Rudy D'Emilio

Rudy D'Emilio is a former basketball player known for his college career with the Duke Blue Devils.

Biography Rudy D'Emilio was born in 1931 or 1932, and grew up in Port Richmond, a neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Duke won the 1953 Dixie Classic under D'Emilio's captaincy. D'Emilio scored 66 points across the three games of the tournament, second only to Don Lange of Navy, and was named as the tournament's most valuable player and to the all-Classic first team. That Duke squad also won the 1953–54 ACC regular season title and finished with a 21–6 record. but was not ultimately signed to the team. In 1954, he was signed to join the college All-Americans as part of the Boston Whirlwinds, a traveling team that played against the Harlem Globetrotters.

He spent two years in the U.S. Army. In 1970, he became the coach of the St. Thomas Aquinas High School basketball team in Edison, New Jersey. He coached there for seven seasons. As of 2015, he was retired and living in Edison.