In 1950, Cooper, a Pittsburgh resident and Duquesne University graduate became the first African-American selected in the NBA Draft.
In 1904, Edwin B. Henderson showed up at Harvard University’s Summer School of Arts and Sciences to learn how to be a gym teacher. The renovated court at Hemenway where Henderson learned basket-ball. Hemenway Gymnasium exterior. The courses were still being taught by Dudley Allen Sargent, the leader of the physical fitness movement in America. [...]
Basketball was in Boston long before the Celtics. Hemenway Gymnasium today. The roots of the sport (especially among black folks) trace back to the Hemenway Gymnasium on the campus of Harvard University, and a guy named Dudley Allen Sargent. I’d known about it but never seen the Hemenway Gym until I stumbled upon it this [...]
I was at the game last night. The Celtics won. Makes sense. Green has never been more “in” than this year. As I predicted, the Battle of Bunker Hill anniversary (233 years ago, yesterday) really did play a role. The Celtics did after all “see the whites o’ their eyes.” But unlike Colonel Prescott’s men, [...]
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