Information About ™Clair Bee |
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Bee's teams won 95 percent of their games from 1931 to 1951 , including 43 in a row from 1935 to 1937 . {Link without Title} Clair Bee also coached the Football team at LIU until it was disbanded in 1940 . {Link without Title} Bee coached the National Basketball Association 's Baltimore Bullets from 1952 to 1954 . His contributions to the game of basketball include the 1-3-1 Zone defense, the three-second rule and the 24-second Shot Clock in the NBA. Bee also authored a series of sports Manual s and the fictional Chip Hilton series of Books for children. Bee was inducted into the Basketball Hall Of Fame in 1968 . The Clair Bee Coach Of The Year Award is awarded every year to a coach who makes an outstanding contribution to the game of College basketball, and the Chip Hilton Player Of The Year Award is awarded to a men's basketball player. Clair Bee was a grandson of Ephraim Bee , a member of the First West Virginia Legislature .
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