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Jake Burrows, ‘40 Charles Fabian, ‘51 Played: 1938-40 Inducted: 1980 Played: 1948-51 Inducted: 1979 The only member of the Hall of Fame who was both Regimental Com- Earned four letters apiece in football, basketball and baseball ... mander and First Honor Graduate of his class ... in three years of captain of 1951 basketball team ... selected as the school’s Best All- competition, he earned eight total letters ... lettered in football three Around Athlete. times, basketball three times and twice in track ... all-state pick in bas- ketball three times and twice was named All- ... Hank Foster, ‘41 in his three years of basketball, he averaged 11.5 points per game, Played: 1939-41 Inducted: 1992 equating to 31 percent of the team’s total points ... in his three years Lettered in football four times from 1937-40 ... alternate captain of the on the hardwood, The Citadel defeated South Carolina and Furman football team in 1940 ... lettered in basketball three times (1939-41) ... six straight games each ... retired as an assistant athletic director at also lettered in track three times (1939-41) ... selected as the school’s The Citadel. Outstanding Athlete in 1941 ... earned 10 total letters.

Gary Daniels, ‘62 John Frost, ‘22 Played: 1960-62 Inducted: 1983 Played: 1919-22 Inducted: 1979 Three-year basketball letterman who ranks as school’s sixth leading Earned four letters apiece in football, basketball and baseball ... was career scorer (1,394 points) ... at one time, he held or shared 11 indi- twice all-state in football ... basketball teams won three state titles in

vidual school records ... selected twice to the All-Southern Conference four years ... played for Coach Frank Myers. CITADEL HALL OF FAME - BASKETBALL HONOREES team and once to all-conference tournament squad ... co-captain of 1961-62 team ... a member of the “Blitz Kids” ... holds the school mark Ray Graves, ‘60 for highest career scoring average (19.7) ... twice led the team in scor- Played: 1956-60 Inducted: 1993 ing and rebounding – both in the same season. Among the top all-time leading scorers in Bulldog basketball his- tory with 1,160 points ... a member of the famous “Blitz Kids” team Wortham” Buddy” Dibble, ‘36 coached by Norm Sloan ... played in 95 games from the 1956-60 sea- Played: 1934-36 Inducted: 1987 son ... successful on 296-for-440 (.673) free throw attempts over the Three-year varsity basketball player ... won the South Carolina Inter- course of his career ... opened his career by scoring 402 points during collegiate Tennis Championship in 1935 and 1936 ... played tennis the 1956-57 season ... eclipsed the 20-point plateau on 15 different three years. occasions in his career, including a career-high 30 points against Da- vidson on Feb. 20, 1960. John Douglas, ‘27 Played: 1927 Inducted: 1979 Randy Heffron, ‘69 Lettered in basketball, baseball and football ... was an all-state and all- Played: 1966 Inducted: 1990 conference basketball selection for three years ... team won state title Captured four Southern Conference tennis championships and was a in 1927 ... played for coach Benny Blatt ... started on the ’27 team that two-year tennis team captain ... recipient of the Marion S. Lewis and won the school’s lone basketball championship, the Southern Intercol- Senior Class Sportsmanship Awards ... served in the U.S. Army and legiate Athletic Association, by defeating Kentucky, Chattanooga and later as a faculty member at MUSC’s College of Dental Medicine. Mercer in succession ... coached the Bulldogs’ basketball team from 1931-33 and had an 18-31 record. Tee Hooper, ‘69 Played: 1967-69 Inducted: 1982 Chuck Cordell, ‘74 Top dual sport athlete ... two-time All-Southern Conference basketball Played: 1971-74 Inducted: 2010 selection ... upon his graduation, he was one of the top 10 career scor- Lettered all four years in basketball and baseball ... Cordell, in 1974, ers in school’s history ... also won fi ve conference tennis crowns (two served as captain for both teams while being named to the Outstand- singles and three doubles). ing College Athletes of America list and receiving the Sportsmanship Award, as voted by the senior class … fi nished among the nation’s best free throw shooters, connecting on 90.5 percent in 1972-73 Richard “Dick” Jones, ‘61 (bested by the national leader who fi nished at 91.0%) … named to Played: 1958-61 Inducted: 1978 the Southern Conference’s All-Tournament Team in ’74, Cordell was A two-sport standout on the 1958-61 basketball and baseball teams ... second in team scoring as a junior with a 15.3 average … recorded captained the basketball team his senior year and averaged 16.1 ppg 44 points in a freshman game against Furman … on the diamond, he ... a member of the famed “Blitz Kids” ... was All-Southern Conference batted over .300 for his career as an infi elder and was selected to the in baseball as a junior and senior with batting averages of .367 and ’74 All-South team, which includes all conference in the 13 Southern .375. states.

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Frank McNeil, 1938 the late 1950s with the famous “Blitz Kids”... coached the Bulldogs Inducted: 1979 for four seasons (1957-60) and had a 57-38 (.600) record... after his Earned 11 letters in football, basketball and baseball ... one of the fi rst season, the U.S. Rubber Company named The Citadel the “Most founders of the Brigadier Club ... twice earned all-state accolades in Improved Team” in the country and presented the Bulldogs with the basketball ... was second team all-conference. Award ... the South Carolina Sportswriters Association named him the 1959 Coach of the Year ... the 11-14 mark in 1957 was Art Musselman, 1960 the school’s best in 18 years and The Citadel improved from being the Played: 1957-60 Inducted: 1981 750th best team in America to No. 34 ... in 1959, The Citadel made its Key player in the “Blitz Kids” era ... was three-time, All-Southern lone appearance in the Southern Conference Championship game, Conference and all-state selection ... voted the state’s Outstanding losing to West Virginia, 85-66, and the Mountaineers’ standout per- Basketball Player in 1957 ... is college’s third leading all-time scorer former, Jerry West ... under Sloan, the Bulldogs played in the school’s (1,506 points) ... converted 587 fi eld goal attempts over the course of fi rst-ever television appearance, a 60-57 Citadel victory at Clemson his four-year career ... paced the team in scoring in 1958 (15.7) and ... he later coached at NC State and won the national championship in 1959 (16.1) ... scored 20 or more points on 28 different occasions in 1974. over the course of his career ... established a career-high in points (36) during a victory over Furman in the opening round of the 1959 Regan Truesdale, 1985 SoCon Tournament ... averaged 15.9 points per game during his il- Played: 1982-85 Inducted: 2003 lustrious career, the fi fth-best effort in school history ... his 332 made The Citadel’s second all-time leading basketball scorer with 1,661 free throws ties for the sixth-best mark in school annals. points ... held the all-time scoring record for 25 years, 315 days ... a two-time recipient of the Malcolm U. Pitt Award, signifying the South- Randy Nesbit, 1980 ern Conference’s player-of-the-year ... was twice named fi rst team All- Played: 1977-80 Inducted: 2011 Southern Conference ... continues to hold the school record for points A three-year starting point guard on -coached basket- in a season (624), fi eld goals in a season (242), fi eld goals attempted ball teams ... was a key member of The Citadel’s 1979 team that won in a game (32), season (477), and free throws made in a game (22) ... 20 games, a fi rst for the college ... the captain of the ’80 team, Nesbit made 638 fi eld goals over the course of his career ... his 688 career was selected to the 1979 and ’80 All-Southern Conference second rebounds remains the second best effort in Citadel history. team ... paced the ’78 team with a 54.0 fi eld goal percentage ... had a 92.5 free throw percentage in 1980, which was the second-best in the John Weeks, 1917 NCAA ... tied a school mark with 13 assists in a 1979 game against Inducted: 1978 Marshall, fi nishing with 120 dishes that season ... later served as an Was a three-sport star, starting four years in football (1913-16) and assistant to Robinson, and was named The Citadel’s Head Coach three in basketball and baseball ... was two-time all-state quarterback from 1986-92. ... served as captain for both the football and basketball teams. THE CITADEL HALL OF FAME THE CITADEL E. P. Skelton, 1930 Teddy Weeks, 1927 Inducted: 1985 Inducted: 1982 A four-year football letterman who played basketball one season ... Was a top quarterback and outstanding basketball player ... All-South member of the college’s swim team and participated on the boxing Carolina in both sports for three straight years ... was an outstanding squad ... captured the heavyweight division title in South Carolina in high school coach in Charleston following his graduation. 1930 ... voted “Best Athlete” by his classmates. Dick Wherry, 1960 Tom Slawson, 1980 Played: 1957-60 Inducted: 1992 Played: 1977-80 Inducted: 2008 Lettered in basketball from 1957-60 and captained the 1960 team ... Finished his career as the fourth-leading scorer in Citadel basketball was among the all-time top-15 leading scorers in school history with history with 1,408 points ... paced the team in scoring as a junior (17.1 1,186 points ... among the top-10 all-time in free throws made with ppg) and senior (15.4 ppg), and was twice named to the All-Southern 289 ... career scoring average was 12.5 points per game ... played for Conference second team ... led the team in rebounding three consec- Norm Sloan and recorded a 46-24 record over his fi nal three seasons utive seasons ... was a member of the Les Robinson-coached team ... a member of “The Blitz Kids” ... also lettered in track. that went 20-7 (10-4 SoCon) in 1979, the fi rst Citadel team to post a 20-win season and second-best league fi nish in school history ... Charles Willard, 1932 member of the All-SoCon Tournament second team in ‘79 ... fi nished Played: 1929-32 Inducted: 1991 his career ranked third in fi eld goals made (572), seventh in rebound- Lettered all four years in football, basketball and track ... captained ing (662) and ninth in fi eld goals made in a season (197). the basketball team his senior year ... earned all-state accolades on the gridiron as a senior ... only track athlete to enter state meets and Norm Sloan win a place in all events he entered ... cadet captain and commanded Honorary Inductee Inducted: 2002 “D” company ... was the varsity track and basketball coach (14-16 An honorary inductee who guided Citadel basketball to its heyday in record) and assistant football coach at The Citadel from 1934-36.

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