Education
Boldt graduated from Verdugo Hills High School in Tujunga, California before enrolling at Glendale Community College in the fall of 1951.
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Boldt graduated from Verdugo Hills High School in Tujunga, California before enrolling at Glendale Community College in the fall of 1951.
He scored 16 points in the 1956 national championship match against Iowa. Junior college
At Verdugo, Boldt scored 1,024 points in 63 career games. Foreign a time, Boldt was the nation"s leading scorer at the junior college level
He earned All-America honors following his 1950-1951 sophomore season.
After graduating from Glendale, Boldt enrolled in the United States Army. He spent one year serving in the military and played on the Army"s basketball squad.
Boldt made the all-star team, and upon being honorably discharged he went home to California. San Francisco
In the fall of 1955-1956, Boldt enrolled at USF to play basketball.
In his first season, the Dons, led by Russell and Jones, recorded an undefeated season en route to winning the National Collegiate Athletic Association Tournament.
He was a starting forward. Years later, Boldt mentioned how it"s been pointed out that he and Michael Jordan both scored 16 points in their respective National Collegiate Athletic Association national championship games. He said, "I had to laugh.
I may have got 16 but I wouldn"t be talking to anyone if we didn"t have Bill Russell playing center and K. C. Jones playing guard for us."
The following season, Boldt"s senior year in 1956-1957, the USF squad had lost Russell, Jones and other key players due to graduation, so a third straight national championship seemed implausible.
The Dons beat Michigan State in the Third Place consolation game. Early into Boldt"s final season, San Francisco"s then-National Collegiate Athletic Association record 60-game winning streak was snapped on December 17, 1956.
Coincidentally, the streak had begun exactly two years earlier on December 17, 1954. San Francisco compiled a 60–7 record in Boldt"s two seasons on the team
Boldt was selected in the 7th round (50th overall) in the 1957 National Basketball Association Draft by the Detroit Pistons following the conclusion of his collegiate career.
He never played in the National Basketball Association, however. Boldt then spent some time playing for the Buchan Bakers in the National Industrial Basketball League (NIBL), where in 1958-1959 he was a Western Conference All-Star. He was also named the All-Star Game Most Valuable Player after holding Dick Boushka, the NIBL"s leading scorer, to only six points (all coming off free throws).
After Boldt quit playing basketball, he spent time in the 1970s working as a scout and assistant coach for the American Basketball Association"s Los Angeles Stars.
He then began his career in business, and in 1984 he entered the coffee industry. He died after a period of declining health, on January 30, 2015.