 Welcome to WilmegaTV, where we cover topics from hip-hop, reality TV, black consciousness, entertainment, politics, you name it, if it's making noise around the globe, we cover it, share it with you and give our own unique perspective. Today, I'm going to share a special interview, an exclusive interview with you on none other than Cecil Moleson, who is Cecil Moleson, you ask? Cecil Moleson is a former high school basketball player at Overbrook High School. He played for the Overbrook Hill Toppers. Yes, long before they were the Overbrook Panthers, they were the Overbrook Hill Toppers. From there, he went on to play for none other than Temple University, Varsity Basketball there. Left there and went on to play professionally for the Washington Generals, traveling the globe with the Globetrotters. From there, the Eastern Professional Basketball team. And then finally, the head coach for Overbrook High School, where he coached arguably the greatest basketball player to ever touch a basketball, Wilton Norman Chamberlain. Yes, I'm talking Cecil Moleson. Cecil Moleson, yep, he signed this basketball for me long before he passed. Cecil Moleson is our subject today in a three-part series. Before you check out part one, part two or part three, I'm simply going to ask you to click subscribe, click like or dislike. I don't really care. That's up to you. Add a comment in the comment section. And if you're really feeling me, if you're really feeling me, Cash App, Wil Mega. That's dollar sign, Wil Mega. That's dollar sign, W-I-L-L-M-E-G-A. Stay tuned. So coach, who are you? I know you're a coach, but tell us who you are. Okay, when I was 22, I was a student teacher at Overbrook High School and I was recommended to be a coach about one week before school opened. And I was in Fizette, a temple, played a temple, had a scholarship, a temple, played with the Harlem Globetrotters, became a principal in Transifany Sound, met President Reagan in the Rose Garden, coached at Upper Moreland, William Tennant, Archbishop Kyle Gurrells, and taught in the Philadelphia Community College. So what year, Bob, were you asked to coach at Overbrook High School? I coached in 1952 for three years. Okay, cool. So how'd you even get involved in basketball all year? Did you play basketball? I played basketball at a temple and had a scholarship at a temple and was in Fizette, a temple, and I was in student teaching at Overbrook where I went to high school and played there at Overbrook. What years did you play at Overbrook? I played in 1946 and 47. Who was your coach? A fellow by the name of Juan Wilder. It was an all-Jewish basketball team that won 20 straight basketball games. Did you guys go on to win the championship or how was it set up back then? We played in the championship and lost by one point to Bartram. And my best friend is the one who beat us. Wow, what's his name? Gil Shore. So as you were playing back in 1946, did you have any clue that you would one day become the basketball coach of the basketball player ever? Never dreamed of it. It was like a miracle. They didn't want a hiring during the summer. They interviewed about 100 guys and one week before school opened they called me and said, would you like to be the coach? Well, I didn't sleep anymore for that month. So you become the coach of Overbrook High School and tell me about how you decided to pick the guys on your team? Well, it was easy. Some of them played the year before and they were all friends of Wilpa. They were all great athletes. One of the athletes was Arie Davis who became the Olympic Hop 7 Jump Champion of the United States and coached LaSalle and Track. Another one was Mel Broski who played at Temple. Another one went to the Harlem Globetrotter. So they were all pretty good players. There's been much said about the size of the original Overbrook High School gym. Talk to me about the size of that gym compared to Jim's today. The gym was very small. Two-thirds of the size of a normal gym. And I played on the junior varsity and to make the junior varsity you had to dribble up and down the court and make 50 baskets in five minutes. And it took me about four times before I finally made it. Okay. So was the court still 10 feet high back then, though? Yes. The baskets were. Folks made a lot to do about how high Wilpa jumped and how long did he jump. How high? How long? Well, Wilpa could jump 12 feet high. The baskets were 10 and he could get up to about 12 feet. And he was a high jumper and a 440 and 220 track star and he could really go up and down the court like in four dribbles. Wow. So the rumor, the rumor, you know, it's not too many people who are around to witness it. There's a rumor that Wilpa Changley could jump and would dunk his free dribble. Did he dunk the free dribble? Yes, he did it a couple of times. He didn't do it frequently. He was a foul shooter in high school, but he could do that. And could you say exactly what he could do because most people won't be able to hear my voice from the film? Yeah, he would stand at the foul line and shoot the ball and if it missed the basket, he would follow it up and dunk it. The changing of the rules, did you speak to how he impacted the rules of the game? He's the only professional athlete who changed rules in the game. He changed the free foul shot lines from six feet to twelve feet and then he changed the dunking rule and the blocking rule because he would do it every time. Now there's a story, you talk about how he got kicked off the team. You kicked him off the team, but we're going to come back to that because I want you to have an opportunity to go fully into that. Do you really have girlfriends in high school? What was the fanfare like? He had a lot of Jewish girlfriends, but he didn't have 20,000 of them. What was his hardest challenge on the court? There were no harder challenges. He could do everything. Were there any players that he played against that presented any challenges for him? Well, the only one that may have presented a challenge was a senator at West Philly who was six foot nine, but West Philly lost six games in three years and all six games were at Overbrook. Wow, wow. There are stories about him playing or working for Red Hour Back in the summer. Yeah, we worked at Cutcher's Country Club. I worked with Red Hour Back coaching the players there and it was a bellhop at Cutcher's Country Club. How old was he then? He was 17. And so is it true that he played against the number one college recruit that went to the pros while he was there? Well, the only summer country clubs had teams from all the colleges in the country and he played against the best. Wow. Talk to me about the Quaker Town save. Is that ring a bell? No. Okay, what was playing for the Quaker Town phase, semi-protein while he was still at Overbrook? I've seen some newspaper play. I'm not familiar with that.