Wesley Walker Bradshaw (1961) - Baylor Athletics Hall of Fame

Wesley Walker Bradshaw

Induction:
1961
Class:
1923

WESLEY WALKER BRADSHAW, Athens, Texas (Football, 1921-22; Baseball, 1922; Basketball, 1922-23) – 1961

A three-sport standout, Bradshaw was a transfer from Burleson College who made the most of his two years at Baylor, earning All-Southwest Conference honors as a junior and senior and setting a career scoring record that stood for 58 years.

After scoring a single-season record 119 points in 1921, he was the team captain the next year and helped the Bears finish 8-3 and win the conference championship. The 182 points he scored in two seasons stood as the record until it was broken by Robert Bledsoe in 1980.

Nicknamed “Rabbit” for his elusive running style, Bradshaw also lettered in baseball and basketball and played two years of pro football with the Rock Island Independents and Buffalo Rangers. A coach on the high school and college level, Bradshaw was inducted in the Texas Sports Hall of Fame in 1966.

Riding on the bus as a guest of the Baylor basketball coach in January 1927, Bradshaw survived the “Immortal Ten” bus-train crash that killed 10 students and injured five others. He died in 1960 and was posthumously inducted in the Baylor Hall of Fame the next year.