Charles D. Hyatt Jr. (February 28, 1908 – May 8, 1978) was a collegiate basketball player in the late 1920s. The

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native played three seasons at

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under coach Clifford Carlson (1927–30). An exceptional shooter, Hyatt scored then-outstanding 880 points throughout his college career. He was named an All-American three consecutive times, and additionally Helms Foundation

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in 1930, when he led the nation in scoring with 12.6 ppg. After his college career, Hyatt played AAU basketball, and later coached in the

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. Hyatt was inducted into the Helms Athletic Foundation Hall of Fame, the

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in its inaugural class in 1959, and the

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in its inaugural class of 2006. In 2019, Charley Hyatt was posthumously inducted into the Pitt Athletics Hall of Fame.

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