the last time the generals beat the globetrotters was 1971.
the last time the generals beat the globetrotters was 1971.
when was the last time the generals beat the globetrotters?
1971
klotz played for the philadelphia sphas of the abl until 1947; the team had beaten the harlem globetrotters on more than one occasion. he later coached and managed the sphas. in 1953, after playing on several all-star teams against the trotters during their first international tours, klotz was approached by globetrotters owner abe saperstein about having his team tour with the globetrotters and play them on a regular basis. klotz named his new enterprise the washington generals, in honor of dwight d. eisenhower. from 1953 until 1995, the generals played exhibitions against the globetrotters, winning only two games and only one recognized by the trotters, the last in 1971, and losing more than 14,000.
red klotz
scholars have debated the origins of the conflict, but the causes are seen as increased labor and taxation demands when indigenous populations were low, and when tribute in kind obligations were mandated to be in cash, forcing the indigenous into the spanish economy. the rebellion took on an explicitly religious and anti-spanish character, which "did not demand reform and justice within the regime. instead, they challenged spanish sovereignty, the clergy, and religious legitimation." local populations believed that the virgin mary had miraculously appeared to a young, married, indigenous woman, maría de la candelaria, outside the community of cancuc. the local priest, father simón garcía lara doubted the miracle and had the indigenous who believed in it whipped. since the people of cancuc wished the cult to be recognized and had not found that approval by the local priest, they sought out the bishop and sent a delegation to ciudad real. the bishop imprisoned most of them, but some escaped to tell of the mistreatment. an indigenous man, sebastián gómez de la gloria, came to cancuc from nearby chenalho and declared the solution to the problem of non-recognition of the virgin’s cult by the catholic hierarchy was to create an indigenous religious hierarchy. the various indigenous towns raised military units, which were organized along a similar hierarchy to spanish colonial units. they targeted local the spanish population, wiping out spanish troops, killing spanish children, and carrying off the spanish women as concubines. the spanish women were forced to dress in indigenous attire and perform manual labor, such as grinding corn. following the defeat of the revolt in 1713, these spanish women were brought before the mexican inquisition and questioned intensively. the spanish military forces defeated the indigenous soldiers of the virgin. the town of “cancuc was obliterated and its inhabitants moved to other towns.” the spanish authorities had been alarmed at the size and the direction the rebellion had taken, a coordinated, multiethnic revolt that defied spanish civil and ecclesiastical authority, necessitating a major military response. “the defeat of the revolt was so thorough that it left the province devastated and in deeper poverty.” the spanish executed nearly a hundred participants and those who escaped were relentlessly pursued over years.
tzeltal rebellion of 1712