Fred Beretta, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetFred Beretta
American basketball player (1917-1962)
Date of Birth: 24-Jan-1917
Place of Birth: Proctor, Vermont, United States
Date of Death: 17-Nov-1962
Profession: basketball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Fred Beretta
- Fernando Frederick Beretta (January 24, 1917 – November 17, 1962) was an American basketball player.
- He is best known for his All-American college career with Purdue University. Beretta played at Bedford High School in Bedford, Indiana, then went to Purdue to play college basketball.
- At Purdue Beretta was a three-year letterman, a member of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity, and earned first-team All-Big Ten Conference and first-team All-American honors from the Helms Athletic Foundation as a senior in 1940.
- A guard, Beretta was known as a strong defender and ballhandler. Beretta played for the Akron Firestone Non-Skids in the 1940–41 National Basketball League season, prior to joining the U.S.
- Army for World War II.
- Beretta would later be inducted into the Purdue athletic hall of fame and the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame.
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