ALL STAR LOVE

ALL STAR LOVE

# Enviado el domingo 20 de mayo de 2007 16:58

Chuck Taylor

Chuck Taylor
The story of Charles H. ("Chuck") Taylor, Hoosier, basketball player, and master shoe salesman:

* 1901 - Born in Indiana.
* 1908 - Marquis M. Converse started the "Converse Rubber Company."
* 1917 - Converse Rubber Company brought out a shoe very much like today's "All Star."
* 1921 - Converse hired Chuck Taylor from the Akron Firestone Non-Skids basketball team. Chuck Taylor conducted basketball clinics for Converse.
* 1932 - Chuck Taylor got his signature on the basketball shoe now associated with his name.
* World War II - Chuck coaches the Army Air Forces "Air-Tecs" basketball team at Wright Field, Ohio.
* 1958 - Inducted into the National Sporting Goods Hall of Fame.
* 1968 - Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
* 1969 - Passed away, probably as his namesake basketball shoe reached the height of its popularity.

Here are some of the shoes with Chuck's name on them:

* Chuck's basketball shoe
* Chuck's football shoe
* Chuck's track training shoe
* Chuck's wrestling shoe

Chuck Taylor rumors I've heard, and what I found out about them:

* Chuck Taylor was the basketball coach at Stanford University:
o No, but another man named Chuck Taylor played football at Stanford in 1943, later to become football coach from 1951-1957. Chuck Taylor of Stanford football fame passed away in 2004 at the age of 74.

# Enviado el domingo 20 de mayo de 2007 16:51

CONVERSE

CONVERSE

# Enviado el domingo 20 de mayo de 2007 16:09