Black Basketball's Direct Link To Hemenway Gymnasium In Boston (Part II)

On June 20, 2008, in History, Premium, by Black Fives

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. [...]

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Basketball Traces Back To Hemenway Gymnasium In Boston (Part I)

On June 19, 2008, in History, Premium, by Black Fives

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 [...]

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