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Nicholas Stoneman starred in football, basketball and baseball for the La Crosse Normal School in the early 1920s. He was voted most valuable player by the La Crosse Tribune sports staff while on Coach Ray "Tubby" Keeler's 1921-22 basketball team that won the Normal School Conference Championship.
Following graduation, he taught physical education and coached football and basketball at Marshfield and Monroe high schools through 1929. In 1929 he joined the A.G. Spalding Bros. Company as a salesman after a series of promotions, eventually became the a manger of Spalding's third largest of 54 stores.
In 1941, he and another La Crosse grad organized the Badger Sports Goods Company in Madison. He retired in 1970.
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