Zack Clayton
Zachariah "Zack" Clayton was a basketball player for the New York Rens.[1] He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2017.[2]
As a boy, Clayton played at the Christian Street YMCA along with Charles "Tarzan" Cooper, Jackie Bethards and Bill Yancey. There they began four fruitful careers on a squad called the Tribune Men.[3] Clayton also played for the Harlem Globetrotters.[4] Clayton would win world championships with both teams.[4] Clayton is enshrined in the Philadelphia basketball Hall of Fame.[5] Clayton later became a boxing referee. His most famous bout the 1974 Ali-Foreman "Rumble In The Jungle". Clayton also refereed Muhammad Ali's last fight against Trevor Berbick in 1981.[6]
References
- ^ "Historical Dictionary of Basketball". google.com.
- ^ "Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductees".
- ^ Mangan, JA (2004). Ethnicity, Sport, Identity: Struggles For Status. Routledge. ISBN 0-7146-8458-9.
- ^ a b "The House that Jack Built". google.com.
- ^ "New York Renaissance ('Rens') - The Black Fives Foundation". blackfives.org.
- ^ "Some Harlem Rens Became Famous Boxing Officials After Basketball". blackfives.org.
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