Castleton

Spartans

Twenty years after graduation, John Young ’68 still holds 15 Castleton basketball records, including total career points(1810) and points per game (29.7). In a single game in his senior year, he scored 56 points, still a record. Despite numerous 30 and 40-point performances by Young, the Castleton teams of the late 1960s were less powerful than later teams. But Young –six feet, five inches, rail thin, and a superlative athlete –filled Glenbrook Gymnasium to capacity. At a time when soccer and baseball were recognized as Castleton’s foremost men’s sports, Young showed the future could hold exciting basketball as well