University of North Dakota Athletics

  A former East Grand Forks resident, Haaven was known as "The Touch." He had great basketball ability, was an All Conference center three times and scored nearly 1,500 points in his UND career, which was interrupted for two years service in the Army. His Sioux career spanned 1951-57. He was a Little All America center in 1954. He held many UND basketball scoring records until Phil Jackson broke them in the mid-1960's. Haaven had 10 games of scoring between 30 and 39 points and two 40-point games and was over 20 points many times.