Sylvester Coalmon

Played for Hall of Famers Elmer McCall and Jim Powers at South Bend Central 1957…state championship team was the second to finish the season unbeaten…four-year starter with scoring averages that steadily rose from 11.1 as a freshman to 17.3 as a senior…scored 1,169 points despite playing only 10 games as a junior because of a knee injury…enrolled at Northwestern and transferred to Fordham where his brother was a star. Air Force duty interrupted college career and finished at Tennessee Tech, where a recurrence of the knee injury ended playing career went on to a 33-year teaching career at South Bend.