One of Rochester's sports legends is dead.
Former Rochester Royal player and longtime St. John Fisher College basketball coach Bobby Wanzer died Saturday at age 94.
On its website, St. John Fisher College Athletics offered thoughts and prayers to the Wanzer family.
He started the basketball program at Fisher in 1963 and ended his coaching career in 1987 with a record of 312 wins and 245 losses.
Wanzer was elected into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1987.
Wanzer spent his entire ten-year pro career with the Rochester Royals coached by Hall of Famer Les Harrison. Wanzer and fellow Hall of Famer Bob Davies were a stunning backcourt team often mentioned alongside the Bob Cousy-Bill Sharman tandem. The Wanzer-Davies duo helped bring Rochester an NBA championship in 1951, according to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.
In 1992, Wanzer was an inaugural member to Fisher's Athletics Hall of Fame and in 2006, Fisher renamed the hardwood at Manning and Napier Varsity Gymnasium "Bobby Wanzer Court".
Here is a link to a YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yguvVnmLMc" target="_blank">interview
