Tom Scott oral history interview, 1993 July 2

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Tom Scott describes his coaching career and his role as the NCAA Basketball Committee chairman, in which he helped bring many basketball tournament events to North Carolina. Mr. Scott talks about his career as head coach for both UNC Chapel Hill and Davidson College during the 1940s and 1950s, how television broadcasting fundamentally changed how basketball was played, and the many basketball tournaments he had a role in bringing to North Carolina, including the 1974 and 1984 Final Fours.

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Basketball and Culture in the Southern Piedmont

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Title: Tom Scott oral history interview, 1993 July 2
Interviewee: Scott, Tom, 1908-1993
Interviewer: Felkner, Peter H.
Place of Publication: Charlotte, North Carolina
Publisher: J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Date of Interview: 1993-07-02
Physical Description: 1 audio file (0:48:55) : digital, MP3
Object Type: sound recording-nonmusical
Genre: spoken word
Language: eng
Interviewee Biography: Tom Scott was a 85-year-old man at the time of the interview, which took place in Charlotte, North Carolina. He was born in Franklin, Kansas in 1908. He was educated at Kansas State Teachers College and was employed as a head basketball coach at UNC Chapel Hill and Davidson College and chairman of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's basketball committee.
Abstract: Tom Scott describes his coaching career and his role as the NCAA Basketball Committee chairman, in which he helped bring many basketball tournament events to North Carolina. Mr. Scott talks about his career as head coach for both UNC Chapel Hill and Davidson College during the 1940s and 1950s, how television broadcasting fundamentally changed how basketball was played, and the many basketball tournaments he had a role in bringing to North Carolina, including the 1974 and 1984 Final Fours.
Digital Object Notes: MP3 access copy created on ingest from WAV preservation master. Interview originally recorded on analog audio cassette and digitized using a Digidesign 003 rack.
Interviewee Occupations: Sports executives
Coaches (Athletics)
Subjects--Names: Scott, Tom, 1908-1993
Subjects--Organizations: National Collegiate Athletic Association
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Davidson College
Subjects--Events: NCAA Basketball Tournament
Subjects--Topics: Basketball
College sports
College athletes--Scholarships, fellowships, etc.
Basketball--Tournaments
Basketball--Economic aspects
Television broadcasting of sports
Discrimination in sports
African Americans--Segregation
Basketball players
Subjects--Geographic: North Carolina--Mecklenburg County
North Carolina--Charlotte
North Carolina--Davidson
North Carolina
Subjects--Genre: Interviews
Oral histories
Coverage--Dates: 1950-2000
Digital Collection Title: Levine Museum of the New South
Digital Collection Series Title: Basketball and Culture in the Southern Piedmont
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This material is protected by copyright. Copyright is held by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Internet Media Type: audio/mpeg
Identifier: MU-SC0059
Handle URL: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13093/uncc:7875

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