Category | Player Date of Birth | 22.10.1927 Date of Death | 11.06.2018 Position | Forward Height | 188cm (6'2") Country | Argentina
Gimnasia y Esgrima de Villa del Parque: 1944-1956
Southern Methodist University (NCAA): 1953-1956
Club Highlights
6 times Champion of Buenos Aires (the Argentinean national championship was only created in 1984): (1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1951 and 1954)
National Team
50 appearances with the Argentinean National Team from 1947 to 1955: participated in 2 Olympic Games (London 1948 and Helsinki 1952) and in the Buenos Aires 1950 World Championship
World Champion in Buenos Aires 1950
Gold medalist in the World University Games of 1953 in Dortmund
2 times Silver medalist in the Pan American Games: Buenos Aires 1951 and Mexico City 1955
Individual Highlights
After the 1948 London Games, Furlong received a formal offer to join the Minneapolis Lakers (NBA), but declined it. The Baltimore Bullets where not successful either
MVP and Top Scorer of the 1950 World Championship in Buenos Aires
Furlong introduced the jump-shot in Argentina after learning it during his three seasons in the Southern Methodist University (Division I, NCAA)