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393:. During his service, he played basketball with the Fort Worth Army Air Field team from 1943 to 1944, and then with the Randolph Field team in 1945. He was discharged on December 31, 1945. During 1946, McNeely played with the Globe Aircraft team. McNeely received professional basketball contract offers following his discharge, including a "dollar, two eighty a game" deal with the Leonards "B" team, but elected to return to Texas Wesleyan for the 1946–47 season. He was named team co-captain alongside Hardy Fortenberry. Before the season's start, Texas Wesleyan coach Johnny Edwards stated that McNeely had a good future in professional basketball and could play professionally after he graduated. 265: 249: 358: 509:. Peggy worked as a teacher at Pampa High School during her husband's tenure there. The couple had three children: twin sons Phillip and Michael, and daughter Sheryl. McNeely's two sons played together at Denton High School where he was the principal and they would both go on to become high school basketball coaches. 413:. McNeely held the Texas Wesleyan single season scoring record for 62 years until Chris Berry had 740 points in the 2008–09 season. Regarded as a "deadly" free throw shooter, he also held the Texas Wesleyan record for most free throws made with 213 until that too was surpassed by Berry in the 2008–09 season with 216. 396:
By the start of 1947, McNeely, nicknamed "The Man of a Million Shots", was leading the nation in scoring by a margin of 116 points. He missed three games in January 1947 after suffering a fractured wrist. McNeely led his team to a school-best 30–4 record, won the conference championship and earned
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McNeely was inducted into the Texas High School Basketball Hall of Fame, the Slidell ISD Hall of Fame, the Panhandle Sports Hall of Fame and the Texas Wesleyan University Hall of Fame. Pampa's gymnasium was renamed McNeely Fieldhouse in his honor after his retirement. Former members of the Pampa
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in 1940, but his "shot-crazy" style created doubt as to how well he could fit on the team. During his first season at Texas Wesleyan in 1940–41, McNeely established himself as one of the most talented players on the team and was named team captain for the 1941–42 season. He helped guide Texas
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in 1948. He led the Harvesters to state titles in 1953, 1954, 1958 and 1959. Pampa had a 72-game winning streak from 1952 to 1955. McNeely was offered coaching positions at Texas universities including
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are the only two number-one draft picks in NBA history to never play basketball professionally. The Pittsburgh Ironmen ultimately folded before the start of the
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McNeely studied Administrative Education at Texas Wesleyan, and completed his master's degree after returning to the university in 1953.
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Wesleyan to an undefeated record during the 1941–42 regular season, with the team's only two defeats coming in the postseason against
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McNeely worked in school administration following his retirement from coaching in 1960. He served as an assistant principal at
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McNeely married Peggy Jean Gallagher, who was a fellow student at Texas Wesleyan, on June 14, 1947, in
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in the Greenwood Baptist Church. McNeely had two brothers: one, William Floyd, died at the age of two.
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for four months in 1947, McNeely returned to Texas and became the head basketball coach at
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basketball teams he coached founded the Clifton McNeely Endowed Scholarship in 2002.
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in the Kansas City National Intercollegiate Basketball Tournament.
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McNeely dribbling the ball during a game in the 1946–47 season
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player and coach. A 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
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in scoring with 725 points. He was named to the All-
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In October 1942, McNeely enlisted to serve with the
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Irving, Texas
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Slidell
Slidell, Texas
Dallas Baptist
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Helms
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