Arva Cunningham

Arva Cunningham played in the basketball tournament that was held during the 1904 St. Louis Olympics. He played for the Turner Tigers team that finished last in the tournament. Turner Tigers, a Los Angeles based team, lost to the Buffalo Germans 77-6, and to the St. Louis Central YMCA 24-12, and then defaulted their remaining games.

Cunningham was born in Adel, Iowa and came to the Pomona Valley in Southern California as a child. During World War I he was in charge of setting up logging camps in Oregon to obtain wood for ships. An engineer, in the 1920s he built bridges and dams in Oregon and in the 1930s he was a maintenance engineer for the city of Pasadena. After retirement he devoted his time to theosophical studies.