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Lampkin, a two-year all-conference guard in basketball, was also a standout javelin thrower in track and field … In basketball, he helped the Demons win the Louisiana Intercollegiate Conference title in 1946-47 and 1947-48 after having his college career interrupted by WWII … the 47-48 team advanced to National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball Championships (forerunner of the NAIA) … won the LIC javelin championship as a senior and took the Southern AAU Junior Division title … second in the Southern AAU Senior Division … as a member of the U.S Marines during the war, Lampkin played on a Marine basketball team that won the West Coast Military Championship before he returned to college … … on the Top 100 Demons of the Century roster chosen in the 2012-13 basketball centennial celebration.