi was associated with the KCAC team, the Hillyard Chemical Company and the Cook Paint Company team. When he retired in 1929, he had participated in 10 national AAU tournaments and was named to the AAU All-American team eight times. On five of those occasions, Forrest was a member of a national championship team. To show his dominance in the sport, the Associated Press selected DeBernardi as the center on its All-Time All-America college basketball team in 1938