HALL OF HONOR
“Eppy” Barnes was appointed Director of Physical Education and Athletics at Colgate in 1955. A graduate of Colgate in 1922, he became the third athletic director in the college’s history, following in the footsteps of Dr. Ellery C. Huntington and William A. Reid. He was the first Director of Athletics to serve as president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, 1965-67. He was a past president of the United States Baseball Federation and of the Eastern Intercollegiate Football Association, a founder and first president of the Eastern College Athletic Conference, of the ICAAAA and of the Ice Hockey Association of America. He has served as chairman of the NCAA Olympic Baseball Committee and was a leader in attempts to improve relations with professional baseball. He also was Director of the United States Olympic Committee and chairman of the Transportation Committee for the 1968 Games. One of Colgate’s outstanding baseball and basketball players, he played with the Pittsburgh Pirates in the late twenties. He left a career in business and banking to return to his alma mater in 1939 as baseball coach and assistant athletic director. “Eppy” was a member of the American Association of Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame and The United Savings-Helms Athletic Foundation Hall of Fame.
