EMANUEL “MANNY” NEWSOME

Emanuel “Manny” Newsome, a graduate and basketball legend of Gary Roosevelt High School, was a player in the National Basketball Association (NBA).  He was known as one of Western Michigan University's greatest basketball players and student athletes, who later became the first African American administrator at WMU and led a storied career in higher education in Indiana, Ohio and Florida. As a player at WMU from 1960 to 1964, Newsome averaged 32.7 points per game as a three-year varsity player. Newsome finished his career at WMU with 1,787 points. He broke the scoring record by more than 500 points in 1964, and that record held for more than 45 years. During part of his senior year, he was the leading scorer in the nation. Some of Newsome's achievements include being selected First Team All Mid-American Conference during his sophomore, junior and senior years, and being chosen as a member of the All-America Basketball Team for 1963-1964 by the National Association of Basketball Coaches. In 1964, Newsome was a member of the U.S. Olympic Trials Basketball Team. Newsome was inducted into the Western Michigan University Basketball Hall of Fame in 1974, the Mid-American Conference Basketball Hall of Fame in 1988 and the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in 1994.