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	Basketball - MSN Encarta
		Naismith, who had outlined 13 original rules, dispatched the school janitor to find two boxes to be fastened to the balcony railing at opposite sides of the gymnasium, where they would serve as goals.
		In Naismith's original 13 rules, the ball could be batted in any direction with one or both hands, but it could not be dribbled because players could not move with the ball.
		The Buffalo Germans, a team that won 111 straight games between 1908 and 1911, and the Original Celtics, a team that pioneered many tactics in basketball, including the development of the zone defense, were extraordinarily successful professional teams in the early 20th century.
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	Socionomics Institute
		In the 1920s, the original Celtics were the first heroes of the hardwood.
		On the professional level, the Bird-Johnson rivalry was not officially consummated until the conclusion of the 1983-84 season, when the Lakers and Celtics, the two powers of the 1950s and 1960s, met in the finals for the first time since the glory days of the Celtics.
		The Celtics could not do it alone...That mystical feeling usually came with the better teams in the league that were challenging us for the championship...It usually began when three or four of the ten guys on the floor would heat up; they would be catalysts, and they were almost always the stars in the league.
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	Penn State News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But not many know that the original Celtics — the New York Celtics — were perhaps the most dominant basketball team of the century.
		The original Celtics team and the professional basketball leagues that developed in that era are chronicled in a new book, The Originals: The New York Celtics Invent Modern Basketball by Murry Nelson.
		The Original Celtics were at the vanguard of this creation and development.
	www.personal.psu.edu /dept/ur/NEWS/news/celtics.html (351 words)

	Original Celtics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Original Celtics, no relation to the equally famous Boston Celtics, were an outstanding barnstorming professional basketball team in the 1920s.
		The team's roots lay in the New York Celtics team which disbanded during World War I. In 1918, James Furey reassembled his own team around a nucleus of those truly "original" Celtics, added other players mostly from the West Side of New York City, and defiantly called his new squad the Original Celtics.
		The Original Celtics responded by so dominating the league in their first two seasons there that the league forced them to break up, and apportioned their players to the other teams.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Original_Celtics (505 words)

	Boston Celtics (1946-Present)
		Named after the legendary Original Celtics, which played as a barnstorming team and in the ABL during the 1920s and 1930s, and in hope of attracting fans from the city's large Irish population.
		In the NBA Finals the Celtics faced the S. Louis Hawks again, but this time it was a cake walk as the Celtics claimed their 3rd straight title and 4th in 5 season in 5 games.
		The Celtics continued to be the class of the NBA winning the Atlantic Division for the 3rd year in a row with a league best 63-19 record.
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	Boston Celtics News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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		Original Celtics - The Original Celtics, no relation to the equally famous Boston Celtics, were an outstanding barnstorming professional basketball team in the 1920s.
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		The Celtic players were also the first to be paid by the season, not the game, which meant they remained together and did not switch teams or leagues for a better payday.
		In 1927, the Original Celtics were coerced into the American Basketball League (the first attempt to have a national basketball league) when the league banned any ABL team from playing the Celtics in exhibition games.
		When the Celtics disbanded in 1929 (after their owner went to jail), Banks and Nat Holman continued to play in the ABL with the New York Hakoahs, an all-Jewish team.
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	Boston Celtics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Celtics were formed in 1946 as a team in the Basketball Association of America, and became part of the National Basketball Association after the merger of the BAA and the National Basketball League to form the NBA in the fall of 1949.
		After the series the Celtics traded Henderson, whose dramatic steal in game 2 altered the course of the series and gave the Celtics a chance, to the Seattle Supersonics in exchange for their first round pick in the 1986 NBA Draft.
		In 1994, the Celtics hired former player M.L. Carr to be the team's new G.M. In his first draft in charge of the Celtics he drafted University of North Carolina star Eric Montross with his first round draft pick.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boston_Celtics (4340 words)

	Boston celtics preface
		The Celtics is among the seven teams which play in the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association.
		The Celtics stand next to the New York Knicks to be the members of the original National Basketball Association and be in their original city.
		Boston Celtics was named after a professional team in the era of 1920s which led the pro basketball.
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	Penn State News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Originals: The New York Celtics Invent Modern Basketball, by Murry Nelson, chronicles the original professional basketball leagues that developed primarily in the northeast and along ethnic lines, including the legendary New York Celtics.
		The original Celtics roared through the first nationwide basketball league, the American Basketball League, in the 1920s and the unrelated Boston Celtics were later named after that team.
		The original Celtics won more than 700 games against less than 60 losses and are one of only four teams enshrined in the James A. Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
	www.personal.psu.edu /dept/ur/NEWS/news/bbleagues.html (422 words)

	Born in the USA
		Although much added to and amended over the years, the original 13 rules remain as the basis of the game.
		Backboards (originally a massive 6' by 12') are put up to prevent spectators interfering with the ball.
		The ABL folded in 1931 and was followed by various bits-and-pieces leagues as WWII approached (five members of the Celtics were meanwhile touring the country in a second-hand Pierce-Arrow on a guaranteed $125 a game..).
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	Boston Celtics : Celtics Ticket Broker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Boston Celtics is a team in the National Basketball Association from Boston, Massachusetts.
		After the backboard was restored the Celtics loosed their game to the Chicago Stags by 57-55.
		The jersey colors of the Celtics are green, white and gold with a logo of a leprechaun with a smoking pipe spinning a basketball on his right finger wile leaning with his left hand alongside his walking stick.
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	Penn State News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But not many know that the original Celtics — the New York Celtics — were perhaps the most dominant basketball team of the century.
		The original Celtics team and the professional basketball leagues that developed in that era are chronicled in a new book, The Originals: The New York Celtics Invent Modern Basketball by Murry Nelson.
		The Original Celtics were at the vanguard of this creation and development.
	www.psu.edu /ur/NEWS/news/celtics.html (351 words)

	Flo Harvey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For the Ronald Encyclopedia of Basketball, Ed Watcher, referred to by Nat Holman as the greatest center ever in that era and as one of the finest all-round and most faultless players who ever lived, was asked to select an all-time professional team for the first fifty years of the game, from 1891 to 1941.
		Manager Fury of the Celtics was so impressed with the playing of "Flo" in these games that he invited Harvey to play with the Celtics in Bridgeport, Conn. He was paired with Johny Beckman at forward, but before the game could start, the management and Bridgeport fans insisted on the Celtic lineup as advertised.
		He returned to Newport, and in the days ahead, kept his game sharp and recieved an invitation to play the Original Celtics with his Newport Five.
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	Green Destiny: The Boston Celtics Fanlisting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Celtics were founding in 1946, as a team in the Basketball Association of America, and became part of the National Basketball Association after the merger of the BAA and the National Basketball League to form the NBA in the fall of 1949.
		The name came from owner Walter Brown, apparently the name had roots in an original Celtics team in New York and was chosen due to the large Irish population in Boston.
		After a somewhat disappointing season, the Celtics made the playoffs only to be eliminated in the first round by the Orlando Magic.The Celtics wallowed in mediocrity for the next few years and would fail to make the playoffs.
	nasty-dress.net /celts (2804 words)

	CSADP: Conferences: 1998-1999: Harlem Rens Basketball
		Robert "Bob" Douglas, originally from St. Kitts, British West Indies, was the coach of the Spartan Braves, an amateur team in the New York area.
		They even played against the Original Celtics of New York, the strongest professional team of its time, according to many sources.
		In 1925-26, the Original Celtics also did not play in the ABL supposedly because its members opposed the league’s segregationist policy that disallowed fl teams from playing.
	www.bunchecenter.ucla.edu /diaspora/conferences/1998_blackbball.htm (794 words)

	Bob Cousy Jerseys & T-Shirts For Sale
		This is the number worn by Bob Cousy with the 1962-63 Boston Celtics.
		June 6, 1946, marked the birth of the Boston Celtics.
		In 1950, the Celtics chose Chuck Cooper of Duquesne as the first-African-American draft choice in the NBA.
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	Penn State News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But not many know that the original Celtics — the New York Celtics — were perhaps the most dominant basketball team of the century, says a Penn State professor in a new book.
		The original Celtics team and the professional basketball leagues that developed in that era are chronicled in a new book, "The Originals: The New York Celtics Invent Modern Basketball" by Murry Nelson, professor of education and American studies in Penn State’s College of Education, and published by Bowling Green University Popular Press.
		The original Celtics were at the vanguard of this creation and development, says Nelson.
	www.psu.edu /ur/NEWS/news/originalceltics.html (310 words)

	Immovable NBA Teams-The Sports Chat Basketball Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Boston Celtics and the New York Knickerbockers, of the Basketball Association of America (which later merged with the National Basketball League to form the National Basketball Association), are the only two original franchises still playing in the same city with the original team name since they were created in 1946.
		Brown, the Celtics' founder, tossed around a variety of names for the team including the Whirlwinds, Olympics, and Unicorns but in the end chose the "Celtics".
		Originally known as the Tri-Cities Blackhawks, named after the famous Sauk Indian Chief Black Hawk, the team belonged to Moline and Rock Island, Illinois; and Davenport, Iowa, which were granted the franchise in 1948.
	www.sports-chat.com /forums/showthread.php?t=1125 (1945 words)

	ESPN.com - NBA - Celtics look at replacing parquet floor
		Rick Pitino, Celtics president and coach, said he didn't know about the floor being replaced, but team spokesman Jeff Twiss confirmed that replacement samples have been examined.
		Original Celtics owner Walter Brown had the floor built for about $11,000 by the East Boston Lumber Co. in 1946.
		The floor was built from crosscut oak scraps from a Tennessee forest because of a post-World War II shortage of materials.
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	Nat Holman
		He joined the legendary Original Celtics at the end of the 1921 season and continued to play for them until 1929.
		Holman was regarded as the finest ball handler, playmaker, and set-shot artist of his day—a player with undefinable court savvy that helped lead the Celtics to an incredible 531-28 win-loss record.
		It was with the Celtics that Holman devised the "center pivot" play, an offensive concept that revolutionized basketball.
	www.jewishsports.net /BioPages/NatHolman.htm (392 words)

	A father's legacy lives on - basketball coach Joe Lapchick - Brief Article Sporting News, The - Find Articles
		The rivalry between the Celtics and the New York Rens became legendary, and both teams eventually were inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.
		The Celtics could eat in the best restaurants in a town; the Rens usually packed their food for the bus ride because few restaurants would serve them.
		The Celtics also helped to deal with promoters who were ready to cheat the Rens out of their share of the game money.
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	Memphis Mojo - Real News, Reviews and Views on Memphis Entertainment
		The Celtics played in several different leagues but were primarily 'barnstormers', touring the country, playing whatever teams they could get to play them.
		For several seasons, the Original Celtics toured the country, playing about 140 games each year, traveling 140,000 miles a season, bringing innovations such as post play and man-to-man defenses.
		In 1959, in recognition of their role in popularizing the game of professional basketball, the Original Celtics were among the very first inductees in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
	www.memphismojo.com /archives/detail.php?id=620 (259 words)

	Henry "Dutch" Dehnert Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As a member of the Original Celtics, "Dutch" Dehnert is credited with perfecting the pivot play, first used against a strong local club in Chattanooga, TN.
		This simple, yet revolutionary maneuver became the focus of the Celtics' attack.
		The Celtics joined the American Basketball League in 1926, and with Dehnert's deft execution of the pivot play, they captured two consecutive championships in 1927 and 1928.
	www.hoophall.com /halloffamers/Dehnert.htm (239 words)

	Nat Holman The Man, His Legacy, and CCNY
		But when he joined the Original Celtics in 1921, his own greatness was finally appreciated so much that his nickname—"Mr.
		With the Celtics he introduced an exciting style of basketball that brought the professional game to national attention for the first time.
		It was the post and pivot play with constant motion (the center position stands with his back to the basket, seals his defender on his back and either can pass to a teammate or shoot the ball himself), zone defenses, and the switching of man-to-man defense.
	www.ccny.cuny.edu /library/exhibitions/holman/intro.html (573 words)

	The Celtics Beagle Website - FAQ and Myth-Debunking Section
		When the floor was originally built in 1946, WWII had just ended less than a year before, and a lot of things were in short supply, driving up the cost of whatever was available--including hardwood.
		In 1969, the Celtics were, frankly, an aging team that struggled a bit during the regular season.
		At the time he was coaching the Celtics, Red simply remarked that they helped him relax, and that the symbolic act of relaxing with a cigar told the team, the opponents, and the fans that the game was won.
	www.celticsbeagle.net /cbwfaq.html (3847 words)

	Boston Celtics Tickets from TicketsNationWide.com \| Boston Celtics Tickets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Boston Celtics are one of two NBA teams that started and still play in the same NBA city and have the same team name.
		The name, Boston Celtic grew out of a conversation between team founder Walter Brown and Howie McHugh, a member of the Garden's publicity staff and the man assigned to handle the basketball entity.
		While winning championships was done by the team-concept method, 22 of the Boston Celtics' players and management responsible for those banners have had their uniform number retired to the arena rafters.
	www.ticketsnationwide.com /sports/nba/boston.shtml (438 words)

	What’s in a Name \| Celtics.com
		But it was Brown, who suddenly exclaimed, "Wait, I've got it - the Celtics.
		McHugh tried in vain to talk with, negotiate and dissuade Brown not to use the name Celtics, but Brown's mind had clearly reached a final decision and that would be the end of that conversation.
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	Boston.com / Sports / Basketball / Celtics / My old Kentucky home
		Nicknamed the "Kentucky Colonel," Frank Ramsey helped revolutionize basketball by becoming the Boston Celtics’ original "sixth man." Perfecting the off-the-bench role, Ramsey played nine seasons (1955-64) with the Celtics and was a key member of seven NBA championship teams.
		“You have to realize back when that was happening the standard was the original Celtics back in the 40’s and now it seems the standard is the Celtics teams of the late 50’s and 60’s,” the 73-year-old Ramsey said.
		Despite living in Kentucky, Ramsey tries to keep an eye on the Celtics but admits one of the biggest differences between today and when he played is how easily players switch teams.
	www.boston.com /sports/basketball/celtics/articles/2004/12/06/my_old_kentucky_home (1020 words)

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