Al Bonniwell

Alfred Eugene Bonniwell (October 6, 1911 – March 8, 2002) was an American basketball player.

Al Bonniwell

Personal information
Born	(1911-10-06)October 6, 1911 Wayne, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	March 8, 2002(2002-03-08) (aged 90) Arlington, Virginia, U.S.
Listed height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Listed weight	175 lb (79 kg)
Career information
High school	Lower Merion (Ardmore, Pennsylvania)
College	Dartmouth (1932–1935)
Playing career	1937–1939
Position	Guard / forward
Career history
1937–1939	Akron Firestone Non-Skids
Career highlights
NBL champion (1938) First-team All-American – Helms (1935)

Basketball career

An early professional in the National Basketball League, he was also an All-American college player at Dartmouth. Bonniwell played two seasons for the Akron Firestone Non-Skids, averaging 5.1 points per game in 39 contests.^[1]

Post-basketball life

Bonniwell served in the U.S. Army in both World War II and the Korean War, and was awarded the Bronze Star. He moved to Alexandria, Virginia in 1961, and retired from the Army in 1967 as a colonel. He then worked as an employment counselor for the Virginia Employment Commission's Falls Church office from 1968 to 1978. He married his wife Maxine (1922–2007) in 1949. They remained married until Al's death, and had two daughters, Linda and Debra, and one son, Ronald.^[2] In 2010, Bonniwell was posthumously inducted into the Lower Merion High School Basketball Hall of Fame, as the first alumnus of the school to play professional basketball.^[3]