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Originally Posted by Exhibitman
I always forget that the era of 'modern' basketball starts a lot later than the era of 'modern' baseball or football or boxing. I was really surprised when I saw this card from the 1925 Exhibit Champions set that it was a HS team:
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Adam,
This is one of the Passaic High School wonder teams coached by Basketball Hall of Famer Ernest Blood. He coached them from 1915-24 with a 200-1 record and a 159 game winning streak. The person on the left looks a little like Bill Mokray, Basketball Hall of Famer who attended Passaic H.S. and would have been a junior or senior. He was the first great basketball statistician.