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Theodore Kiendl, Jr. (May 5, 1890 – July 26, 1976) was an American college basketball player at Columbia University in the early 1900s. He played in the era before national player awards or national championships existed, but the Helms Athletic Foundation retroactively named him a three-time All-American. In 1944, the Foundation also retroactively named him its College Basketball Player of the Year for the 1910–11 season, and in February 1943 it retroactively named his Columbia team the national champions for the 1909–10 season. In Kiendl's four seasons the Lions compiled 42 wins and 16 losses. He was a team captain in his final three seasons and was also a three-time All-Eastern Interscholastic League selection (1908–09, 1911). Kiendl played the forward position and weighed 215 pounds (98