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Jimmy McNatt. James Carlos McNatt (December 19, 1918 – December 23, 2000) [1] was an All-American basketball player for the Oklahoma Sooners and the AAU's Phillips 66ers. At Oklahoma, McNatt led his team to the first-ever NCAA final Four in 1939, [2] and at Phillips 66, McNatt guided the 66ers (also called the "Oilers") to four consecutive ...
Phillips 66ers. The Phillips 66ers (also known as the Oilers) were an amateur basketball team located in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, sponsored and run by the Phillips Petroleum Company. The 66ers were a national phenomenon that grew from a small-town team to an organization of accomplished amateur athletes receiving national and worldwide attention ...
Each year, USA Today, an American newspaper, awards outstanding high school basketball players with a place on its male and female All-USA high school basketball teams. The newspaper names athletes whom it believes to be the best basketball players from high schools around the United States. In addition, one member of each team is named ...
Later, professional players like David Robinson, Larry Brown, and Gregg Popovich were crowned champions of the AAU. Popovich and Robinson represented the U.S. Armed Forces All-Stars. Between 1920 and 1950, some of the strongest basketball teams in the United States were sponsored by corporations, including Phillips 66, 20th Century Fox, Safeway ...
Phillips 66ers (11) The Amateur Athletic Association is an amateur basketball league that was created in 1897. It hosts the annual AAU National Tournament. [1] All players participating have to be amateurs. During the 1960s players who left college before the formation of the American Basketball League and American Basketball Association had ...
Bob Kurland. Robert Albert Kurland (December 23, 1924 – September 29, 2013) was a 7 feet (2.13m) American basketball center, who played for the two-time NCAA champion Oklahoma A&M Aggies (now Oklahoma State Cowboys) basketball team. He has been credited as the first person to dunk in a college basketball game. [1]
1968. The Amateur Athletic Union Men's Basketball All-Americans were players who competed in the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) between 1920–21 and 1967–68 and were chosen as the best players in the league during their respective seasons. [ 1] Founded in 1888, the Amateur Athletic Union is one of the largest non-profit, volunteer, sports ...
The Parade All-America Boys Basketball Team was an annual selection by Parade that nationally honored the top high school boys' basketball players in the United States. [1] It was part of the Parade All-American series that originated with boys basketball before branching to other sports. [2][3] Started by the Sunday magazine in 1957, it had ...