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Harold “Hal” McClary, last player in line, stands with the Johnson Paint City League basketball team. McClary was a three-time first-team All-Pacific Coast Conference North selection at the University of Washington, where his length earned him the nickname “Stork” and he is remembered as the program’s first “big man.” Playing for program patriarch Clarence S. “Hed” Edmundson, McClary led the Huskies to three successive Pacific Coast Conference titles in 1928, 1929 and 1930 and he was named to Knute Rockne’s “mythical” All-American team in 1930. In an era with few or no professional basketball options, McClary came to live in Tacoma and work in the wood products industry, and like many accomplished college and former high school players, competed regionally with amateur teams sponsored by local businesses like Johnson Paint. “The Stork” was UW’s star player when the program opened the Washington Pavilion, taking two of three games from the visiting University of Illinois. The facility, of course, would eventually be named after Edmundson.Lexicon
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McClary, Hal