All American Redheads Basketball Team Members

From 1964 1971 moore had three red heads teams touring during the season.

All american redheads basketball team members. Orwell moores wife lorene butch moore was also a spectacular red heads player. A professional womans basketball team who traveled the country to compete. Julius erving right congratulates inductees members of the all american red heads during the enshrinement ceremony for the 2012 class of the naismith memorial basketball hall of fame at symphony hall in springfield mass. Report from the 1950s.

Other stars included willa red mason johnny farley barb hostert jolene ammons and cheryl clark. The all american red heads barnstormed the country for the better part of six decades playing to packed houses at every stop. The team was so successful that moore hired a second team of red heads to travel. In 1948 olson sold the all american red heads to orwell moore a basketball coach whose wife played on the team for a time.

During the off season players taught basketball to girls. Olson sells the team. Although the honorees generally do not compete together as a unit the term is used in us. Team sports to refer to players who are.

The official facebook page of the all american red heads. In 1936 almost 50 years after womens basketball began c. Formed in 1936 the all female five played mens teams by mens rules shattering stereotypes about female athletes and overcoming social barriers that existed on and off the basketball court. Through the 1960s and 1970s three teams toured.

The all american red heads. Coaches of the all american red heads in addition to olson and moore included hazel walker who left the organization in 1949 to form her own barnstorming team the arkansas travelers willa faye red mason jack moore orwells brother chuck plummer larry emison wilb coggin ben overman charlotte adams jolene ammons and cheryl clark. An all american team is an honorary sports team composed of the best amateur players of a specific season for each team positionwho in turn are given the honorific all america and typically referred to as all american athletes or simply all americans. Adams a coachplayer scored over 26000 points and was offered a coaching position with the milwaukee does of the womens basketball.

Ole olsonwho also founded osons terrible swedes started a barnstorming team which would play around the country until 1986.