TITLE: The Bull Pen-Basketball

COVERAGE: 1916-1960

DESCRIPTION: The Bull Pen Collection contains information on athletics and other student activities that have been held on the Campus of Johnson C. Smith University. Additional information about the basketball team is available in the Inez Moore Parker Archives and Research Center at Johnson C. Smith University.

TYPE: Photograph

PHOTOGRAPH DATE: 1917, 1928, 1932

CREATOR: Inez Moore Parker Archives and Research Center

ACQUISITION DATE: November 2000

PROCESSED BY: Monika Rivera Rhue

HISTORICAL NOTE: The sport of basketball came to the campus of Biddle University in 1916, under the sponsorship of the YMCA. Immediately following the erection of the Hartley Woods Gymnasium 1928, the university began to play competitive basketball in the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA). The coach of the basketball team was Randy Taylor. The CIAA held their first Basketball Tournament in 1946. By 1952, the Bulls were playing well enough to reach the final in tournament play. In 1960, the Bulls won the CIAA  Basketball Championship.

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SITE CREATION: April 2, 2003