![]() Pitts with the Phillips 66ers.
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Born |
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June 23, 1919||||||||||||
Died | October 29, 2011 Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
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Nationality | American | ||||||||||||
Listed height | 6 ft 4.5 in (1.94 m) | ||||||||||||
Listed weight | 201 lb (91 kg) | ||||||||||||
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High school | University (Oxford, Mississippi) | ||||||||||||
College | Arkansas (1939–1942) | ||||||||||||
Position | Guard | ||||||||||||
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Robert C. "R. C." Pitts (June 23, 1919 – October 29, 2011) was an American basketball player who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics.
Pitts played collegiately for the University of Arkansas, making All-Southwest Conference in 1942. He later played for the Amateur Athletic Union juggernaut Phillips Petroleum Phillips 66ers, where he made AAU All-America in 1948.
Pitts was part of the American men's basketball team in the 1948 Summer Olympics, which won the gold medal.