| Lawton Fontaine |
| Guard/Forward |
| HS: | Akron, OH |
| Born: |
| Season | Cl | Pos | G | GS | FG | FGA | % | FT | FTA | % | Fls | DQ | Pts | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1926-27 | So | G/F | 4 |
0 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
0 |
0.0 |
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| Career | 4 |
0 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
0 |
0.0 |
Lawton Fontaine was an excellent all around athlete who was a reserve basketball player for Syracuse for one season.
Fontaine played basketball to keep in shape between the football and baseball seasons. He was a highly touted pitcher his sophomore year with a 'great fastball and fair curve' per coach Lew Carr. However, he was academically declared ineligible for baseball. That ineligibility would carry over into his junior season, and he was unable to play on the football team, which had been counting on him highly.
Fontaine would transfer to Ohio State University midway through his junior season and play football and basketball there. He would be declared ineligible for further NCAA sports in 1930 when it was ruled he had previously played professional baseball for Coshocton of the Eastern Ohio League. Fontaine had been an outstanding baseball player at Ohio State, leading the team in home runs and triples at the time he was disqualified.
He would graduate from Ohio State and would work in manufacturing in Ohio. He would be an outstanding amateur golfer in the 1960s in local Ohio events.
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