Converse is an American shoe company that primarily produces skating shoes and lifestyle brand footwear and apparel.
 Founded in 1908, Converse is one of America's most iconic footwear companies, and has been a subsidiary of Nike, Inc. since 2003.
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The consensus 1957 College Basketball All-American team, as determined by aggregating the results of six major All-American teams.
 To earn 'consensus' status, a player must win honors from a majority of the following teams: the Associated Press, the USBWA, The United Press International, the National Association of Basketball Coaches, the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) and the International News Service.
The consensus 1960 College Basketball All-American team, as determined by aggregating the results of six major All-American teams.
 To earn "consensus" status, a player must win honors from a majority of the following teams: the Associated Press, the USBWA, The United Press International, the National Association of Basketball Coaches, the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), and The Sporting News.
The consensus 1946 College Basketball All-American team, as determined by aggregating the results of four major All-American teams.
 To earn "consensus" status, a player must win honors from a majority of the following teams: the Helms Athletic Foundation, Converse, The Sporting News, and True Magazine.
The consensus 1958 College Basketball All-American team, as determined by aggregating the results of six major All-American teams.
 To earn "consensus" status, a player must win honors from a majority of the following teams: the Associated Press, the USBWA, The United Press International, the National Association of Basketball Coaches, the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) and the International News Service.
The Consensus 2002 College Basketball All-American team, as determined by aggregating the results of four major All-American teams.
 To earn "consensus" status, a player must win honors from a majority of the following teams: the Associated Press, the USBWA, The Sporting News and the National Association of Basketball Coaches.
The consensus 1963 College Basketball All-American team as determined by aggregating the results of five major All-American teams.
 To earn "consensus" status, a player must win honors from a majority of the following teams: the Associated Press, the USBWA, The United Press International, the National Association of Basketball Coaches, and the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA).
 1963 was the last year that the NEA was used to determine consensus All-American teams.
Conrad Eugene Van Gent (December 23, 1889 – June 12, 1949) was an American football and basketball player and coach.
 He served as the head football at the University of Texas at Austin in 1916, at the University Farm, now the University of California, Davis, in 1920, and at Stanford University in 1921, compiling a career college football record of 14–8–3.
 Van Gent was also the head basketball coach at the University of Missouri (1914–1916), Texas (1916–1917), and Stanford (1921–1922), tallying a career college basketball mark of 42–19.
 Van Gent played football and basketball, and ran track at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
 He was selected to the College Basketball All-American team in 1914.
The consensus 1959 College Basketball All-American team, as determined by aggregating the results of five major All-American teams.
 To earn "consensus" status, a player must win honors from a majority of the following teams: the Associated Press, the USBWA, The United Press International, the National Association of Basketball Coaches, and the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA).
The consensus 1961 College Basketball All-American team, as determined by aggregating the results of seven major All-American teams.
 To earn "consensus" status, a player must win honors from a majority of the following teams: the Associated Press, the USBWA, The United Press International, the National Association of Basketball Coaches, the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), The Sporting News, and the National Collegiate Association Bureau (NCAB).
 1961 was the only year where the National Collegiate Association Bureau teams were used in determining consensus teams.

Question: Which company, founded in 1908 has a role in picking the 1946 College Basketball All-American team?
Answer: Converse