Hall of FAME Most Outstanding Senior Athlete and named to Known for his hard work and boundless Gordon Austin ’84 the All Metro Basketball Team in 1968. Beatty enthusiasm, Brown was voted by his teammates Inducted 2001 finished second in the NCAA in rebounding as the team MVP in his junior and senior years, One of the finest a junior and was AU’s leading scorer in 1968. as well as being an All-East Coast Conference basketball players He was also included in the 1968-69 Edition selection both seasons. Brown was invited to to ever don the of “Who’s Who Among Students in American participate in the 1975 Pan American Games AU Red and Blue, Universities and Colleges.” Beatty finished his tryouts and was sleected in the 7th round of the Gordon Austin career with 1,126 rebounds, which is third all- 1977 NBA Draft by the hometown Washington set a standard of time at American. He also holds the third (458 Bullets. Brown received his bachelor’s degree excellence during rebounds) and ninth-best (390) single-season from the School of Communication in 1978. his four years on rebounding years in AU history. Arthur graduated the hardwood. from American with a Bachelor of Arts Degree George L. Brown ’40 Inducted 1970 Making his mark on in Interior Design. Drafted in the third round by the school record two U.S. professional teams - the ABA’s New Known as “Moe” book, Austin is the all-time leader in assists York Nets and the NBA’s Phoenix Suns - in 1968, to his teammates for a career (691) and a season (247). He also Arthur accepted an offer from the Belgium pro and friends, ranks second in career steals (235) and steals club, Racing Mechelen, which included free George Brown in a season (91), though he held both records tuition at Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts. While played four sports upon graduation. As a senior, he finished fourth playing three games a week in Belgium, he also during his time at in assists per game in NCAA Division I and was studied his passion for the arts. Arthur said, “I American. He was named Honorable Mention All-America by the made my choice to become an artist instead very humble even Sporting News. Yet, it was not Austin’s statistical of a ballplayer, and I’ve never regretted it.” though he was a achievements that he is best known for. A winner football star and in every sense of the word, he helped lead the W. James Birthright had great athletic Eagles to an impressive 78-39 record during his Inducted 1969 ability. His coaches boasted his consistent four years, a run that is unmatched by any other W. James Birthright effort and hard work during practice and during four-year span in school history. Included in that was a member competition. George played guard for the total were back-to-back National Invitational of American’s basketball team and had devastating range on Tournament appearances and one of the biggest first basketballthe court. He was a smooth, level-headed player wins ever for the program when an Austin-led team. He joined who tended to keep his team poised with his Eagle squad defeated fifth-ranked Georgetown, the Eagles for the leadership qualities. George also led the way 62-61, in the Capital Centre on Dec. 16, 1982. inaugural 1926-27 for establishing a baseball team at American. In season and led 1938, he wrote articles on why there should be the team to a 20- a team and had several students sign a petition. Arthur L. Beatty, Jr. ’69 14 record in two Also in 1938, George received the Most Valuable Inducted 2005 seasons. Player Award for the football team at American. Arthur Leon He was a great athlete, a good scholar and a Beatty, Jr. grew friend to everyone. Calvin Brown ’77 up in Washington, Inducted 2015 D.C., playing David L. Carrasco basketball. By Brown enters Inducted 1998 age 13, Arthur the Cassell Hall If you are ever reached over of Fame as an traveling west six feet tall and accomplished into El Paso on went on to play member of the Interstate 10, varsity basketball Eagles teams you might come at McKinley from 1973-1977. across the David Technical Senior He is one of 14 L. Carrasco Job High School. Upon graduation he reached AU players to Corps Center. This 7’1’’ and accepted a scholarship to American finish his career mural is dedicated University to play basketball. Among his with over 1,000 to the former accomplishments, he was recognized as the points (1,387) and 500 rebounds (546). AU basketball

2008, 2009, 2014 Patriot League Champions 3 Hall of FAME coach and athletics director. Named the 1958 Ed Clements ’60 Brian Gilgeous ’93 NCAA College Division National Coach of the Inducted 2003 Inducted 2004 Year, Carrasco’s real commitment was towards integration. “He wasn’t always about winning,” Ed lettered in In Brian’s says his son David. During a three-year run basketball, track, final year, he starting with the 1957-58 season the Eagles cross-country and capped off his made three straight NCAA College Division baseball during spectacular National Tournaments under Carrasco. Also, his years at AU. career by being under Carrasco’s command the team won three His versatility selected the 1993 Mason Dixon Conference titles and earned two as an athlete CAA Player of the NCAA tournament appearances (small college earned him 10 Year. He averaged division). letters as a varsity 24.1 points per member. On the game in CAA Carrasco is one of only four coaches in basketball floor is conference American’s history to have four straight winning where Clements really shined. During his games and 22.7 points overall. seasons. A leader in the area of racial integration tenure at AU, the Eagles won three Mason- at the college men’s basketball level, Carrasco Dixon Conference titles and were in the He dazzled the crowd versus Mount Saint Mary’s was recruited by the State Department to teach NCAAs (small college division) every year. with a career-high 42 points and he scored 30 sports abroad after coaching. David Carrasco His outstanding skills as a guard allowed him to or more points on six different occasions. He passed away in 1990, but his memory lives on average 14 points per game. Ed scored a career- also recorded five double-doubles and ranked in the lives of his players and in the ideals he high in the NCAAs versus Wagner, netting among the top 10 in six different offensive and sought to impart. 37 points. Ed also served two years as the defensive categories in the CAA. Gilgeous ended president of the Varsity Club, was chosen as the his career as the second all-time scoring leader Stafford H. “Pop” Cassell Outstanding Senior Athlete and was selected in AU history with 2,013 points and currently is Inducted 1970 for the Who’s Who in American Colleges and third. He is a member of the 500 rebound club, Stafford H. “Pop” Universities. Ed was a tough competitor and his currently ninth with 688. He is in the top 10 in Cassell coached discipline and hard work in athletics earned him over 10 offensive categories in Eagle history. AU basketball a spot in AU history. for 11 years and Andre Ingram ‘07 Inducted 2019 compiled a record of 155-94 from Andre Ingram 1937-1942 and Bartley A. Fugler ’48 became AU’s from 1946-1952. Inducted 1971 second-ever NBA His teams had Bart was a captain player when he six consecutive for the baseball scored 19 points winning seasons. and basketball with the Los Cassell was a longtime Athletic Director at teams at Angeles Lakers in American and also coached the football team. American. He also the final game of However, while his love may have been AU lettered in football the 2018 season, athletics, his biggest contribution to American and tennis. During a journey 12 years came later when he became a special assistant to the ’42-43 season, in the making. the President of the University, Hurst Anderson. Bart was runner- Ingram spent 12 years in the NBA’s G-League During his time working for the President, the up in the scoring before making his NBA debut in April 2018 as University went through the largest building title in basketball, the oldest American rookie in the NBA since phase of any time in its history. One project that averaging 17.5 points per game. In 1947, Bart at least 1964. At AU, he was a three-time All- did not get finished before Cassell passed away was awarded the Jack Dempsey Trophy as Patriot League player, earning first-team honors was a new field house for the athletic program. outstanding athlete on the American University in 2005 and 2007, and a second-team pick in However, on Jan. 15, 2003, the basketball floor campus. Off the court, Bart pursued a career 2006. Ingram sits sixth on American’s career in Bender Arena was renamed in honor of him. in the Navy flying fighter planes and working scoring list with 1,655 points and is among AU’s His widow and family was on hand to celebrate for the Naval Air Transport Service. A native top all-time 3-point shooters. He was also the the unveiling of the Stafford H. “Pop” Cassell Washingtonian, his presence on campus will not Patriot League Rookie of the Year in 2004. basketball floor. be forgotten.

2008, 2009, 2014 Patriot League Champions 4 Hall of FAME 54 points against Evansville. Jones was an William Mason ’66 outstanding free throw shooter with records in Inducted 1985 free throw attempts in a season (256), career (814) and free throws made in a season (204). Bill Mason was In his senior year, he became AU’s most prolific a four-year scorer and was named a NCAA college division letterwinner on the First Team All-American. Also, Jones was basketball team invited to the 1960 and 1964 U.S. Olympic team and was a starting tryouts. Jones is one of only two players in AU forward during the history to have their jerseys retired. 1964-65 season. He was the 1966 Bruce R. Kessler, Sr. ’29 recipient of the Inducted 1969 Stafford H. Cassell Bruce Kessler Award and named was a member the AU Business School’s top scholar-athlete. E. Leroy Ishman ’51 of American Most notably, Bill was the starting centerfielder Inducted 1995 University’s first on AU’s baseball team from 1962-66. He set “Ish” played basketball team. both the single season and career records for basketball during Kessler joined batting average, home runs, runs batted in and his years at AU and the Eagles for the slugging percentage. In 1966 Bill became AU’s was known for his inaugural 1926-27 first-ever player selected in the Major League great ball-handling season. Baseball draft, being selected by the New York skills and fierce Yankees. competitiveness George William Olsen on the court. Robert W. Lamon ’50 Inducted 1971 He was the first Inducted 1972 player to reach George William 1,200 points and Bob was an expert Olsen led the remains on the all- ball handler on Eagles to an time scoring list in AU history with 1,371. As a the basketball overall record of freshman, he scored 238 points and was chosen court and was 42-24 in his four for the Mason-Dixon Conference Tournament known as one of years at American, team. In his junior year, he was captain of the the best set-shot including posting varsity squad and was again chosen to the artists in the city a 12-2 record Conference and All-District teams. Ish had very of Washington. during his senior large hands, which helped him lead his team in In 1948, he was season. rebounds and assists during his senior year. placed on the Washington William S. Jones ’64 Star’s All-District College second squad. He was part of the 1949 Franklin A. Ross ’87 Inducted 1971 Inducted 2007 William S. Jones Mason-Dixon Conference Team, averaging 10 (1957-60) ranks points per game as the Eagles went 16-8 that Frank Ross fourth all-time year. is one of the in points with best basketball 1,982 and is on players to ever many top 10 lists don an Eagles in the offensive uniform. He ranks categories. In in the top-10 1960, Jones set in 12 separate an NCAA Division statistical II Tournament categories, game record with including fifth all-

2008, 2009, 2014 Patriot League Champions 5 Hall of FAME time in career scoring with 1,921 points. In his his team went 15-8 and advanced all the way to general manager of the New York Knicks. During senior season, he finished ranked eighth in the the Mason- Dixon Conference title game before Tapscott’s reign with New York, the Knicks made nation with a 25.3 points per game average, the losing 65-62 to Loyola Maryland in overtime. two trips to the NBA Finals (1994 and 1999) and second-highest scoring average in school history. Schulze also served as an athletic director at advanced to at least the second round of the His 86 three-pointers in his senior season - the American University. playoffs every year. In addition, Tapscott worked first in which the NCAA implemented the three- in the front office of the Milwaukee Bucks, point line - stood as the school record for 21 years Oscar H. Sells ’33 Phoenix Suns and Charlotte Bobcats. before Garrison Carr drained over 100 triples in Inducted 1973 back-to-back seasons. Ross was drafted by the Oscar Sells led Wilbur Thomas ’75 Philadelphia 76ers in the fifth round (108th pick) the Eagles to an Inducted 2003 of the 1987 National Basketball Association overall record of Wilbur was a draft. He also participated in free agent camp 43-20 in his four basketball star for the Washington Bullets prior to the 1988 years at American. on a team that NBA season. Ross graduated from American The team also went 53-25 during University in 1987, with his Bachelor of Arts in tallied only four one of the most Communications. losses in his final successful eras two seasons. in AU basketball Sells received his history. AU Ray Ruhling ‘68 bachelor’s from the participated in Inducted 2020 College of Arts and Sciences in 1933 and went the NIT in 1973 An Eagle standout on to receive his master’s from the College of for the first time in the 60s, Ruhling Arts and Sciences in 1934. ever and regularly scored 1,105 beat teams like Georgetown, St. John’s, George career points Ed Tapscott ’80 Washington and Temple. Wilbur had great which still ranks Inducted 2006 basketball talent, but it was his toughness that eighth among Ed Tapscott began made him a stand-out player. He set freshman three-year players his coaching career and sophomore records for scoring during the and 27th overall. as an assistant 1971-73 seasons. As a freshman he averaged He was named to coach at American 28.6 points per game, netting 48 in one contest. the 1968 Metro University under As a sophomore, he averaged 23.9 points Collegiate All- former Maryland per game, including a 26 point effort against Star Team, the head coach Gary Louisville in AU’s first appearance as a Division 1967 Governor’s Classic All-Tournament Team Williams. Tapscott I squad. Thomas is fourth in career scoring and was a 1967 All Mid-Atlantic Conference spent four seasons average (19.8), eighth in all-time scoring (1,543) honorable mention selection. Ruhling hit 82.4 as Williams’ and seventh in all-time rebounding (803). percent of his free throws, a mark which still assistant, helping ranks in the top 15 all-time in program history. the Eagles amass John Wakefield ’50 As a junior, he averaged 20 points per game to 72 wins, including a school-record 24 wins in the Inducted 1973 rank among the top 50 in the country. Overall in 1980-81 season. During his time as an assistant John Wakefield his career, Ruhling averaged 16 points per game. coach, Tapscott graduated from AU’s prestigious led the Eagles Washington College of Law in 1980. In 1982, to the Mason- Hugo “Dutch” Schulze ’41 Tapscott was elevated to AU’s head coach. In Dixon Conference Inducted 1969 eight seasons, Tapscott finished with 109 wins, Championships Hugo “Dutch” the third-most in school history (behind AU Hall during his Schulze took of Fame namesake Stafford Cassell and Jeff senior season, over as coach Jones). Tapscott’s best seasons were his first where American of the American (1982-83) and last (1989-90), when he went 20- defeated Loyola basketball 10 and 20-9, respectively. (Md.), 55-54, program in 1952. to earn its first Schulze had the After Tapscott left AU, he went on to become conference most success in vice president of player personnel and basketball championship since the 1945-46 season. The his first season as operations and served as interim president and team posted an overall record of 70-39 in his four

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years at American, and went 23-3 in the Mason- and work hard and was very popular with his who finished his career with 2,056 total points. Dixon conference in his final two seasons. teammates. He had 1,632 career points. He also developed American’s all-time assists leader, Gordon Austin ’84, who finished his Kermit A. Washington ’73 Dickie Wells ’65 career with 691 assists. A big part of Williams’ Inducted 1985 Inducted 2012 legacy is the list of assistants who went on to Simply one of Dickie Wells’ successful careers including Fran Dunphy, Ed the greatest in impact on Tapscott and Chris Knoche. Williams finished NCAA history, American his coaching career with 668 wins and a 2002 Kermit is credited University men’s National Championship with the Maryland with putting AU basketball is still Terrapins. basketball on apparent when the national map looking through Jimmy Williams ‘56 Inducted 2000 with a prolific the record books. career with the He is second all- Jimmy Williams Eagles. In 1972- time at American took over as the 73, he had one with 1,184 career head coach at of the greatest seasons in NCAA history, as rebounds and sixth and eighth with 433 and American at the he became the last player to average 20 points 412 rebounds in a single season, respectively. start of the 1962- and 20 rebounds per game. He earned 1973 He also ranks third with 16 free throws made 63 season after Associated Press First Team All-America honors in a single game at Towson. Wells was the spending several while leading the nation in rebounding for the first Eagle to receive All-America honors when seasons as second consecutive season. Following the he was named a Little College All-America a assistant season, Washington was selected as the fourth Honorable Mention in 1958. He was also named coach for the pick in the NBA draft. He currently holds every an NCAA College Division Honorable Mention Eagles. Williams American rebounding record. Washington was in 1960. Wells was the first African-American graduated from also an Academic All-American in 1972 and player at American and the Mason-Dixon American after lettering in basketball and 1973 respectively. His AU accomplishments Conference. baseball. His best season as a basketball coach include being 10th all-time in scoring despite was his first when he led the Eagles to a record playing only three years (1,467), third in scoring Gary Williams of 10-14. Williams was also the golf coach at average (20.1) and first in rebounds (1,478). Inducted 2012 American and guided his team to the Mason- He is also ninth on the free throws made list Dixon Conference crown. with 313. Kermit’s uniform is displayed in the Gary Williams Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. posted an overall among other stellar basketball legends. record of 72-42 in four seasons Frank Weiss ’58 at the helm of Inducted 1999 the program from Perhaps the finest 1978 to 1982. He ball player to take led American to the hardcourt at two consecutive American was 20-win seasons, Frank Weiss. the first since In his years at the 1959-1960 AU, 1955-58, he season. The Eagles earned two National became one of Invitational Tournament berths and went to the the Eagles’ most ECC Championships in all four seasons under potent scorers. Williams. Frank came from Brooklyn, N.Y., where he was a member of the During his time at American, he coached three 1954 Lafayette High Championship basketball 1,000 point scorers including American’s second team. Frank Weiss was known to always hustle all-time leading scorer, Russell “Boo” Bowers,

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