North Carolina State University Athletics
Berry Inducted Into NC Sports Hall Of Fame
5/18/2000 12:00:00 AM | Football
Logan was a four-time NAIA All-American at WCU in the 1960s and Berry, inducted posthumously, was a four-sport all-star at NC State in the 1930s when the Wolfpack was a member of the Southern Conference.
Also inducted in Wednesday's ceremony in Raleigh was Duke head men's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson, former Big Eight commissioner Carl James and St. Augustine's track and field coach George Williams. Floyd "Pep" Young was also enshrined posthumously.
Berry, who was represented by numerous family members at Wednesday's ceremony, including his son, Connie Mack Berry, Jr., was a virtual one-man athletic program at North Carolina State in the mid-1930s. He was an end on the football team, center on the basketball team, pitcher on the baseball team, and a member of the track team. He led the Southern Conference in basketball scoring in 1936 and 1937 and won all-conference honors in 1936, 1937, and 1938. He went on to play professional football for three NFL teams, including two championship teams, played pro basketball in the National Basketball League, again winning two championships, and played baseball in the summer in the Chicago Cubs farm system.
Logan, a native of Asheville, scored 3,290 points in four seasons (1965-68), averaging 30.7 points a game. He scored 50 points or more six times. He led the nation in scoring during the 1967-68 season, averaging 36.2 per game. Just as significantly, he was the first black basketball player to star at a predominantly white school in the Southeast. A first round draft pick by the Oakland Oaks of the ABA, he played four seasons before serious knee injuries cut his career short.
The North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame, housed in the North Carolina Museum of History, includes 194 members inducted over the past 37 years.
