Basketball Player. Best remembered for holding the NCAA single game scoring record from 1954 to 2012, as he scored 113 points in a single game for Rio Grande College vs Hillsdale College. He was nicknamed Bevo after his father who liked to drink a near-beer with that name. Due to illness as a child he entered high school late and was only able to play his junior season at Wellsville High School in southern Ohio, where he led his team to a 31-2 record, before being too old to play high school ball. He followed his high school coach to Rio Grande College in 1952, where he became the star player. His coach designed both the schedule and offense around Bevo. He scored 116 points vs Ashland (Ky) Junior College and ended up the season with 1954 points. However, the NCAA decided that only the games vs full four-year schools should count in the records, erasing the 116 point game from the record books. The following season, to avoid the criticism Rio Grande and Bevo had received for playing a weak schedule, his coach scheduled almost all of their games against full NCAA schools, many on the road. He scored 39 points vs Villanova in an overtime loss in Philadelphia and 41 points as Rio Grande beat Providence in Madison Square Garden. The pinnacle of his career came when he scored 113 against Hillsboro College on February 2, 1954. He was named a second team All-American that year. His 48.3 average in the 1952-1953 season is still the NAIA record. In 1953-1954, he set the then NCAA record for scoring average at 46.5 points per game as well as single game marks for both free throws and field goals in the Hillsboro win. He lost his eligibility after that season due to academics, but he also left school as he had a young family to support. He barnstormed with the Boston Whirlwinds, one of the Harlem Globetrotters' designated opponents, for three years, and also played in the Eastern League, but turned down a chance to play for the Philadelphia Warriors of the NBA in 1956. He then worked at a steel mill in Ohio until his retirement. He was the subject of an ESPN Sports Century documentary.