Billy Eisemann was a star athlete at Syracuse, as a starting center on the basketball team for three seasons, and the starting catcher for the baseball team for three years. He also played on the freshman football team.

Big Billl Eisemann was the center on the 1926 National Championship team, along with fellow sophomore Stan Richtmeyer. Eisemann was the starting center for all of his junior season (except for a couple of games he started at forward). He had developed into a dominating player, with strong offensive skills, and was the second leading scorer on the team.

He was the team captain his senior season, until ruled academically ineligible in February of that season.

Following graduation, Eisemann played professional basketball with Vic Hanson's Syracuse All-Americans. He signed a professional baseball contract with the New York Yankee organization and played catcher in the minor leagues at Atlanta, Albany, and Birmingham.

Eisemann died at the young age of 48 in 1953.

[Statistics missing for 3 games in the 1925-26 season, 9 games in 1927-28, annotated by the +]

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