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The Dover Basketeers were a youth basketball team with boys aged 11 to 13 from Dover, Ohio, sponsored by the local Elks Lodge and coached by George Elford who did exhibitions in the style of the Harlem Globetrotter from 1955 through 1963. They appeared in a 1961 Jerry Lewis movie, The Errand Boy and on the Ed Sullivan show. they performed at halftime of NBA games and with the Globetrotters.