RIO GRANDE, Ohio — Clarence “Bevo” Francis, the college basketball player who set records for high-scoring when he played at Ohio’s Rio Grande College in the 1950s, has died. He was 82.
Francis died Wednesday at his southern Ohio home, William Roberts of Roberts Funeral Home confirmed Thursday.
The Hammondsville native put Rio Grande College on the sports map when he scored an NCAA single-game record of 113 points against Michigan’s Hillsdale College on Feb. 2, 1954. He also had scored 116 points against Kentucky’s Ashland Junior College in 1953, a record that was retroactively erased after the NCAA announced it would only recognize games played against four-year, degree-granting institutions.