Samuel Perrin, ’31  •  Basketball, Football

Born in Belle Fourche, South Dakota, Sam Perrin graduated from Huron (S.D.) High School in 1927, having lettered in basketball, football and track. Entering Carleton in the fall of 1927, he soon was recognized as one of the College’s finest two-sport athletes. Perrin was a three-year starter in both football and basketball in an era when it was out of the ordinary for an underclassman to even win a varsity letter. An end on C.J. Hunt’s strong football teams, it was in basketball where he was to earn his greatest fame. Perrin was a forward on three of Ozzie Cowles’ teams which went undefeated at home and were also undefeated in Midwest Conference play. The 1928-29 team was 12-3, losing only to Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Grinnell; the 1929-30 team went 14-2, losing to Wisconsin and Chicago; and the 1930-31 five, which he captained, was 13-3, falling only to Northwestern, Illinois, and Minnesota. Those teams rang up 20 consecutive Sayles-Hill victories and 23 straight Conference wins. Invariably Carleton’s leading scorer, Perrin was named to the All-Midwest team at the end of the 1930 and 1931 seasons.

Following a year of graduate work at the University of Minnesota, Perrin returned to Carleton for the 1932-33 year to be freshman coach and a laboratory assistant in biology, his undergraduate major. The following year, he accepted an appointment as football, basketball and track coach at Shattuck School in Faribault.

 

Michael Armacost, ’58  •  Basketball, Baseball

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Mike Armacost grew up in Redlands, California. At Redlands Union High School, he was an exceptional student, athlete and leader. Captain of the basketball team, he also competed in football, swimming, tennis and track, and was elected President of the Senior Class.

At Carleton, Armacost confined his athletic efforts primarily to basketball and baseball, starting every game in those sports for three consecutive years. Twice All-Conference in both sports, he captained both teams, led the basketball team to the Midwest Conference title in 1957-58, and the baseball team to the Conference crown in 1957. One of the leading scorers in Carleton basketball history with 1,045 points over three seasons, his steady play is reflected in his year-by-year scoring totals of 354, 346, and 345 points. Winner of the Mattson Award in basketball, he took occasional time off in the spring to high jump, and usually win, in home dual meets, and in the fall of 1957 in his only try as a harrier, he placed 11th in the Conference cross country meet. President of Men’s League, he was also elected President of his graduating class.

 

Everett Dean  •  Basketball and Baseball Coach

Everett Dean is no stranger to Halls of Fame. At the time of his election into the College Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame, he was already a member of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, the Helms Foundation Hall of Fame and the Indiana State Hall of Fame. And, when so honored by his baseball colleagues, he was the only college coach to have been elected in both basketball and baseball.

An outstanding athlete at Indiana University from 1917 to 1921, Dean starred in football, baseball, and basketball. In the latter, he was named All-Big Ten and All-American center, and he also won the prestigious Big Ten Medal for proficiency in scholarship and athletics.

Dean coached only three years at Carleton (1921-24), but left behind an almost incredible record: two Midwest Conference championships in basketball, with season records of 14-2, 17-2, and 14-0, and a Conference crown in baseball.

Returning to Indiana University in 1924, he coached there for fourteen years, winning three Big Ten titles in basketball and three in baseball. From there he went to Stanford, and in 1942 he brought the State of California its first NCAA basketball title. Named baseball coach in 1950, his Standford teams promptly won two California Intercollegiate Baseball crowns, one Pacific Coast Conference championship and played in the College World Series in 1953.

Few other coaches can boast of having more than 30 former players rise to become head college coaches in basketball or baseball. Included are such names as Forddy Anderson (Bradley and Michigan State), Ernie Andres (Indiana), Branch McCracken (Indiana), Jim Pollard (LaSalle), Howie Dallmar (Stanford), and Carleton’s own Ozzie Cowles ’22 (Dartmouth, Michigan, and Minnesota) and Joe Hutton ’24 (Hamline).

The man called “The Gentleman Coach” by his friends and colleagues has also devoted much time to the Indiana University Alumni Association, of which he was President in 1969. He has also been President of the “I” Men’s Association and a member of the Indiana University Distinguished Alumni Service Club.