One of the all-time greats of the Fordham men's basketball program, Charlie Yelverton is among the school's all-time leading scoring and rebounding leaders with 1,372 points and 690 boards across his three varsity seasons.

Yelverton led the 1970-71 Rams to as high as no. 9 in the Associated Press poll and were ranked in the top 20 for more than half the season. Individually, Yelverton won the Haggerty Award as the New York Metropolitan Area's top player and earned Honorable Mention All-American accolades from the AP after averaging 23.3 points and 12.0 rebounds per game.  His 676 points in 1970-71 rank as the second-highest single-season total in program history behind teammate Ken Charles, who scored 679 two years later.

After graduation, he played 69 games for the Portland Trail Blazers in 1971-72, averaging 7.9 points per outing.  He then went on to have a wildly successful 15-year professional career in Europe, highlighted by the 1975 EuroLeague title with Ignis Va