Hugh “Hunk” Latham played three sports at the University of Oregon and helped the basketball program develop a following that created McArthur Court.

Latham played four seasons of baseball and football, but neither team found success like the basketball team. In Latham’s three seasons (1921, 22-24), the Ducks were a combined 45-25, which caused attendance to rise and students to lobby for a modern basketball facility. The student body voted to tax itself $15 per year in order to pay for capital projects on campus, one of which was an indoor arena it named after Clifton McArthur, the school’s first Student Body President. The gym opened in October of 1926.

Latham was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 1982 and was inducted into the University of Oregon Hall of Fame in 2012.