Collection Name
Collection Name
About
About
Sports: Football and Basketball
Media Items
ItemID
acaa020
IDEntry
3279
Date
1966
Collection Location
Allegany County, Maryland
Coverage
Allegany County (Md.), 1890-2008
Body
Allegany Basketball Team, circa 1966.
From left to right: David Bruce, Nial (Pete) Keys, Kevin Sellers, Steve Lee, Jim Rapson, John Lange, Gary Rymer, Larry Beachy, Bing Rotruck, Rick Haines, Robert (Bob) Powell, Corky Hickle, and Coach Jim Thompson
Keys graduated in 1967, and Powell in 1966. Pete Keys was born in 1949 and passed away in 1976. Keys, along with his brother Rodney and Elaine Frisby, were among the first African-American children to integrate Cumberland's Columbia Street Elementary School in September 1955.