{"id":78750,"date":"2023-03-16T04:00:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=78750"},"modified":"2023-03-17T11:30:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T15:30:13","slug":"throwback-thursday-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/03_16_2023\/throwback-thursday-26","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>An outstanding college athlete from Akron, Harold Anderson was hired as UToledo\u2019s basketball coach, then a part-time job, in 1934. He took a \u201cCinderella\u201d team to the National Invitational Tournament in 1937, and in 1942, he led his team to a third-place finish. Anderson also recruited and supported Black players during a time when basketball was predominantly a white sport.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Harold-Anderson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-78751\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Harold-Anderson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Harold-Anderson.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Harold-Anderson-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/03_16_2023\/throwback-thursday-26\"><img width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Harold-Anderson-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><p>An outstanding college athlete from Akron, Harold Anderson was hired as UToledo\u2019s basketball coach, then a part-time job, in 1934. He took a \u201cCinderella\u201d team to the National Invitational Tournament in 1937, and in 1942, he led his team to a third-place finish. Anderson also recruited and supported Black players during a time when basketball was predominantly a white sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":78751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[348,50,56,1,298],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78752,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78750\/revisions\/78752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}