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Class of 1990
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Junius Kellogg
Junius Kellogg made his way into the national limelight in 1951 when he exposed a national basketball gambling scandal. Manhattan College’s first African-American player and star center, he was offered a bribe of $1,000 to shave points. Kellogg informed his coach of the attempted bribe and helped police to catch the gamblers. It was eventually uncovered that 32 players from 7 national powers had fixed 86 games between 1947 and 1950. This, however, was not the final act of courage for the Portsmouth native.
Kellogg began his basketball career on I.C. Norcom High School’s outdoor cinder track. The players sold candy bars to raise money for their uniforms. In addition to playing basketball, Kellogg sang in the Boys’ Glee Club and played football. After graduating from I.C. Norcom, he enrolled in West Virginia State College.
His college career was interrupted when Kellogg was drafted into the Army in 1945. He received the first Army Area Outstanding Athlete of the Year in 1948 for playing on championship teams in basketball, football, softball, swimming and table tennis. Following his discharge from the Army, Kellogg entered Manhattan College in 1949.
Kellogg played for the Harlem Globetrotters after his graduation from Manhattan College. An automobile accident on his way to a game in April 1954 left Kellogg paralyzed from the waist down. He spent four years in rehabilitation, but was never able to walk again. His passion for basketball persisted, and Kellogg began coaching the Pan American Airlines wheelchair basketball team, the Pan Am Jets. Under his leadership, they became the powerhouse of the National Wheelchair Basketball Association. His coaching philosophy was based on conditioning, as evidenced by his team’s trademark of a full court press for the entire game. Kellogg’s coaching record is unsurpassed in the history of the National Wheelchair Basketball Association.
From 1957 until he retired in 1964, his teams won the Eastern Wheelchair Basketball Championship each year. In 1959, the Pan Am Jets won the National Basketball Association Crown and came in 2nd in 1960. Kellogg coached the US Paralympic Basketball Team for five years and led them to win the World Championship in each of those years.
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