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1947: Wat Misaka (1923–2019), first non-white player and first of Asian descent 1950: Nat Clifton (1922–1990), Chuck Cooper (1926–1984) and Earl Lloyd (1928–2015), the first African Americans in the NBA, with Lloyd being the first to play in a game, preceding Clifton by four days and Cooper by one
Ella Lord – First woman to play in the Atlantic Football League, playing for the UNB Reds on September 21, 2024. [10] Patricia Palinkas – First woman to play professional football, debuting on August 15, 1970, as a holder for her placekicker husband on the Orlando Panthers of the minor-league Atlantic Coast Football League. [7]
The first Latino coach to win a Super Bowl, Tom Flores, also did so before the first black coach, Tony Dungy, won a Super Bowl. And the first Latino player in the league, Joe Aguirre, entered the league before Kenny Washington and Woody Strode became the first black players to play in the league.
1965: Patsy Mink becomes the first Asian American woman elected to the U.S. Congress. 1971: Norman Mineta becomes the first Asian-American mayor of a major city (San Jose, CA) in the United States. [51] 1971: Herbert Choy becomes the first Asian-American U.S. federal court judge, appointed to the U.S. court of appeals for the ninth circuit. [52]
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Jackson State's Leilani Armenta became the first woman to play in an HBCU football game when she kicked off for the Tigers on Sept. 23, 2023.
In 1951, he became the first American to play professional baseball in Japan, leading off for the Yomiuri Giants. Hines Ward , who was of Korean descent, played both football and baseball. Prior to playing wide receiver at the University of Georgia , Ward was drafted by the Miami Marlins and offered a $25,000 signing bonus. [ 15 ]
In 2001, she joined the Jacksonville State football team as a backup placekicker. She became the first woman to play and score points on August 30, 2001, when she kicked an extra point in the first quarter of a game against Cumberland University. She would go on to make two more successful extra point attempts in the game, which resulted in a ...