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Read an excerpt of They Call Me Big House
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Big House.
For nearly half a century in college basketball circles, no other
introduction was necessary.
Clarence E. "Big House" Gaines became head coach at
Winston-Salem State Teacher's College in 1946. He was not just the
head basketball coach, he was the head coach.
Period. He coached every sport the school offered-- basketball,
football, track, tennis, boxing. He taught in the classroom,
too. And all for $2,400 a year.
In this book, Gaines tells us how he cut his duties back to athletics
director and basketball coach and began recruiting athletes in his
native Midwest, then on the inner-city playgrounds of the Northeast.
Gaines built a highly successful basketball program, culminating in his
1967 national championship. But all along, the journey was more
important than the destination. Big House tells how first and
foremost for him, basketball was always a means of helping young men
build better lives and of leading people across the divide separating
races and cultures.
about the authors
Clarence E. Gaines, who is enshrined in seven Halls of Fame, was
elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1982.
Coach Gaines died in April, 2005, but is remembered with the highest
esteem by the basketball community and by everyone who knew him, worked
with him and played for him. Clint Johnson is the author of seven
previous books.
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