George Yardley

George Yardley, American basketball player (died 2004)

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Born: November 3, 1928
Age in 2026: 98
Zodiac sign: Scorpio
Birth year: 1928

About George Yardley

George Harry Yardley III was an American basketball player. He was the first player in National Basketball Association (NBA) history to score 2,000 points in one season, breaking the 1,932-point record held by George Mikan. Yardley was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1996. Yardley was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, and earned the nickname "Yardbird" due to the chores he was required to complete by his fraternity brothers as the youngest man in the fraternity. Yardley's San Francisco Stewart Chevrolet amateur team won the national AAU championship in 1951, with Yardley being selected the national amateur player-of-the-year. Los Alamitos won the all-Navy championship in 1953, with Yardley scoring 38 points in the championship game.

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George Yardley timeline

1951Yardley's San Francisco Stewart Chevrolet amateur team won the national AAU championship in 1951, with Yardley being selected the national amateur player-of-the-year.
1953Los Alamitos won the all-Navy championship in 1953, with Yardley scoring 38 points in the championship game.
1996Yardley was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1996.

The world when George Yardley was born

George Yardley was born in 1928. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1928

#1 song"Makin' Whoopee" – Eddie Cantor
Top movieSteamboat Willie (first Mickey Mouse)
Best-selling bookLady Chatterley's Lover – D.H. Lawrence

Headlines and milestones

Major sports momentKnute Rockne's "Win one for the Gipper" speech
Top headlineHerbert Hoover elected president
Technology milestonePenicillin discovered by Alexander Fleming
Defining fadMickey Mouse mania
Notable inventionSliced bread
World population2.07 billion

United States snapshot

U.S. leaderCalvin Coolidge
Sports championNew York Yankees (World Series)
U.S. population120.5M

1928 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in George Yardley's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure	1928	2026
Gas	$0.21	$3.45/gal
Average home	$6,200	$435,000
Average income	$3,800	$67,500
Movie ticket	$0.25	$11.95
Postage stamp	$0.02	$0.73
Population	120.5M	341 million

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