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Renaissance Big Five Basketball Team, 1925

The New York Renaissance, also known as the Renaissance Big Five and as the Rens, was an all-black professional basketball team established in 1923, by Robert "Bob" Douglas in agreement with the Renaissance Casino and Ballroom. The Casino and Ballroom at 138th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem was an entertainment complex including a ballroom that served as the Big Five's home court. Following each game, a dance took place. The success of the Rens shifted the focus of black basketball from amateur teams to professional teams. The Rens were one of the dominant basketball teams of the 1920s and 1930s. The team played its first game on November 3, 1923. That night they played a team of white players; interracial games featured regularly on their schedule, drawing the largest crowds. During the 1932-33 season they won 88 consecutive games, a mark that has never been matched by a professional basketball team. In 1939, they won the first professional basketball championship, when they beat the Oshkosh All-Stars, a white team, 34-25, in the World Professional Basketball Tournament in Chicago. The team compiled a 2588-539 record over its history. The Rens disbanded in 1949 after completing the 1948/49 season of the racially integrated National Basketball League as the Dayton Rens based in Dayton, Ohio. Photographed by James VanDerZee.
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Renaissance Big Five Basketball Team, 1925
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The New York Renaissance, also known as the Renaissance Big Five and as the Rens, was an all-black professional basketball team established in 1923, by Robert "Bob" Douglas in agreement with the Renaissance Casino and Ballroom. The Casino and Ballroom at 138th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem was an entertainment complex including a ballroom that served as the Big Five's home court. Following each game, a dance took place. The success of the Rens shifted the focus of black basketball from amateur teams to professional teams. The Rens were one of the dominant basketball teams of the 1920s and 1930s. The team played its first game on November 3, 1923. That night they played a team of white players; interracial games featured regularly on their schedule, drawing the largest crowds. During the 1932-33 season they won 88 consecutive games, a mark that has never been matched by a professional basketball team. In 1939, they won the first professional basketball championship, when they beat the Oshkosh All-Stars, a white team, 34-25, in the World Professional Basketball Tournament in Chicago. The team compiled a 2588-539 record over its history. The Rens disbanded in 1949 after completing the 1948/49 season of the racially integrated National Basketball League as the Dayton Rens based in Dayton, Ohio. Photographed by James VanDerZee.
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25.4 x 31.8 cm | 10.0 x 12.5 in (300 dpi)
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