John Chaney (basketball, born 1932)
John Chaney was an American college basketball coach, best known for his success at Temple University from 1982 through 2006. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2001 and the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006.
Chaney coaching the Temple Owls in 2006
Temple University is a public state-related research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist minister Russell Conwell and his congregation Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia then called Baptist Temple. On May 12, 1888, it was renamed the Temple College of Philadelphia. By 1907, the institution had revised its institutional status and been incorporated as a research university.
Postcard depicting the original Baptist Temple and Russell Conwell
President Harry S. Truman visits Temple University.
Martin Luther King Jr. lecturing at Temple University in 1965
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