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Chamberlain, Wilton "Wilt" Norman (1936-1999)
Wilt Chamberlain was a professional basketball player. He began his career in high school playing for Overbrook High School from 1953 to 1955. He went to the University of Kansas from 1956 to 1958. From 1958 to 1959 he played for the Harlem Globetrotters. He joined the NBA in 1959 and played for the Philadelphia/San Francisco Warriors until 1965. In the spring of 1960, Wilt Chamberlain shocked the sporting world when he announced his retirement from the NBA. The retirement ended up being a brief few months. When reporters asked him why he retired early, Chamberlain responded it was a combination of money and his rough treatment by opposing players. Chamberlain put together an All-Star team and began a barnstorming tour. When Chamberlain returned to the NBA in the summer of 1960 he signed a three-year contract with the Philadelphia Warriors for $375,000 making him the highest-paid athlete in American history in 1960. Wilt Chamberlain once described Sherman White as "his idol in high school."Tags Sports -
Robinson, Henry, Jr. (1932-?)
Henry Robinson was an All-County forward for the 1951 Championship Dwight Morrow Raiders Basketball Team. In 1951 he led the Raiders to the Group 3 State Championship. He was voted the MVP of the NJSIAA state tournament. He later became a detective for the Englewood Police Department. -
Madonna Park
Madonna Park near Forest Avenue and Williams Street became a center of boxing and baseball in New Jersey in the 1920s. Negro League teams often played in the park, including Englewood's own Cubs and world-famous boxers like Jack Dempsey would attend matches. Owned by the Knights of Columbus the Park became the Englewood Arena in 1930 and was operated by the Bergen County Sportsmen Club. -
Lombardi, Vincent Thomas (1913-1970)
Vincent Thomas Lombardi was an athletic coach for the National Football League (NFL). He was the coach of the Green Bay Packers in the 1960s. He also coached the Washington Redskins. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame and has an NFL Super Bowl Trophy named after him.
Lombardi also coached outside of the NFL. He was a coach at St. Cecilia High School in Englewood. He gained the school national recognition as he led the football and basketball programs to state championships. He also attended the church as a parishioner. He also coached at Fordham University and West Point.
Lombardi was also known for his fight against racial discrimination, helping to bring integration into the League. Lombardi also had no issue with Gay players and protected them from discrimination.
Lombardi was a second-generation Italian immigrant. He married Marie Planitz on August 31, 1940. His first child miscarried. He had a son, Vincent Henry Lombard Jr., and a daughter, Susan. His grandson, Joe Lombardi is also an athletic coach for the NFL.
He passed due to cancer. -
Winfree Youth Foundation
The Winfree Youth Foundation was created by American Football player Juwann Winfree to provide sports camps and leadership conferences for local youth.
Carl Winfree, Juwann Winfree's father, is the co-founder. The headquarters are located in Englewood. -
Sherman White's Jersey Titans v. Wilt Chamberlain's All-Stars at
Dwight Morrow High School (1960)Wilt Chamberlain came back from retirement and organized an All-Star team. On April 8th, 1960, Sherman White's Jersey Titans played against Wilt Chamberlain's All-Star team at Dwight Morrow. Chamberlain's All-Star team won the game 119 to 101.Tags Sports -
Nottingham, John "Johnny" (?-?)
John "Johnny" Nottingham was a basketball player for Dwight Morrow High School in the early 1960s.Tags Sports -
White, Sherman (1928-2011)
Sherman White was a basketball player. He grew up in Englewood and attended Dwight Morrow. He got into Long Island University on an athletic scholarship in February 1948. There was a point-shaving scandal occurring that White joined by the end of his senior year. Salvatore Sollazzo paid players to lose games. Long Island University was not the only team involved in the scandal. Sherman was arrested on February 21st, 1951. When arrested, he returned the 5,550 dollars he had received for throwing games. He served eight months and twenty-four days at Rikers. There is speculation White received harsher punishment due to his race. This scandal was career-ending and he was prohibited from ever playing in the National Basketball Association. -
Johnson, Fletcher C. (1931?-2008)
Fletcher C. Johnson was a surgeon and a basketball player. He went to Dwight Morrow High School and was drafted by the National Basketball Association's Syracuse Nationals. He was one of the first African American players to play overseas after he served in the military. After his basketball career, he attended the University of Bologna in Italy receiving a pharmaceutical degree. He graduated with a medical degree from the University of Geneva in Switzerland. He practiced vascular surgery in New City, New York, and Englewood Hospital. He helped start the Maurice Stokes Foundation which supported basketball player Maurice Stokes who experienced a severe brain injury in 1958. He married twice. During the first marriage he had two children, Fletcher Harold and Renee. He married a woman named Jeanne. He had two sons during that time, Benjamin and Fletcher III. -
Basco, Maurice (?-?)
Maurice Basco was a basketball player for Dwight Morrow High School in the mid-1970s.Tags Sports