On October 13, 1910, history was made when Major A. Hart formed the first all-black play-for-pay basketball team, a new squad called the New York All Stars.
Major Hart Changes Basketball History, This Date In 1910
July 27 is the birthday of Ferdinand J. Accooe, one of the original members of the Smart Set Athletic Club of Brooklyn.
The newly renovated Park Slope Armory (a.k.a. 14th Regiment Armory) in Brooklyn is so magnificent that people wanted to see more historical images of the old spot.
The site of the former home of Smart Set Athletic Club founding father Edwin F. Horne, grandfather of Lena Horne, is now a playground in the Bed-Stuy section of Brooklyn.
The historic 14th Regiment Armory in Brooklyn: photographs of the interior of the drill hall.
The Smart Set Athletic Club used the old 14th Regiment Armory in Brooklyn, now breathtakingly renovated, as its home court for basketball during the 1910s.
In the early 1900s, the Christian origins of basketball (in the YMCA) spawned an unwritten rule: playing the game was forbidden during Lent.
December 18 is the anniversary (1908) of the first inter-city game between two African American basketball teams.








