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The ABL played three more seasons and then, with only five teams playing at the end of 1930–31, folded during the Great Depression. [1] After more than two years, the league was reorganized in 1933, but as an East Coast league, with teams in Pennsylvania and New York City metro area. [1] The league did take some measures to help modernize the ...
Saperstein revolutionized the game of basketball and took the Globetrotters from an unknown team touring small farm towns in the Midwestern United States during the height of the Great Depression to a powerhouse that went on to beat the best team in the all-white National Basketball Association. [3]
The first great European event was held in 1919 in Joinville-le-Pont, near Paris, during the Inter-Allied Games. United States, led by future Hall of Fame player Max Friedman, won against Italy and France, and then Italy beat France. Basketball soon became popular among French and Italians.
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NOTES: (1) The Southern Conference was founded in February 1921 during the 1920–21 season, but its first season of basketball competition was the 1921–22 season.(2) The University of Virginia did not adopt a nickname for its basketball team ("Cavaliers") until the 1923–24 season.
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The strategy backfired as game attendance plummeted and, further deflated by the Great Depression, the ABL folded after the 1931 season. During the 1926–27 season, the team replaced the Brooklyn Arcadians after five games and took the name Brooklyn Celtics .
Seabiscuit was a legendary American racehorse whose story became a symbol of hope and perseverance during the Great Depression. In the early 20th century, elite male and female athletes were being coached by men. Women coaches at the collegiate level developed an alternative to the highly competitive masculine model of sport in the 1920s.