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Basketball jacket worn by Ray Werner as a member of the Jersey Wheelers the National Wheelchair Basketball Association Champions, 1954

National Museum of American History

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Description (Brief)
Basketball jacket worn by Ray Werner as a member of the Jersey Wheelers the National Wheelchair Basketball Association Champions, 1954. As captain of the Jersey Wheelers, Ray Werner was a starting forward and leading scorer. Under Werner’s leadership, the Wheelers won the sixth annual National Wheelchair Basketball Tournament, which earned him this jacket. The slogan of the tournament was “Ability Not Disability Counts!”
Ray Werner was paralyzed below the waist during his World War II service on Guadalcanal in July of 1942. He was sent to a rehabilitation hospital, where sports were used in his treatment. Werner, a gifted athlete in high school, was a perfect candidate for a new series of rehabilitation programs initiated by the federal government. Wheelchair basketball was the first sport included in these programs, and Werner excelled becoming a pioneer of the sport. He competed in the first Paralympic Games in Rome in 1960 and continued to help disabled veterans, opening a wheelchair repair shop and installing hand controls in cars for drivers with paraplegia.
Credit Line
David Hoff
1954
ID Number
2014.0026.02
accession number
2014.0026
catalog number
2014.0026.02
Object Name
jacket
jacket, adaptive sports
Physical Description
satin (overall material)
metal (overall material)
Measurements
overall: 66.5 cm x 60 cm; 26 3/16 in x 23 5/8 in
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National Museum of American History
subject
Sports
Wheelchair Basketball
Disabilities
Amateur
Adaptive Sports
Record ID
nmah_1461422
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0
GUID (Link to Original Record)
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ae-14cc-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

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