San Francisco ? Hank Luisetti, the three-time All-American forward from Stanford who revolutionized basketball by popularizing the running one-handed shot, has died. He was 86.

Luisetti died Tuesday in San Mateo, his companion Nancy Gommeringer said. Luisetti had been ill with an unknown ailment for four months, she said.

The 6-foot-3 Luisetti changed the sport when he introduced his one-handed shot at New York’s Madison Square Garden during a Dec. 30, 1936 game against Long Island University.

Stanford’s 45-31 victory ended Long Island’s 43-game winning streak, and Luisetti, who finished with 15 points, brought the beginning of the end for a game that had been defined by the traditional two-handed set shot.

Luisetti was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1959 and was selected for the inaugural Pac-10 Hall of Honor in March 2001.

Luisetti was an All-America selection at Stanford from 1936-1938 and was selected the Helms Athletic Foundation Player of the Year in 1937 and 1938.