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Taylor's greatest legacy is the iconic Converse All Star shoe that he helped to improve and tirelessly promoted for nearly four decades. Most American basketball players wore Chuck Taylor All Stars between the mid-1920s and the 1970s. Converse All Stars were also the official basketball shoe of the Olympic games from 1936 until 1968.
By the 1950s, Chuck Taylor All Stars had become a standard among high school, collegiate, and professional basketball players. [10]In the 1960s, Converse had captured about 70 to 80 percent of the basketball shoe market, with Converse Chuck Taylor All Stars being worn by ninety percent of professional and college basketball players.
Established in 1939 and later named as an homage to the Chuck Taylor All-Stars, an iconic basketball shoe in the early 20th century, it has been awarded every year with the exceptions of 1944 due to World War II and 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. [1]
Charlie Taylor (footballer, born 1884) (1884–1953), Australian rules footballer for Fitzroy; Charlie Taylor (rugby league) (1921–2013), English rugby league footballer; Chuck Taylor (baseball) (1942–2018), American baseball player; Chuck Taylor (salesman) (1901–1969), American basketball player and shoe salesman
Suzette Maria Taylor (born May 12, 1987) is an American sportscaster for NBC Sports. She has worked for ESPN and the SEC Network . She has covered college football , college volleyball , National Basketball Association (NBA), National Football League (NFL), and men's and women's college basketball .
Kimberly Duane Mulkey is an American college basketball coach and former player. Since 2021, she has been the head coach for Louisiana State University 's women's basketball team . A Pan-American gold medalist in 1983 and Olympic gold medalist in 1984, she is the first coach in NCAA basketball history to win national championships as a player ...
McNutt was born on October 24, 1989, [1] in Suitland, Maryland. [2] She played high school basketball at the Academy of the Holy Cross in the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference, where she averaged more than 11 points per game and led the team in free throw percentage, field goal percentage and three-point field goal percentage.
Chuck Clements (born 1973), American football player; Chuck Cooper (basketball), (1926–1984), American basketball player; Chuck Detwiler (born 1947), American football player; Chuck Dressen (1898–1966), an American third baseman, manager and coach in professional baseball; Chuck Drulis (1918–1972), American football player and coach ...