Playing Before an Overflow Crowd: The Story of Indian Basketball in Roberson, North Carolina - Softcover

Brayboy, Tim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1880849526 ISBN 13: 9781880849521

Publisher: Chapel Hill Pr, 2002

Synopsis

They werent your run-of-the-mill basketball games. Instead of sneakers, players wore their work shoes or went barefoot. Games were scheduled between the picking times for tobacco, cotton, and corn and after all the crops had been harvested. Often the courts had only dirt floors. But for the Indian community living in Robeson and its neighboring North Carolina counties from 1939 until 1967, basketball was the symbolic measurement of life itself, where a single decision could lead to either victory or defeat. The stands were always overflowing, and spirits ran high. It was a remarkable, but previously undocumented, era in the history of North Carolina sports. Now, every fan can enjoy this fascinating, little-known story in Playing Before an Overflow Crowd: The Story of Indian Basketball in Robeson, North Carolina, and Adjoining Counties. Names, dates, photographs, anecdotesthe entire history of the Tri-County Indian High School Athletic Conference is all here. This chronicle of Native-American boys and girls high-school basketball during the Souths racially segregated decades is a testament to the camaraderie and sense of community Indians established on and around the basketball court. And anyone who wants to learn the secret of the success of The University of Oklahomas great basketball coach, Kevin Sampson, will find it here.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chapel Hill Pr
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1880849526
• ISBN 13: 9781880849521
• Binding: Paperback