Dick Farley (basketball), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetDick Farley (basketball)
American basketball player
Date of Birth: 13-Apr-1932
Place of Birth: Winslow, Indiana, United States
Date of Death: 01-Oct-1969
Profession: basketball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Dick Farley (basketball)
- Richard L.
- Farley (April 13, 1932 – October 2, 1969) was an American professional basketball player. A 6'4" (1.93 m) guard/forward from Winslow, Indiana, Farley played for the 1953 Indiana University national championship team.
- He also played three seasons (1954–1956; 1958–1959) in the National Basketball Association as a member of the Syracuse Nationals and Detroit Pistons.
- He averaged 6.5 points per game in his career and won a league title with Syracuse in 1955. Farley previously held the NBA record for the shortest amount of time on the floor before fouling out in a game, with five minutes' playing time, set on March 12, 1956.
- The record stood for 41 years until the Dallas Mavericks' Bubba Wells broke it by getting himself disqualified in just 3 minutes on December 29, 1997.Farley died of cancer on October 2, 1969.
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