Basketball jacket worn by Ray Werner as a member of the Jersey Wheelers the National Wheelchair Basketball Association Champions, 1954
date: label: date made
content: 1954
name: label: maker
content: Empire Sporting Goods
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: 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!”
label: Description (Brief)
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Wheelchair Basketball
label: web subject
content: Disabilities
label: level of sport
content: Amateur
label: web subject
content: Adaptive Sports
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
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content: Sports & Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: David Hoff
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2014.0026.02
label: accession number
content: 2014.0026
label: catalog number
content: 2014.0026.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jacket
label: Object Name
content: jacket, adaptive sports
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: satin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 66.5 cm x 60 cm; 26 3/16 in x 23 5/8 in