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After moving to West Seattle from his native Minnesota, Harold “Hal” McClary was a football and basketball standout for the Indians and decided to attend the University of Washington to study natural resources. He also decided to try out for the basketball team, and he turned out to be as good in the college setting as he was in high school, making the team and, after a year of skills work, he entered the starting lineup as a sophomore and set off on one of the school’s most underrated careers, one that saw him named to an All-America team and three-team All-Pacific Coast Conference north. Though not a native of Tacoma, he settled there professionally after graduation to work in the wood products industry and added to his basketball legend in the highly competitive amateur basketball community, playing for the Tacoma Semi-Pros, a high-level amateur team usually sponsored by a local business. Teams like these were common settings for former college stars like McClary to play at the time but eventually gave way to the emergence of professional leagues, most notable the National Basketball Association. The McClary’s sons — Douglas and David — would also go on to attend and compete for the University of Washington. Hal McClary died at the age of 87 on December 15, 1994.Lexicon
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