FIRST - Use of the Basketball 24-Second Shot Clock - Syracuse, NY
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A plaque recounting the first use of the 24-second shot clock in basketball is located on a shot clock on S. Franklin Street near Armory Square in Syracuse, NY.
Waymark Code: WMMM23
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 10/06/2014
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The 24 second shot clock revolutionized the game of basketball and is credited with saving the profession game of basketball. It was first used in a high school scrimmage game in Syracuse, NY in 1954.
A double faced 24 second shot clock with a pair of matching round bronze plaques is on display in a busy marketplace in downtown Syracuse. The plaque is inscribed with the history of he 24 second clock and describes its significance for the game of basketball.
The 24-second "Shot Clock"
1954 - Syracuse, New York
This clock honor the rule that changed basketball and saved the
National basketball Association. The 24-second shot clock, which put
an end to stalling tactics that were threatening the league, was used
for the first time in an NBA scrimmage organized by Danny Biascone on
August 10, 1954 at Blodgett Vocational High School in Syracuse. In the
first season with the clock, league scoring would rise by 13.6 points
per game.
Coach Howard Hobson of oregon and Yale is credited with the original
idea, and many helped Emil Barboni and leo ferris. It was Ferris and Biasone who
devised a formula for the shot clock, selecting "24" by dividing 2,880
(the number of seconds in a 48-minute game) by 120 (the average
number of shots in a game).
Because of the vision and persistence of Biasone, president and founder of the Syracuse Nationals, his fellow NBA owners embraced the shot clock, now used in some form on almost every level of the game.
Dedicated here on March 26, 2005, in the presence of surviving members of the Syracuse "Nats", 1955 Champions of the NBA.
The original shot clock is at LeMoyne College,
is 25% smaller in size with one clock face.
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