Ronald Warner, Gettysburg College
Basketball – Class of 1962
Ronald Warner is arguably the greatest basketball player to don the Orange and Blue. Warner set the program's all-time scoring record with 1,880 points in only three years (stood until 2011). He led the MAC in scoring in 1959-60 (23.1 ppg) and 1961-62 (25.3 ppg), and he was named All-MAC Second Team in 1959-60 and All-MAC First Team in both 1960-61 and 1961-62.
Warner finished among the nation's top 20 scorers all three seasons, including 10th in 1960-61 (24.9 ppg). He was a unanimous All-State and All-East selection in his final two campaigns. He garnered honorable mention All-America in each of his last two years. He was also named second team "Small All-America" in 1961-62 as one of the nation's top players under six feet tall. He was voted most valuable visiting player in the city of Philadelphia in 1961-62, despite not playing on the Palestra floor. Warner was tagged to All-Opponent teams by La Salle, Lehigh, Lafayette, Bucknell, Elizabethtown, F&M, Lebanon Valley, and Dickinson during his senior year.
Warner finished his collegiate career holding 17 Gettysburg records. He also averaged 6.8 rebounds and shot 50.9 percent from the floor during his varsity career (stats not kept for assists or steals). In his one season on the JV team, averaged 27.6 points per game, raising his four-year collegiate total to 2,471 points. He scored a career-high 38 points on four occasions and registered more than a dozen 30-point efforts during his career. Warner led Bullets to a three-year record of 52-25 in the MAC University Division.
Warner became a member of the Gettysburg College Hall of Athletic Honor in 1978.
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