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Jan 24, 1917 Proctor, Vermont, United States Died on 17 Nov 1962 (aged 45)
American basketball player (1917-1962)
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About Fred Beretta
- Fernando Frederick Beretta (January 24, 1917 – November 17, 1962) was an American basketball player.
- He is best known for his All-American college career with Purdue University. Beretta played at Bedford High School in Bedford, Indiana, then went to Purdue to play college basketball.
- At Purdue Beretta was a three-year letterman, a member of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity, and earned first-team All-Big Ten Conference and first-team All-American honors from the Helms Athletic Foundation as a senior in 1940.
- A guard, Beretta was known as a strong defender and ballhandler. Beretta played for the Akron Firestone Non-Skids in the 1940–41 National Basketball League season, prior to joining the U.S.
- Army for World War II.
- Beretta would later be inducted into the Purdue athletic hall of fame and the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame.
