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Cleveland Leigh Abbott

Tuskegee Institute Pioneer coach in basketball, football, tennis, and women’s track and field. He was hired by Tuskegee Institute founder, Booker T. Washington as an Agricultural chemist and Athletic Director.

A True Pioneer and Educator

Football record:202–95–27, 32-years Six undefeated seasons. 61 conference and Black college national championships. Director, Department of Physical Education and Athletics Started women’s track and field program. Went undefeated from 1937-1942. 6 U.S. Olympians including gold medalists Alice Coachman and Mildred McDaniel. Coached ATA tennis stars Margaret “Pete” Peters and Roumania “Repeat” Peters Coached First Football All-American - Ben Stevenson.

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Cleveland L. Abbott

Tuskegee Institute Pioneer coach in basketball, football, tennis, and women’s track and field.

He was hired by Tuskegee Institute founder Booker T. Washington as an Agricultural chemist and Athletic Director.
Football record:202–95–27, 32-years
Six undefeated seasons.
61 conference and Black college national championships.
Director, Department of Physical Education and Athletics
Started women’s track and field program.
Went undefeated from 1937-1942.
6 U.S. Olympians including gold medalists Alice Coachman and Mildred McDaniel.
Coached ATA tennis stars Margaret “Pete” Peters and Roumania “Repeat” Peters
Coached First Football All-American – Ben Stevenson.

Edward B. Henderson

Educator and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) pioneer

Director of health and physical education for Washington, D.C.’s black schools. Established the Inter-Scholastic Athletic Association of Middle Atlantic States (ISAA), an all-black amateur sports conference 1909-1910, 1910-1911.The unofficial title: Colored Basketball World Champions.
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, 2013
Inaugural Class, the National Black Sports Hall of Fame, 1974