Gene Vance

Gene Vance

Ellis Eugene "Gene" Vance (born February 25 1923 in Clinton, Illinois) is an American former professional basketball player for the NBA's Chicago Stags and a former collegiate athlete for the University of Illinois Fighting Illini basketball team. He is most famous for leading Illinois as a member of the famed "Whiz Kids" of the 1940s. He was drafted into the NBA in 1948, and played for the Chicago Stags, the Tri-Cities Blackhawks and the Milwaukee Hawks. He and the other Whiz Kids, Andy Phillip, Art Mathisen, Ken Menke, and Jack Smiley, are regarded as some of Illiois's all-time greats, but only he and Phillip are on the team's all-century team. Vance and his Whiz Kids teammates left basketball to serve in World War II in 1943. Vance was elected to the "Illini All Century Team" in 2004.

On December 18, 2006, the post office in his hometown of Clinton was named the Gene Vance Post Office in his honor.

Vance was married to Grace Hoberg from 1943 until her death from stomach cancer in 1980; he is now married to Janann Duffy and has four children: Jon, Jim, Sue, and Marty.

External links

* [http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/v/vancege01.html Career NBA stats]


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