Career
A 6 ft 5 in (196 m) forward and center, he was the captain of the Golden Bears basketball team at the University of California under head coach Nibs Price. Ten Eyck resigned after only one season at Gonzaga and was replaced by freshman coach Claude McGrath, hired as head coach in November 1932. After offering a ride to two hitchhikers in California in 1959, Ten Eyck was found beaten to death near Ukiah.