The complete list of state records below shows that the Plains states, far away from the ocean, can be hotter than the humid Southeast. The USA's highest temperature, 134Â° on July 10, 1913 in Death Valley, Calif., is also the official highest temperature in the Western Hemisphere. Ordinary summer heat makes much of the Southwest, including Death Valley, sizzle from June through August.
A year earlier, Pollard and Bobby Marshall were the first two black players in professional football history and helped the Pros win the championship in the NFLâs inaugural season. The Pros ran the single-wing, and Pollard was the player lined up behind the center who received the snaps.
Charles Henry Chuck Cooper (September 29, 1926 â February 5, 1984) was an American professional basketball player. He and two others, Nat Sweetwater Clifton and Earl Lloyd, became the first African American player in the NBA in 1950. Cooper was also the first African-American to be drafted by an NBA team, as the second pick of the second round by the Boston Celtics.