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{{short description|American basketball player}}
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| name            = Cat Thompson
| image           = Cat_Thompson.jpg
| caption         = Thompson from the 1930 ''Montanan''
| height_ft       = 5
| height_in       = 10
| weight_lb       = 
| birth_date      = {{birth date|1906|2|10}}
| birth_place     =  [[St. George, Utah]], U.S.
| death_date      = {{death date and age|1990|10|7|1906|2|10}}
| death_place     = [[Idaho Falls, Idaho]], U.S.
| high_school     = [[Dixie High School (Utah)|Dixie]] (St. George, Utah)
| college         = [[Montana State Bobcats men's basketball|Montana State]] (1926–1930)
| career_start    = 
| career_end      = 
| career_number   =  
| career_position = [[Forward (basketball)|Forward]]
| years1          = 
| team1           = 
| highlights      = 
*[[Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year|Helms National Player of the Year]] (1929)
* [[Helms Athletic Foundation#Basketball|Helms National Champion]] (1929)
*4× [[NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|All-American]] ([[1927 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|1927]]–[[1930 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|1930]])
| HOF_player      = cat-thompson
| CBBASKHOF_year = 2006
}}
'''John Ashworth''' "'''Cat'''" '''Thompson''' (February 10, 1906 – October 7, 1990) was an American basketball player.

He won the Utah state championship with [[Dixie High School (Utah)|Dixie High School]] team and finished second in the High School National Tournament in 1925. In college, he played for 3 seasons for [[Montana State University|Montana State]], during which time his team had a record of 102–11. In 1929, he won the [[Helms Foundation Player of the Year]] award and his team won [[Helms Athletic Foundation|Helms National Championship]] . He averaged 15.4 points per game when the average team scored 40 points per game.

He was named [[All-America]] in 1927, 1928, 1929 and 1930. He scored 1,539 points in 100 career college games he played. He was enshrined in the [[Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame]] in 1962.

A 2009 [[ESPN]] College Basketball Encyclopedia named Thompson "one of the five greatest college hoops players of the first half of the 20th century"<ref>{{Cite book |last=ESPN |title=ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia - The Complete History of the Men's Game |publisher=Ballantine Books |year=2009 |isbn=9780345513922 |pages=297}}</ref>

== References ==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070605030559/http://www.hoophall.com/halloffamers/bhof-john-thompson.html Basketball Hall of Fame page on Thompson]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20201129020434/http://catthompsonbasketball.com/Cat_Thompson_Basketball/Introduction.html Cat Thompson Website provided by his family]

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[[Category:All-American college men's basketball players]]
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[[Category:People from St. George, Utah]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Washington County, Utah]]
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