• The Dayton Rens were a member of the National Basketball League (NBL) for the 1948-49 season and were the only all-black team to play in a white league...
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  • their fifth encounter, the Rens did so for the first time, on December 20, 1925. During the 1932–33 regular season, the Rens compiled a record of 120–8...
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  • Rensen, another surname Dayton Rens, New York Rens and Pittsburgh Rens, American basketball teams Renske, Dutch feminine given name Rens at the Corpus of First...
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  • Tom Sealy (category Dayton Rens players)
    He was a member of the Harlem Globetrotters. He also played for the Dayton Rens of the National Basketball League. Sealy was featured in the film Tommy...
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    Pop Gates (category Dayton Rens coaches)
    (Benjamin Franklin, New York, 1938) to a world professional champion (New York Rens, 1939). Gates was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of...
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  • barnstorming team, the New York Rens, composed entirely of African Americans, to play out the season in Dayton, Ohio, as the Dayton Rens. In 1949, after a three-year...
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  • Jim Usry (category Dayton Rens players)
    was a professional basketball player with the New York Renaissance and Dayton Rens. In 1971, he earned a master's degree from Glassboro State College. A...
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    Duke Cumberland (category Dayton Rens players)
    on September 15, 2016. Retrieved September 11, 2016. "The Hidden Story: Rens Break Pre-NBA Color Barrier, 1948". blackfives.org. Retrieved 27 March 2015...
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    George Crowe (category Dayton Rens players)
    (NBL) and the American Basketball League (ABL). He first played for the Dayton Rens of the NBL during the 1948–49 season and averaged 10.9 points per game...
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  • Place: New York Rens 34- Oshkosh All-Stars 25 MVP- Puggy Bell (New York Rens) Leading Championship Game Scorers: Pop Gates (New York Rens) 12 Leroy Edwards...
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  • Longie Powell (category Dayton Rens players)
    1980) was an American professional basketball player. He played for the Dayton Rens in the National Basketball League during the 1948–49 season and averaged...
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    Len Ford (category Dayton Rens players)
    September 22, 2013. Retrieved September 5, 2013. Piascik 2007, p. 299. "Rens Tackle Syracuse" (PDF). The New York Age. January 29, 1949. p. 11. Archived...
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  • First African-American player-coach in major leagues with the 1948–49 Dayton Rens of the NBL 1989 K.C. Jones G NCAA championship with USF, 1955, 1956 U...
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  • Wee Willie Smith (category Dayton Rens players)
    Ohio) Playing career 1931–1949 Position Center Career history 1931–1942 New York Renaissance 1943–1944 Cleveland Chase Brassmen 1948–1949 Dayton Rens...
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  • Dolly King (category Dayton Rens players)
    York Rens 1941–1946 Washington Bears 1944–1945 Rochester 1946–1947 Rochester Royals 1947–1948 New York Rens 1948–1949 New Haven 1949 Dayton Rens 1949...
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  • Red Pryor (category Dayton Rens players)
    2005) was an American professional basketball player. He played for the Dayton Rens in the National Basketball League during the latter part of the 1948–49...
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  • John Isaacs (category Dayton Rens players)
    accepted the offer, but only after getting approval from his mother. With the Rens, Isaacs led the team to season records of 122–19, 121–19, and 127–15. The...
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  • Vic Krafft (category Dayton Rens players)
    1991) was an American professional basketball player. He played for the Dayton Rens in the National Basketball League for three games during the 1948–49...
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  • Arnelle, Fletcher Johnson, Sherman White and Floyd Lane. The all-black Dayton Rens competed in the 1948–49 National Basketball League. During the early...
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  • Rookie Brown (category Dayton Rens players)
    the United States' National Basketball League (NBL). He played for the Dayton Rens in 10 games during the 1948–49 season. He played collegiately at Virginia...
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  • Sonny Wood (category Dayton Rens players)
    baseball player. He played in the National Basketball League for the Dayton Rens during the 1948–49 season and averaged 6.7 points per game. He also competed...
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  • Hank DeZonie (category Dayton Rens players)
    1940s and then joined the Dayton Rens, an all-black travelling basketball team named after the Harlem Renaissance. The Rens joined the integrated National...
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  • Bill Farrow (category Dayton Rens players)
    Basketball League for the Youngstown Bears (32 games in 1946–47) and Dayton Rens (three games in 1948–49), where he averaged 5.3 points per game for his...
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  • first African–American coach in a major league when he coached the 1948 Dayton Rens. In 1949, Kerner hired eventual Naismith Hall of Fame coach Red Auerbach...
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    Transfers Cleveland White Horses Columbus Athletic Supply Dayton Metropolitans Dayton Rens Toledo Chevrolets Toledo Jeeps Cleveland Rosenblums Toledo...
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    4-time league assists leader Red Pryor (1944) — NBL guard (1948–49), Dayton Rens Jason Williams (2004) — NFL linebacker (2009–14) for Carolina Panthers...
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  • who defeated the Dayton Acmes 78–52 in the championship game. The Chicago American Gears came in third after beating the New York Rens 64–55 in the third-place...
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  • Anderson Duffey Packers 49 15 .766 Syracuse Nationals 40 23 .635 Hammond Calumet Buccaneers 21 41 .339 Detroit Vagabond Kings / Dayton Rens 16 43 .271...
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  • Hammond Calumet Buccaneers 21 41 .339 4 Dayton Rens‡ 14 26 .350 5 Detroit Vagabond Kings‡ 2 17 .105 ‡ Dayton replaced Detroit, who disbanded during the...
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  • WCLJ-TV/Indianapolis, WDLI-TV/Cleveland, WSFJ-TV/Columbus, Ohio, and WKOI-TV/Dayton, Ohio (the former two already have channel sharing agreements with the Ion...
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