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Bill Russell By: Daniel W. William Felton Russell was born in Monroe, Louisiana on February 12, 1934. Monroe was a typical small town in the "Deep South" with racial segregation. By the age of nine Bill and his family moved to Oakland, California into the "integrated" projects. In 1946, Bill's mom caught a rare case of the flu, she stayed hospitalized for about two weeks, then died. Bill's dad took care of both of his sons by himself. After failing to make any sports teams in junior high school he served as the school mascot in high school before he made the basketball team in the 10th grade. Bill graduated in 1952. After high school Bill played at the University of San Francisco. Day by day his game improved until Bill could touch a spot on the backboard that is 14 feet high, that is four more feet than the rim's height. In addition to the basketball team, he was also in the track team as a high jumper. His best jump was a near world record.....six feet nine inches. After college Bill tried for the Olympic basketball team, he made the team and they won all eight of their games by at least 30 points. They also won the gold medal. On the 9th of December, just three days after the Olympics, he got married to Rose Swisier, then shortly after that his basketball career began.

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William "Bill" Russell Enshrined: Born: Height: Weight: As a player on April 28, 1975 February 12, 1934 in Monroe, LA 6-foot-10 220 pounds High School: McClymonds (CA) High School (1948-52) High School Playing Highlights: All-State (1956) All-Conference (1951, 1952) College: University of San Francisco (1952-56) College Playing Highlights: Four-year letter winner under Hall of Fame coach Phil Woolpert All-America (1956) Led San Francisco to back-to-back NCAA championships (1955, 1956) Along with Hall of Fame teammate K.C. Jones, led USF to 55 straight wins and two straight undefeated seasons USA Player of the Year (1956) Scored 1,636 points (20.7 ppg) and grabbed 1,606 rebounds (20.3 rpg) in 79 games Two-time All-Conference, State, District and American NCAA Most Outstanding Player (1955) Member, gold medal-winning U.S. Olympic Team (1956) Pro NBA Boston Celtics (1956-69) Pro Playing Highlights: Won an amazing 11 NBA championships with Boston Celtics in 13 seasons (1957, 1959-66, 1968-69)

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4. Bill Russell Russel became the first AfricanAmerican to coach a team in a major sports and the first black inductee to the basketball Hall of Fame. http://www.geocities.com/dblimbrick/russell.html

Bill Russell That's how Bill Russell lived his life: as a leader. During his playing days with the Celtics, black players were denied admission to an Indiana bar and Kentucky hotel coffee shops so Russell and other players boycotted a game in Lexington. In the early 1960's Russell said, " The basic problem in Negro America is the destruction of race pride. One could say we have been victims of psychological warfare, in a sense, in that this is a white country, and all the emphasis is on being white." In 1966, he made history by becoming the first black coach in the post-depression era of any major American sport. In 1969, he retired as a successful player-coach. As an observer, it may seem as though Russell led a normal life in Boston. But there were fans that hated Bill Russell and he knew it. So in 1972 when his jersey was being retired, he didn't attend the ceremony. He also didn't attend in 1974 when he became the first black elected into the Hall of Fame. He also never gave an autograph because he felt that a handshake was worth more. No superstar had dealt with the media and the fans in this way. His conduct was more evidence to the statement that he was never a follower. At the time, it was important for blacks to look up to someone who did what he felt was right despite what others told him. Bill Russell's conduct exemplified this principal. He represents a modern hero for blacks and athletes alike. Basketball Updates HOME

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Russell, Bill, Russell, mid-1960s Dick Raphael byname of WILLIAM FELTON RUSSELL (b. Feb. 12, 1934, Monroe, La., U.S.), American basketball player regarded in his day as the greatest defensive centre in the history of the game. He set standards by which other exceptionally tall players were judged (his height was 6 feet 10 inches). On April 18, 1966, he became the first black coach of a major professional sports team (the Boston Celtics) in the United States. Reared in Oakland, Calif., Russell led the University of San Francisco to National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championships in two consecutive seasons (1954-55 and 1955-56). After playing on the U.S. team that won the 1956 Olympic basketball gold medal in Melbourne, he joined the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). With Russell at centre, the Celtics won 11 NBA championships in 13 seasons. He coached the last two of those championship teams but retired as coach in 1969. On five occasions Russell was voted the most valuable player in the NBA. In 1967 the Associated Press named him one of the five members of its All-America collegiate team for the preceding 20 years; later the AP selected him the outstanding professional basketball player of the 1960s. He was coach and general manager of the Seattle SuperSonics (1973-77). His autobiography, Second Wind: The Memoirs of an Opinionated Man

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Bill Russell Bill Russell redefined the game of basketball and brought new meaning to the word "defense". "Defense is a science not a helter-skelter thing you just luck into. Every move has six or seven years of work behind it," Bill Russell was quoted as saying in Champion of American Sports. "On the occasion of the NBA's 35-year anniversary in 1980, it was Russell and not Chamberlain, Mikan, or Oscar Robertson whom members of the Professional Basketball Writers Association tabbed by a wide margin as 'the greatest player in the history of the NBA.' Russell was among that truly rare handful of athletes-Babe Ruth comes immediately to mind in baseball-who dominate their sport so thoroughly that they actually change the way the game is played and perceived by future generations," Peter C. Bjarkman wrote in The Biographical History of Basketball. In A Century of Sports, Time-Life editors wrote, "Russell a 6-foot-9 center, changed the game with his defense. He rebounded, triggered the fast break, and made shot blocking an art form long before it became an official statistic. Just the 'sound of his footsteps,' said Auerbach intimidated opposing players." "In fact, nobody before or since has played defense the way Russell did. He didn't bend rims-he bent minds. Russell blocked shots at will and blocked them not for show but for psychological value. Russell used the blocked shot as a deterrent, to make you fearful of shooting anywhere within his range," Tony Kornheiser wrote in his article, Nothing But A Man.

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