In the mid- to late 1930s, Tennessee Vols sports fans were getting treated to more than just the outstanding football teams of coach Bob Neyland. UT men’s basketball was also finding itself a ...
From the early 1930s to the mid-1950s, Bobby Grund owned and managed Black basketball teams at a time when African-American players were not allowed to play on white teams. He led a barnstorming team ...
SPENCER — The penny-sized gold basketball with two careful inscriptions — “1933” and “N.C. State” — was a precious artifact to the late railroad man Herman Brown, and so that tiny ball also became ...
WASHINGTON, Ind. – They’re staring at us, and they’re not smiling. Sullen, you’d call the look they’re giving us from the grave. Ninety years ago they made history, these 10 boys from Washington High ...
The name was Harrison B. Fitch. He was Harry to those who knew him well, "Honey" to those who watched him play football, baseball or basketball at Hillhouse High in New Haven. And Honey Fitch it was ...
BELOIT — The School District of Beloit Board of Education has approved forming a committee to consider naming the Beloit Memorial High School basketball floor to honor a 1930s basketball star. Johnny ...
BELOIT — A committee of basketball fans, School District of Beloit officials and board members will meet Monday night to recommend naming the Beloit Memorial basketball floor after 1930s basketball ...