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Marvin "Amo" Arnold

  • Class
    1959
  • Induction
    2005
  • Sport(s)
    Men's Basketball, Baseball

Marvin “Amo” Arnold played basketball and baseball while at Earlham. A four-year basketball player, he scored 996 points in his career. Arnold was the basketball team co-captain as a junior and a senior. He finished sixth in the nation in free throw percentages as a junior, and eighth, as a senior. During his junior and senior years at Earlham, he played baseball. A starter at first base, he led the team in hitting at .317 in his final season, which earned him Player of the Year honors for the Quakers.

After leaving Earlham, Arnold worked for 42 years in the Indiana public schools enjoying great success teaching math and coaching track, basketball and football.

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