Hall of Fame
BRAD CARSON '97 was a three-year letterman on the defensive line for the Rhode Island football team from 1983-85. The North Kingstown, R.I. native played both nose guard and defensive tackle, earning first-team All-Yankee Conference and second-team All-New England honors as a senior in 1985. Carson had 58 tackles and a sack in his senior year and 46 tackles and three sacks as a junior in 1984. He helped the Rams to back-to-back Yankee Conference and two berths in the NCAA playoffs in 1984 and 1985. The Rams finished with identical 10-3 records in both his junior and senior seasons and were ranked as high as No. 2 nationally. Rhode Island reached the Division I-AA semifinals in 1984 and the quarterfinals in 1985 and was named I-AA ECAC Team of the Year in both seasons. They also won the Lambert Cup in both 1984 and 1985, which encompasses I-AA teams from the Eastern and Mid-Atlantic regions. Carson was part of a defense that was second in the Yankee Conference in passing defense in 1985. He starred as an offensive and defensive lineman at nearby North Kingstown High, earning all-division and all-county honors as a junior and senior. Carson, who lives in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., works as a manufacturing representative in air conditioning/refrigeration field. He is still involved with the Rhode Island Football Fifth Quarter/105 Club. Carson has been ranked as high as No. 1 regionally and nationally in martial arts/wrestling.
