Tag Archives: Blackbirds
Charley Jones
Charley Jones (College basketball. Born, Brooklyn, NY, July 17, 1975.) Since 1948, when official records began, only eight men have led the nation’s major college players in scoring in successive years. One of them is Charles Rahmel Jones of L.I.U., the national collegiate scoring leader in 1996-97 and 1997-98. Jones came out of Brooklyn’s Bishop […]
Clair Bee
Clair Bee (College basketball. Born, March 2, 1896, Grafton, WV; died, May 20, 1983, Cleveland, OH) After a multi-sport athletic career at Waynesburg (Penna.) College, Clair F. Bee was hired by the then-new Long Island University as virtually a one-man athletic department. Without a staff, he coached and organized teams in all major sports. But […]
