“ CHAMPIONSHIP BASKETBALL “ 1941 BASKETBALL TRAINING FILM WITH CCNY COACH NAT HOLMAN XD81635

Join this channel to get access to perks: Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit Visit our website “Championship Basketball“ features Nat Holman, the famed coach of the City College of New York, speaking about the great game. The film covers the fine points of basketball as played by “bigtime“ college teams. Among the court strategies discussed by Holman are the pivot (plus variations), screens, retrieves / rebounds, defenses versus pass plays, the properly executed layup, overloading, the shifting zone defense, the sliding man-to-man with zone principle, and others. The film was released in 1941 by Official Films. Holman was known as “Mr. Basketball“ during his lifetime. He was an American professional basketball player, college coach, a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and is the only coach to lead his team to NCAA and National Invitation Tournament (NIT) championships in the same season. We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: “01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference.“ This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit
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