Chuck Taylor (salesman) - Wikipedia
Charles Hollis Taylor (June 24, 1901 – June 23, 1969) was an American basketball player and basketball shoe salesman / marketer who was associated with Chuck Taylor All-Stars, which he helped to improve and promote.
Meet Chuck Taylor: The Man Behind The All Star | Only A Game - WBUR
2013年11月2日 · Chuck Taylor (far right) was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a contributor to the sport in 1969. He died later that year. Millions of people around the world...
How Chuck Taylor Taught America How to Play Basketball
2016年8月8日 · How Chuck Taylor Taught America How to Play Basketball. A shoe-in for the first ever basketball game in the Olympics, Converse All Stars have a long history both in and out of sport
Charles H. "Chuck" Taylor - Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of …
In the summer of 1921, Chuck Taylor hobbled into a Chicago Converse sales office complaining of sore feet and persuaded executives to create a shoe especially for basketball. Taylor, who was a two-time All-State selection at Columbus High School and a journeyman jump shooter for eleven professional seasons, was an entrepreneur and involved in ...
The Shoe Salesman Whose Name Became Synonymous with Basketball
2017年9月14日 · When Chuck Taylor, who was born in rural southern Indiana in 1901, left home at age 17 to play professional basketball, he was following an unlikely dream. The game of basketball—invented by James Naismith, a YMCA physical fitness instructor in Massachusetts in 1891—was still a minor sport in America.
Chuck Taylor, all star : the true story of the man behind the most ...
2023年1月12日 · Chuck Taylor was a basketball player who also served as a wartime coach with the US Army Air Forces and organized thousands of high school and college basketball clinics. He was a true "ambassador of basketball" in Europe and …
Chuck Taylor: "The Creator" of the famous basketball shoes
2018年6月23日 · His signature has appeared on the high-top, canvas All-Star sneakers since 1932, but who exactly is Chuck Taylor? The basketball sneakers were named after Charles Hollis “Chuck” Taylor, an American basketball player who was born in Indiana on this date in 1901.
Old Sneakers Never Die | Charles “Chuck” Taylor, the Man
Nineteen-eighteen was the year an outgoing, likable, six-foot-tall basketball player named Charles H. “Chuck” Taylor made the Indiana High School All-State Team. “He was a good shooter,” says Bill Stearman, longtime coach of the North Columbus Indiana Bulldogs.
Chuck Taylor, All Star - Google Books
2006年3月2日 · Chuck Taylor was a basketball player who also served as a wartime coach with the US Army Air Forces and organized thousands of high school and college basketball clinics. He was a true...
The Original All Star | Charles “Chuck” Taylor, the Man
In 1921, Converse hired a former athlete to help sell its shoes — Charles “Chuck” Taylor, a pre-World War I high school basketball star who later barnstormed with several teams, including the Original Celtics and the Akron Firestones.