Cleve Abbott

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Officers of the racially segregated 366th Infantry Regiment on board the RMS Aquitania , on their way home from the First World War , Abbott far left.

Cleveland "Cleve" Leigh Abbott (born December 9, 1892 in Yankton , South Dakota , † April 14, 1955 in Tuskegee , Alabama ) was an American athlete, football and basketball player and coach and professor of sports science.

Life

Even in high school in Watertown , South Dakota , he was a star in every sport he started. He studied physical exercise at South Dakota State University in Brookings , South Dakota, from 1912 to 1916 when he graduated from university. He was a successful athlete in four sports. During World War I , he served in Europe and became a lieutenant in the 366th Infantry Regiment, reserved for African Americans . After the end of the war he became professor and coach of athletics, football and basketball at Tuskegee University, which was only attended by African Americans .

He was the responsible coach for football and basketball for 32 years, during which time he won the American championship of the African American universities five times and the conference championships 12 times. In addition, he trained the athletes. He was inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1996 as the first African American coach .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Afro American January 27, 1940
  2. ^ The College on the Hill, a Sense of South Dakota State University History, Dunkle and Smith, 2003
  3. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: The Fayetteville Observer ) "Negro Gridiron Circuit is Popular" October 25, 1939@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / news.google.com
  4. ↑ In sport, racial segregation was gradually abolished after the Second World War, cf. Arnd Krüger : American sport between isolationism and internationalism. Competitive sport. 18: 1, pp. 43-47 (1988) ; 2, pp. 47-50 . 1st March 2017
personal data
SURNAME Abbott, Cleve
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abbott, Cleveland Leigh (full name); Abbott, Cleve (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American track and field athlete, football and basketball player and coach, and professor of sports science
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Yankton , South Dakota
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1955
Place of death Tuskegee , Alabama