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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.
The Chuck Taylor Most Valuable Player Award was ... Established in 1939 and later named as an homage to the Chuck Taylor All-Stars, an iconic basketball shoe ...
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
Chuck Taylor (salesman) (1901–1969), basketball player and sneaker pioneer Colin Taylor (footballer, born 1940) (1940–2005), association (soccer) footballer of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s Colin Taylor (footballer, born 1971) association (soccer) footballer of the 1990s
Chuck Taylor (salesman) (1901–1969), American basketball player and shoe salesman/evangelist Chuck Taylor (baseball) (1942–2018), American baseball pitcher and player Chuck Wepner (born 1939), American heavyweight boxer
In 1950, PF Flyers became standard issue for certain military outfits. 1958 saw the first athlete to be endorsed by a shoe brand: All-star basketball player Bob Cousy of the Boston Celtics was chosen to market PF Flyers. PF Flyers also sponsored Jonny Quest when it ran from 1964 to 1965. By the 1960s, PF was one of the most popular shoes in ...
Stats at Basketball Reference Alan Charles Terry (born September 27, 1950) is an American retired professional basketball player. Terry was drafted by the Milwaukee Bucks in the second round of the 1972 NBA draft .