# High Five

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-five/36866>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 14, 2000, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-five/36866 "2000-10-14T02:44:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![malin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/87869e/32.png) [@malin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malin)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2000, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-five/36866/1 "2000-10-14T02:44:23Z")

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Who created the “High Five” gesture?

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2000, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-five/36866/2 "2000-10-14T02:54:16Z")

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> The origin for the “high-five” is claimed by Derek Smith of the 1980 NCAA champion University of Louisville basketball team  
> Smith was quoted in The New York Times, The Sporting News, and other publications as saying that he and his teammates Wiley Brown and Daryle Cleveland wanted something "a little odd  
> " The high-five was created and fine-tuned during preseason practice and introduced to the nation on TV in 1979

from [here](http://www.answersleuth.com/health/diseases/athlete_s_foot.9.shtml#D83)