Coach Clarence Big House Gaines spent 47 year as as coach and athletic director at HCBU Winston-Salem State University. As such, he became the fifth-winningest coach in NCAA basketball history (behind Adolph Rupp, Dean Smith, Bobby Knight, and Jim Phelan of Mount St. Mary's College) and the winningest African-American coach. His autobiography recounts the early days of the game when players would show up at the bus station hoping for a scholarship, through the difficult days of Jim Crow segregation and eventual integration.
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Coach Clarence Big House Gaines spent 47 year as as coach and athletic director at HCBU Winston-Salem State University. As such, he became the fifth-winningest coach in NCAA basketball history (behind Adolph Rupp, Dean Smith, Bobby Knight, and Jim Phelan of Mount St. Mary's College) and the winningest African-American coach. His autobiography recounts the early days of the game when players would show up at the bus station hoping for a scholarship, through the difficult days of Jim Crow segregation and eventual integration.
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