Raymond J. Barbuti (Football/Track & Field)
Barbuti earned three letters each in football and track and was captain of the 1927 gridders and the 1928 cindermen. He was NCAA champion in the 200 and 440 yard races and was a member of SU's IC4A and Penn Relay mile relay championship teams. But his greatest glory was to come in the '28 Olympics where he won two gold medals (400-meter run and as a member of the 1600-meter relay team), the only American to cop two in track and field.
He entered the Army in World War II as a private and emerged as a major, serving in the European and China-Burma-India theaters, receiving the Air Medal, Bronze Star and a Presidential Unit Citation. Barbuti is presently deputy director of the N.Y.S. Civil Defense Commission. He officiated at more than 500 varsity and bowl football games and in 1963 was elected to the Helms Foundation Hall of Fame.
He entered the Army in World War II as a private and emerged as a major, serving in the European and China-Burma-India theaters, receiving the Air Medal, Bronze Star and a Presidential Unit Citation. Barbuti is presently deputy director of the N.Y.S. Civil Defense Commission. He officiated at more than 500 varsity and bowl football games and in 1963 was elected to the Helms Foundation Hall of Fame.
