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El vintage de Flagrant: John McLendon un doble Hall of Fame

El vintage de Flagrant: John McLendon un doble Hall of Fame

Como oís, aun suena Edith Piaff de fondo y eso en este podcast solo puede significar una cosa, y esa cosa es que llegamos al vintage, ese lugar donde contamos cosas sobre viejas glorias o donde contamos curiosidades históricas.

fuente kuhistory.com John McLendon coleccionando títulos y reconocimientos

La pasada semana, en un vintage peculiar, contamos la historia del partido secreto, ese que se…

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The Forgotten Coach TRAILER   (via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGghc9mnzMc)

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Fast Break: The Legendary John McLendon, is a documentary about the life and legacy of coach John McLendon. It is presented by the Broken Fence Film Ranch, Rockhaven Films and Level Club productions. It is directed by award-winning Director, Kevin Willmott.

Inspired by the award winning biography, “Breaking Through: John B. McLendon, Basketball Legend and Civil Rights Pioneer,” by Milton S. Katz, the film reviews the life of this remarkable African-American Kansas Citian, the first black student at the University of Kansas to earn his degree in physical education and study under and be mentored by the inventor of basketball, Dr. James Naismith. A legendary basketball coach, McLendon was also a pioneer, supreme innovator, teacher, and consummate gentleman who not only was the first African-American coach to be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame, but along the way waged a successful fight to break down barriers of racial segregation in college and professional athletics.

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The following is an excerpt from the e-book The Crossover: A Brief History of Basketball and Race, from James Naismith to LeBron James ...

This is GREAT!  Basketball historians and junkies will love this.....

Dick Barnett has called me several times this past year to let me know that he has been working with the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame to include Coach John McLendon as a Coach, as well as Contributor to the Hall of Fame.  As such, McLendon will now be inducted for a second time.....this time with the Coach designation.  Well done, Dick Barnett (technically, it’s Dr. Barnett)....and very well-deserved, Coach John McLendon.

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Great piece of basketball history within this video....

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Shaquille O'Neal, Allen Iverson lead 2016 Basketball Hall of Fame class

One of the most star-studded classes in HOF history was announced on Monday.

Coach John McLendon and player Zelmo Beaty to be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame.  Coach McLendon Coached at North Carolina A&T and Kentucky State, but is most famous for leading Tennessee A&I to three straight NAIB National Championships (1957, 1958 and 1959).  The 1957 National Championship represented the first collegiate National Championship won by a historically black school.  Zelmo Beaty was a star at Prairie View A&M, and later in the NBA (St. Louis Hawks) and ABA (Utah Stars).

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The Secret Game

On a Sunday morning in March 1944, most of Durham, North Carolina, was in church. That's the way basketball coach John McLendon wanted it when his all-black college team from North Carolina Central University (then the North Carolina College for Negroes) faced off against an all-white team from Duke University’s medical school. The game would be the first interracial college basketball game in the Jim Crow South, and it had to be kept a secret. McLendon even locked the doors behind the teams... "McLendon is the most important person in basketball that no one has ever heard of," Ellsworth said. McLendon revved up the fast break, used a full-court press before anyone else and had his players run as part of their training before it was common practice, Ellsworth said. As a result, the North Carolina College Eagles became the highest scoring college basketball team in the world.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McLendon

John McLendon     Coaching career (HC unless noted) 1941–1952 1953–1954 1955–1959 1961–1962 1964–1966 1967–1969 1969 North Carolina College for Negroes Hampton Institute Tennessee State A&I University Cleveland Pipers (ABL) Kentucky State Cleveland State Denver Rockets (ABA) Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 1979 College Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2007

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“Naismith was a very religious person, very liberal in his thinking, and a pure humanitarian, but for him to take McLendon under his wing I think was pretty extraordinary,” Katz told me. “The fact that [McLendon] was the first African-American student in the PE program really meant a lot to Naismith. In that way, the color of his skin really did matter, and it was a positive thing.”