East Tennessee State University

From 1958 until 1961, Tom Chilton played basketball at ETSU and holds the school single game scoring record with 52 points against Austin-Peay. He also holds the ETSU career scoring average mark of 26.1 points per game. In 1961, Chilton averaged a school record 32.1 points a game, second in the nation, and earned All-American honors. About twenty years after playing at ETSU, Chilton returned as he was inducted into the ETSU Athletic Hall of Fame in 1980.