Reaves Baysinger was a reserve center on the Syracuse basketball team for one year. He was a gifted athlete and was a quarterback on the varsity football team, lettering in 1944.

Baysinger would transfer to the Naval Academy in 1945. He would be a star quarterback at Annapolis and earned the nickname 'Iceman' for this play. He also was a pitcher on the Naval Academy baseball team.

Baysinger would graduate from Annapolis in 1949. He would serve in both the Korean War and Vietnam with the U.S. Navy, earning a bronze star for combat valor in the latter. He would achieve the rank of Captain, before passing away in 1972 at the age of 45.

Baysinger was the son of legendary Syracuse athlete Reaves 'Ribs' Baysinger.

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