Marshall University Athletics
Marshall Athletics Hall of Fame
- Induction:
- 1986
- Class:
- 1957
Playing alongside some of the greatest basketball players in Marshall history, Cebert Price stands out as the only Marshall player to receive first team All-Mid-American Conference honors three different seasons. Recruited to Marshall by Cam Henderson from South Charleston High School along with teammate Paul Underwood, that pair – known as the “Gold Dust Twins” – helped Henderson’s final Marshall team log an 18-4 record in the 1954-55 season. The following season, the first under Henderson protégé Jule Rivlin, Marshall won its only Mid-American Conference title and received the school’s first NCAA Tournament berth, with 18-5 overall mark and 10-2 record in league play. In Price’s three seasons with the Marshall varsity, the Thundering Herd had an overall record of 53-18.
The 6-foot-2 Price was called by Rivlin “the best middleman in Marshall history.” Longtime Huntington sportswriter Ernie Salvatore called Price “the best ballhandler Marshall has ever had.” Price averaged 23.6 points per game as a sophomore, receiving first-team All-MAC honors, a feat he duplicated the next two years as he averaged 21.3 and 19.3 points per game as a junior and senior. Overall, Price scored 1,449 points in his career, an average of 21.3 points per game, and he received honorable mention All-American honors as a senior. Price also played three seasons for the Marshall tennis team.
Following his Marshall career, Price was selected in the sixth round of the 1957 NBA Draft by the Syracuse Nationals, but passed on an NBA career to play for the Kansas City Kaycees and later the Goodyear’s Akron Wingfoots in the National Industrial League. Price was inducted into the Marshall Athletic Hall of Fame in 1986.
