Charley Hyatt (2019) - Pitt Athletics Hall of Fame

Charley Hyatt

Induction:
2019
Class:
1930

Hyatt is one of Pitt basketball's greatest players who starred during one of the program's most successful periods. During his three seasons (1927-30) playing under legendary coach Doc Carlson, Hyatt led the Panthers to a combined 60-7 record while earning All-America stature each year. He scored a then-exceptional 880 points as a collegian. The Helms Foundation twice declared Pitt national champions during his career: 1927-28 following a 21-0 season and 1929-30 after the Panthers posted a 23-2 mark. In Hyatt's final season, he led the nation with a 12.6 scoring average and was named the Helms Foundation Player of the Year. Hyatt is enshrined in the Helms Athletic Foundation Basketball Hall of Fame and also was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1959.