Born 20 July 1932, in Pittsburgh, Rooney was a high school quarterback, then attended Duquesne, receiving a degree in accounting. Chances of winning If Harden has a playoff run of the ages, the Rockets could absolutely pull this off. “I want to work with the 120 male and 60 female development academies to collect standardized and re. are black or white,” John Wooten, the chairman of the Fritz Pollard Alliance, a group dedicated to making teams aware of top black coaching candidates, told the Guardian in January.