The all-time leading scorer in Rutgers-Camden men’s basketball history with 2,110 points and a 24.3 average, Bill Bramble also holds school records for field goals (839), field goal attempts (2,012), free throws (432) and free throw attempts (580). His 602 points and 136 free throws during the 1967-68 season both rank second on the school’s single-season lists, while his 81.0 free throw percentage that season ranks third. He also set the single-season mark with a 28.7 scoring average that year, helping him earn honors as the 1968 Basketball Club of South Jersey Player of the Year.
In addition to the highest single-season scoring average of 28.7, Bramble’s 26.2 average during the 1966-67 season is third among the all-time records and helped Rutgers capture the 1967 Delaware Valley Conference championship. The team also won a DVC title during his freshman season in 1964-65.
Among his other single-season accomplishments, Bramble has the top three seasons for field goal attempts (549 in 1967-68, 512 in 1966-67 and 490 in 1965-66), the fifth-, sixth- and seventh-highest totals of field goals (233 in 1967-68, 223 in 1966-67 and 204 in 1965-66) and the second- and third-highest number of free throws (136 in 1967-68 and 130 in 1966-67).
Bramble scored 30 or more points 16 times in his four-year career. On two occasions he scored 45 points in a game (Feb. 17, 1966 against Salisbury State and Dec. 1, 1966 against Philadelphia Bible), a record that stood until Dan Rucker scored 46 in 1978. Bramble added a 44-point game against Philadelphia Bible on Jan. 4, 1968, giving him three of the top four single-game point totals in program history. In his 45-point effort against Salisbury State, Bramble had 20 field goals, the second-highest total in program history.
Bramble, who attended Camden Catholic High School, captured four All-Delaware Valley Conference honors and was a four-time All-Philadelphia Area Small College player at Rutgers. The team went 62-25 during his four years, the best four-year run in program history.
