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He was also a one-time member of the Harlem Globetrotters. He was a 1954 graduate of Jackson State College (now Jackson State University). In 1956, he was one of 56 players invited to tryout for the 1956 United States men's Olympic basketball team. Of the six Black players that tried out, he was the only one from a historically Black college.
Sanders later gained fame when in 1974 he joined the Harlem Globetrotters in which he played for 17 years, retiring from the team in 1991. Since then Sanders become head basketball coach at Bonner Academy in Raleigh and also was head coach for two years with the Raleigh Cougars of the United States Basketball League (USBL).
The Super Globetrotters is a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions.It premiered on NBC on September 22, 1979, and ran for 13 episodes.
Wheeler joined the Harlem Globetrotters in 1950 and spent several years with them. Wheeler married educator Betty McNeal, daughter of Theodore McNeal, the first African American to serve in the Missouri Senate, and a union organizer and activist. Wheeler died in St. Louis, Missouri in 1989 at age 65. References
In the summer of 1958, he joined the Detroit Stars baseball team in the Negro leagues, along with his former Harlem Globetrotters teammate Reece "Goose" Tatum. In 1961, he was coaxed out of retirement by the Chicago Majors of the fledgling American Basketball League (ABL). After the league folded at the end of 1962, the 40-year-old Clifton ...
Russell Ellington (February 4, 1938 – September 1, 2007) was an American basketball coach. He served as the head basketball coach at Savannah State College—now known as Savannah State University—from 1976 to 1984 and Morris Brown College from 1997 to 2000, compiling a career college basketball coaching record of 181–141.
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