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B O X S C O R E A Publication of the Indiana High School Basketball Historical Society IHSBHS was founded in 1994 by A. J. Quigley Jr. (1943-1997) and Harley Sheets for the purpose of documenting and preserving the history of Indiana High School Basketball IHSBHS Officers Publication & Membership Notes President Roger Robison Frankfort 1954 Boxscore is published by the Indiana High School Basketball Vice Pres Cliff Johnson Western 1954 Historical Society (IHSBHS). This publication is not copyrighted and may be reproduced in part or in full for circulation anywhere Webmaster Kermit Paddack Dunkirk 1974 Indiana high school basketball is enjoyed. Credit given for any Treasurer Rocky Kenworthy Cascade 1974 information taken from Boxscore would be appreciated. Editorial Staff IHSBHS is a non-profit organization. No salaries are paid to Editor Cliff Johnson Western 1954 anyone. All time spent on behalf of IHSBHS or in producing Boxscore is freely donated by individual members. Syntax Edits Tim Puet Valley, PA 1969 Dues are $10 per year. They run from Jan. 1 – Dec. 31 and Content Edits Harley Sheets Lebanon 1954 include four newsletters. Lifetime memberships are no longer Rocky Kenworthy Cascade 1974 offered, but those currently in effect continue to be honored. Tech Advisor Juanita Johnson Fillmore, CA 1966 Send dues, address changes, and membership inquiries to Board Members IHSBHS, c/o Rocky Kenworthy, 710 E. 800 S., Clayton, IN 46118. E-mail: [email protected] Bill Ervin, John Ockomon, Harley Sheets, Leigh Evans, Cliff All proposed articles & stories should be directed to Johnson, Tim Puet, Roger Robison, Jeff Luzadder, Rocky Cliff Johnson: [email protected] or 16828 Fairburn Kenworthy, Doug Bradley, Curtis Tomak, Kermit Paddack. St., Hesperia, CA 92345.

2016 WINTER ISSUE DITORIAL POLICY outstanding players in NCAA while leading the Hurricanes to a The opinions expressed in competition. notable 23-5 year before graduating. Boxscore by individual authors do Mike McCoy, the tallest member, Mike was joined on the All-Star not necessarily reflect the views of stood an even 7-0, and was named team by another South Sider, 6-0 IHSBHS as an organization. Mr. Basketball for 1958. His team, sharpshooter Carl Stavreti. Stavreti F.W. South Side, had just won the was also recruited by coach Bruce IHSBHS WEBSITE state championship. Later, at the Hale to play at Miami. He starred on Our IHSBHS website address is University of Miami, Mike topped the same team with McCoy and an Indianabasketballhistory.com. the team in both scoring and up-and-coming All-American, Rick You can also enter IHSBHS on rebounding his final two years there, Barry. your favorite search engine.

CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE

1. 1958 Indiana All-Stars……… 1 2. 2016 State Tournaments……. 3 3. Indiana Gyms……………….. 6 4. State Tourney 1916…………. 8 5. Lebanon Tigers book ad…… 16 6. IHSBHS Membership Form..17 7. 2016 HOF Membership……. 18

THE 1958 INDIANA ALL-STARS by Cliff Johnson, Editor The selection of the 1958 Indiana All-Star squad resulted in an average height for the players that exceeded all former squads since the selection practice began in 1939. Moreover, several members of this 1958 team were good enough to become IHSBHS 2016 WINTER ISSUE Page 2 Six-seven Terry Dischinger had twenty years, sixteen of them as 1,687 points overall and was graduated from Terre Haute Chairman. awarded All-America honors in Garfield, and as most of us know, From the Anderson Indians came 1962. He averaged 25.7 points per went on to have a terrific career at 6-1 super shooter Norm Delph, who game for the Hilltoppers that year, Purdue, winning All-America honors wound up with the Green Wave at and his team was invited to the three straight years. As a Tulane University for a couple of NCAA tournament. The team sophomore, he participated in the years, under coach Cliff Wells. advanced to the second round before 1960 Olympics, and after earning a Darrell McQuitty, from Elwood, at being nipped by Butler, 87-86. Dick degree in chemical engineering 6-5, played varsity ball three years Haslam, one of Rascoe’s Indiana embarked on a short but successful for Purdue, like Dischinger and All-Star opponents, was the leader career in both amateur and pro ball. McGinley. He scored 293 points in on that future Butler team of 1962. At another Terre Haute school, 6-6 total for the Boilermakers. Rascoe scored 29 points in the losing high-scoring and rebounding ace Slender Bill Johnson, a scrappy 6- effort. Although being the 20th pick Charlie Hall led Gerstmeyer to two 1 red-haired forward and high- in the NBA draft, he saw no court final four appearances in three years. scoring floor general from the action after being recruited. During Charlie went on to become a 3-year Jeffersonville Red Devils, enrolled at the late 1960s he played three years starter at Indiana University, leading Vanderbilt University in Tennessee in the ABA with the Kentucky the Hurryin’ Hoosiers in rebounds in the Fall. Bill became the leading Colonels. his senior year (10.3) from a forward scorer for the Commodores during But even with the awe-inspiring position. He also averaged a his sophomore and junior seasons, Rascoe in tow, the Kentucky All- palatable 7.7 points per contest for but then succumbed to a debilitating Stars were not perceived to be a one- those three years. illness that shortened his basketball man show this year. 6-8 Harry Todd Indianapolis Crispus Attucks was playing effectiveness. from Russell County High and Eddie represented by 6-5 Edgar Searcy, the The Crawfordsville Athenians, Schnurr from the state champion eighth player on various Attucks’ runners-up to F.W. South Side in the Louisville Xavier were also squads since 1939 to be so selected. state tournament, contributed 5-9 considered potent weapons in the Although showing great promise as a Dick Haslam to the team. Dick was Bluegrass arsenal. Todd was sophomore player at the University the only Indiana All-Star in 1958 Kentucky’s Mr. Basketball along of Illinois, Edgar left school for a under six feet tall. At Butler, he was with co-honoree 6-7 Ralph few years, then re-enrolled at a 3-year starting guard, leading the Richardson from Earlington High. Southern Illinois University in 1965 Bulldogs to a 22-6 overall mark his As a sophomore, Harry was a for a brief stint with the Saluki team senior year (1962) as team captain. standout on the Russell County state while pursuing a degree in A trip to the NCAA tournament was champions. As a senior, he averaged accounting. After graduating, Edgar thus earned, and his team made it to an astonishing 30 points and 20 joined Eli Lilly Co. as an auditor and the third round before bowing out to rebounds per game. He joined CPA. Later he passed the bar exam the University of Kentucky Wildcats. Rascoe to enroll in the fall, at and served as a licensed attorney in The Indiana All-Stars’ coach once Western Kentucky where they Indiana. again was to be Angus Nicoson, became teammates on a strong Tim McGinley, at 6-1, set a city serving his seventh straight year as NCAA tournament contender. The scoring record in Indianapolis while the team’s mentor. 6-0 Schnurr was a definite scoring attending Scecina High School. He The 1958 high school All-Stars of threat from a guard position. Eddie joined Dischinger as a fellow Kentucky were certainly going to be was later a 3-year starter at Notre freshman at Purdue in 1959. Tim nobody’s patsies during the Dame. Another key figure was 6-1 became a mainstay on the upcoming two-game duel in June. Larry Pursiful from Bell County H.S Boilermaker team, concluding a 3- They had some height and muscle in the small community of Balkan. year varsity stint and scoring 615 too, led by 6-4 scoring and Larry later played on high-powered points in 67 games played. rebounding ace Bobby Rascoe, from teams for Adolph Rupp at U.K. McGinley enjoyed an illustrious Daviess County High in Owensboro where in three seasons the team won career as an investment company (KY). Rascoe’s three college 60 games while losing only 19. founder and principal, while serving seasons of varsity later on at Western Larry scored 946 points during that on the Purdue board of trustees for Kentucky University were nothing period and averaged 19.1 his senior less than spectacular. He scored year. Also on the All-Star team were IHSBHS 2016 WINTER ISSUE Page 3 three Kentucky players named was able to keep its lead, but only by course, Rascoe. Rascoe topped Smith: 6-4 Don, from Hazard; 5-8 two or three points. As the clock ran Kentucky’s scoring once again with Allen, from Maysville; and 6-6 Paul, down to the two minute mark, 16 points. There was a tie vote for from Clark County High. Strongman Indiana was holding onto a 69-67 the “Star of Stars” award this year, Al (“the Horse”) Feldhaus, at 6-5, lead. Stavreti, Searcy, and shared by Rascoe and Dischinger. hailed from Boone County H.S. The Dischinger were trading field goals state’s number one scorer and routinely with Todd, Rascoe, and REVIEW OF 2016 STATE another tough rebounder at 6-5 was Schnurr. With one minute TOURNAMENTS Chuck Williams of Louisville remaining, Charlie Hall hit a corner by Central. Those ten players shot to give Indiana a 73-69 lead, but Tim Puet constituted the Kentucky All-Star Rascoe tallied to close the gap again The alma mater song of Cornell squad of 1958. to two points. Stavreti’s free throw University, titled “Far Above The first matchup was held on made it 74-71 with just 24 seconds to Cayuga’s Waters,” is probably the Saturday, June 21 at Butler go. Don Smith missed a technical most familiar tune of its type in the Fieldhouse, with 12,000 spectators foul free throw that would have world. It actually comes from an paying to witness the action. And brought Kentucky to within two 1857 ballad about a girl dying of what action it was! Intensity filled points of Indiana. In the final few tuberculosis. Dozens, if not the air from the opening tip-off. The seconds, Rascoe and Stavreti traded hundreds of schools, have adapted it year’s first day of summer is usually free throws. Indiana’s lead remained as their alma mater. Most readers of expected to be hot, but the sweat at three points, but Kentucky had the this publication will recognize it created this evening was not just ball out of bounds and raced down- when I note that Indiana University from the summer heat. This was a court with it. Schnurr let go a shot at is one of those schools. Gloriana white knuckle affair from beginning the buzzer that counted. However, frangipana. to end. Two well-matched and the Blue-grassers came up one point OK, enough music history. Now talented teams were going at it tooth short. The game ended with Indiana that I’ve got you humming the tune, and nail, prompting many of the paid in front, 75-74. Rascoe led all it’s time to explain that I’m writing attendance to ignore the comfort of scorers with 25 points. This was one about it because I never expected to their seats in favor of standing amid of the most evenly matched games hear it as a school’s fight song. But all the ongoing excitement. and the tightest of endings ever it serves as just that (probably as the Kentucky led Indiana slightly witnessed in the long interstate alma mater, too) for the New Albany throughout most of the first half but series. Bulldogs, winners of the 2016 Class was never able to build a The second game, played in 4A state championship. I was commanding lead. As expected, Freedom Hall at Louisville on June humming it as I left Bankers Life Bobby Rascoe and Harry Todd were 28, was less exciting but still Fieldhouse at the end of this State combining to put most of Kentucky’s interesting. A crown of 14,000 fans Finals, and I suspect I might be points on the board. Rebounds were showed up to see if Kentucky could hearing that song again at the same falling almost equally into the hands exact revenge for the narrow loss a time next year, and maybe in 2018 as of each team. The score was 39-35 week earlier. Repeating the pattern well. New Albany beat McCutcheon in favor of Kentucky by the time the of the first game, Kentucky came out 62-59 to win the title, its second players trotted to their respective fast and built a ten point lead at 20- overall and first since 1973. The locker rooms to plan second half 10 after ten minutes of play. But by seniors on both teams scored a strategies with their coaches. After halftime, the Hoosiers had rallied combined 14 points – seven apiece – maintaining a lead throughout most and erased the idea of a possible so I won’t be surprised if I see the of the third quarter, Kentucky was Kentucky blow-out. They even took same teams on the same floor at the eventually caught by the Hoosiers at the lead, 31-29. By game’s end they same time next year. 50-50 when big Ed Searcy swished had built up a convincing 11-point New Albany sophomore Romeo the nets twice and Charlie Hall hit a margin and won going away, 69-58. Langford was the player everyone charity toss. The fourth quarter kept Dischinger was at his best, winding was talking about before the game, spectators on their feet, as neither up with 23 points. Good assistance with the coaches from Indiana, team was able to gain much of a came from Hall, McQuitty, and Purdue, Butler, and Kentucky all margin. Each began catching fire Johnson. Kentucky’s efforts were there to see him, while no doubt and trading points freely. Indiana led by Pursiful, Schnurr and, of wishing they were competing in the IHSBHS 2016 WINTER ISSUE Page 4 NCAA regionals that weekend. finished 27-1, with the only loss to 1994-98, joins the list of state Langford didn’t disappoint, scoring Pike in the season’s fourth game. championship coaches with Lebanon 28 points (below his 30.3 average). McCutcheon has a sophomore star connections that includes former But what impressed me most about of its own in Robert Phinisee, who Park Tudor coach Ed Schilling, a him was the way he played in the had 13 points and game highs of six Lebanon native, and former Tigers early stages of the game. assists and three steals, but was coaches Glenn Curtis (who also won He scored only one point in the limited to two points and two assists a title at Lebanon) and Chet Hill. first quarter, missing all four of his in the second half. The Trester Many other schools have similar field-goal attempts, and his team as a winner was Charles Phinisee (I don’t lists, of course. I just throw this in whole was only 3-for-13 from the know if he’s Robert’s brother), who because I know Harley Sheets, once floor. But Langford didn’t panic, as was hurt early in the second half. again my gracious host at one might expect a sophomore to do Eddy Collins and Haden Deaton had tournament time, is no fan of either on the big stage. As a true shooter 14 each and Gavin Dunbar 11 for the Shannon or Schilling. More on Park does, he kept putting up his shots, 28-4 Mavericks. Tudor shortly. and eventually they started falling. Langford has 1,303 points in two In 3A, Marion, in its 21st state He scored 11 in the second quarter years and is just 161 points away tournament, tied Muncie Central’s and four in the third, then came up from becoming the leading scorer in record of eight state championships big in the final quarter to finish with New Albany’s long and with a 73-68 victory over Evansville 28, making 11 of 21 field-goal distinguished century-plus of Bosse, another team that knows the attempts. basketball, which goes back to the road to Indianapolis, with eight trips New Albany was up 54-53 in the first state tournament in 1911 and a to the finals and three state titles. final minute when Langford made Bulldog team that finished unbeaten Muncie Central’s eight, of course, is two free throws with 49.5 seconds in the regular season in 1914 under and always will be the record for left to make it 56-53. He hit a coach Edwin Hubble of later championships in the one-class era, reverse dunk with 17 seconds left telescope fame. With two more as two of Marion’s have come since that made it 60-54, which seemed to good years, Langford could join class basketball began. nail things. But play was pretty Marion Pierce and Deshaun Thomas This was a classic “game of runs.” loose in the ensuing few seconds and in the 3,000-point club, and he’s Marion trailed 35-25 at the half, then McCutcheon cut the margin to 61-59 quite capable of making a run at scored a 3A record 31 points in the on a two-pointer and a trey. Damon Bailey’s 3,134. third quarter to go up 56-50 after Langford closed out the scoring by Opposing coaches Jim Shannon of three. Bosse went on a 13-1 tear to going 1-for-2 from the line with 2.6 New Albany and Rick Peckinpaugh go back ahead 64-63, and the two seconds left. McCutcheon had to go of McCutcheon, neither of whom traded leads before Marion took the the length of the floor for a possible had won a state title, entered the lead for good at 67-66 and held on. three to tie, but the in-bounds pass game having coached for a combined This was a very fast-paced game. sailed from one end of the court to 69 seasons, with 1,011 wins – 32 and My notes say “one official just can’t the other and out of bounds without 495 for Shannon, 37 and 516 for keep up.” touching anyone, giving New Peckinpaugh. My notes say this was Reggie Jones of Marion scored 22 Albany the ball back. It was a crazy the largest combined victory total for and his four late foul shots iced the ending to a wild last few moments. two opposing coaches in a state title win, but the Giants’ Juswon White Isaac Hibbard, a junior guard, kept game at the time the game was was my MVP, coming off the bench New Albany close when Langford played. Jack Keefer of Lawrence to score 17 after averaging four in was struggling, scoring 11 in the first North and Basil Mawbey, then of the regular season. Teammates Tim half and finishing with 17. Another Kokomo, whose teams opposed each Leavell had 14 and Vijay Blackmon sophomore, point guard Sean East, other in the 1989 championship 12. had 10 points and a team-high five game, ultimately combined for more Blackmon, of course, is a familiar assists and also looked like someone than 1,400 victories, with Keefer still name in Marion. Vijay’s brother, playing beyond his years. With coaching, but their total at the time James Jr., plays for IU, and his dad, Langford, Hibbard, and East all of the 1989 game was less than the James Sr., had a Hall of Fame career coming back, New Albany certainly number for Shannon and with the Giants before coaching will be top-ranked and favored to Peckinpaugh. Deshaun Thomas and Fort Wayne repeat for 2016-17. The Bulldogs Shannon, Lebanon’s coach from Luers to titles in 2008 and 2009. His IHSBHS 2016 WINTER ISSUE Page 5 52 points in a losing effort in 1983 won. It seems the Panthers can’t Warren, the Trester recipient, who remains the record for a state avoid getting into interesting averaged 22.9 going in, had 11, and championship game, and no one has situations. Tyler Pannell 10 for 23-8 Howe. come within nine points of that mark Marion’s championship was the The 1A game was (cliché alert!) in three-plus decades. first for a member of the once- closer than the score indicated. Blackmon’s coaching opponent, dominant North Central Conference Liberty Christian led throughout, but Shane Burkhart, also is a Marion since New Castle’s 3A title in 2006. saw almost all of a 40-28 third- graduate and was an assistant for the Of course, a lot has changed in the quarter lead evaporate and was ahead Giants before coming to Evansville. NCC since then. New Castle’s no 44-43 with 7:22 left. The Lions then The Bulldogs are another team who longer a member, while went on an 18-0 run to put the game could be returning to Bankers Life McCutcheon, Harrison, and original away. Franklin Nunn had 19 points, Fieldhouse next March, as they have NCC member Indy Tech have been Caleb Hardy 14, Greg Dixon 12, and plenty of talent coming back, led by added. Tech won the 4A title in Ronny Williams 10 for Liberty, 5-foot-9 sophomore Mekhi Lairy, 2014, but didn’t rejoin the NCC until which finished 26-4 and won the first who scored 28 against Marion and the following year. championship for an Anderson averaged 18.1 for the season coming I was expecting Park Tudor, which school since Anderson High in 1946. into the game. Javi Langley, a moved into 3A because of the Brandon Van Sant scored 19 and Eli junior, added 15 for the Bulldogs. success factor, to be in its fifth Combs 10 for Bloomfield, also 26-4. Ethan Thomas of Bosse was the championship game in six years, but Combs won the mental attitude Trester awardee. Marion finished the Panthers lost 66-56 to Brebeuf in award, which was renamed for Ray 23-7 and Bosse 19-11. the regional. Despite my lengthy Craft, a member of the 1954 Milan This game was the big story rambling about the tournament, I state champions who was part of the leading into the state finals, not don’t pay that much attention to IHSAA staff for 25 years, retiring as because of Marion’s attempt to win Hoosier Hysteria until around assistant commissioner in 2008. It’s its eighth crown, but because no one February, so wasn’t aware until I got a well-deserved honor, which I’m knew what the matchup would be to Indy of the turmoil involving sure pleases both Craft’s many fans until late Wednesday night. The former Park Tudor coach Kyle Cox. and those who believe the IHSAA Marion-Griffith semistate Given the situation, it’s probably should disassociate itself from championship game scheduled the remarkable that the Panthers again Arthur Trester because of his well- previous Saturday at Lafayette had to had another outstanding season. documented racial attitudes. be postponed because Griffith’s team As was the case the previous year, I wrote a lot last year about the bus overturned on the way to the the small-school title games were IHSAA success factor and a little game after being struck by a car. All one-sided, with Lapel defeating about the OHSAA competitive 27 people on the bus, plus the car Indianapolis Howe 59-37 in 2A and balance plan, which was supposed to driver and her passenger, were taken Liberty Christian taking the 1A title go into effect this past season. The to hospitals, but there were no life- 64-45 against Bloomfield. success factor seems to have been threatening injuries. All the players My notes on Howe say “deer in accepted with little complaint, and were able to compete four days later the headlights.” The Hornets looked the Ohio plan has been delayed to against Marion in a game the Giants just overwhelmed, shooting 21 2017-18, so there’s not much to be won 60-58 on a buzzer-beating percent from the floor at halftime said about either at this point. putback by Gage Pinkerton, a 6-10 and 27 percent for the game. To Conseco Fieldhouse did not sell junior. Pinkerton’s height seemed show what a sleeper this was, Howe out for either season of the State his sole asset, but at that moment it outscored Lapel 8-6 in the fourth Finals, with attendance at the was a significant one. quarter, a time when most teams morning games being a little more Griffith had made it to the state usually have their highest scoring than 10,000 – a pattern that’s been championship game the previous totals. consistent for several years. year with the help of a court JonRoss Richardson scored 21, However, in Ohio, crowds at the 12 decision. The IHSAA had Triston Carpenter 12, and Kamron individual state tournament sessions suspended Hammond and Griffith Herringon 11 for 26-4 Lapel, which – semifinals and finals in each of from the tournament after a fight in a won its second state title, both under four classes – also continued to trend regular-season game in February, but coach Jimmie Howell, who won the downward. And in my home state of Griffith appealed the decision and 2A crown in 2005. Howe’s Brian Pennsylvania, total combined IHSBHS 2016 WINTER ISSUE Page 6 attendance for four boys and four times in six years. They lost those dissolving. It went down to two high girls championship games played in games by four points, then two, then schools, then one. General Motors Hershey in four doubleheaders was one. employed one in three adults in 17,096. I don’t know how other states compare, but Indiana still appears to be setting the standard, albeit at a reduced level.

INDIANA GYMS FADING AWAY? by Gregory Doyel, Indianapolis Star Columnist

ANDERSON — John Powless drives up as I’m walking a basketball burial ground. Powless, in a white Chevy Blazer with dents on both doors, rolls slowly past the crane and the backhoe and three men in hard hats staring balefully at him. All of us are in the parking lot of the Anderson Wigwam, Exterior Wigwam, the old high school gymnasium that opened in 1961 and has welcomed everyone from the Anderson Indians to the Indiana Pacers to the Harlem Globetrotters. Richard Nixon held a campaign rally here. So did a Kennedy (Bobby) and a Clinton (Hillary). But now it’s decomposing right before our eyes. The parking lot is crowded with mountains of twisted metal and other garbage. There are five overflowing trash bins and two portable toilets. The whole mess is ringed by yellow caution tape. John Powless has his eyes on two desks on the fringes of the trash. “They’re for my wife,” he tells me. “We have two 6-year-olds who need a place to study and do homework.” The Anderson Wigwam was once the second-biggest high school gym in the country. It closed in Anderson Wigwam, Interior 2011(Photo: Gregg Doyel/IndyStar), The 1970s energy crisis devastated Anderson in its 1970s heyday, but Used to be, this was the place for Anderson, eliminating one factory, GM closed its last factory here in some of the best high school one job, one family at a time. Once 1999. Anderson is down to 55,000 basketball in Indiana. The Wigwam a town of 70,000 with three large residents, an aging population with held 8,996 fans and was rocking in high schools and two dozen General thousands of GM retirees. The the 1970s and '80s, when the Indians Motors plants, Anderson started future of Anderson is unsteady as reached the state title game three IHSBHS 2016 WINTER ISSUE Page 7 John Powless sizes up two rain- corporation that already is $11.5 money. Chief Financial Officer beaten desks. Today there isn’t a million in debt. The school is Deborah Williams told The Star cloud in the sky. The sun is shining considering the most sensible and Press the board cannot justify brightly on the decaying homes and painful solution for its athletics spending a small fortune on a facility businesses that surround what was teams: Leaving the fieldhouse, used by a small percentage of once the second-biggest high school perhaps for Southside Middle students, not with the corporation gym in the country. The Wigwam School. facing a deficit of $11.5 million. closed in 2011. The fieldhouse was home to Ray Like Anderson, Muncie had three Twenty miles to the northeast, another historic basketball gym is looking into the same abyss. The building will need at least $265,000 in repairs to be deemed structurally safe (Photo: Nate Chute/The Star Press). Faces of the dead welcome visitors to the Muncie Fieldhouse. They are pictures of state championship basketball teams from Muncie Central, starting with coach Pete Jolly’s champions of 1928 and 1931. Another team picture is so faded, the boys’ faces are disappearing and the words – if there were any – are gone. Muncie Fieldhouse seats about The Muncie Fieldhouse is showing its age 6,000 now, less than its capacity of 7,635 when it opened in December 1928. The crowds aren’t so big anymore, and the grand old gym at the corner of Walnut and Wysor shows its age. Most of the arched windows were bricked in years ago, but today there are heating and electrical and plumbing issues, and that’s not the worst of it. A recent inspection discovered structural problems, with steel risers needing more support and a floor that is breaking apart, rising and falling as if an earthquake has hit the area. School officials say the repairs will cost at least $265,000, and that's just to make the 88-year-old facility structurally safe. Add the cost of Muncie Fieldhouse, Interior repairing deteriorating exterior façade and brick joints, repainting McCallum, Bonzi Wells and that high schools in the 1970s, but the locker rooms coated with what incredible 1960 Muncie Central team elimination of factory jobs in the officials believe is lead-based paint, whose starting lineup featured three Rust Belt hit Muncie hard as well. and replacing a 1950s heating system future NBA players (Ron Bonham, And it’s like what Bruce Springsteen –and what do you have? A Jim Davis and Bill Dinwiddie) and a sang in "My Hometown": “Foreman potential $3 million financial disaster fourth who would play in the NFL says these jobs are going, boys, and for a Muncie Community Schools (Jim Nettles). But it is hemorrhaging they ain’t coming back.” Muncie’s IHSBHS 2016 WINTER ISSUE Page 8 economy shifted over the years to ever. Peek inside the windows of happen 20 miles away, to venerable education and health services, and its Gate 6, and you’ll see an empty Muncie Fieldhouse? Seems population holds steady in the 70,000 hallway save for the John Deere unthinkable, but then, the range. But it's down to one high tractor parked inside. Silver unthinkable is happening in school. insulation hangs from the ceiling. Anderson. Before that 2011 game, On the day I visited Muncie, Down the hall is the trophy case. that 47-42 victory against Bishop cheery signs hanging from lampposts Look hard enough, and you can see Chatard, Anderson coach Ron on Walnut Street celebrate the city’s the trophies are still inside. Hecklinski told the crowd of 3,000: 150th birthday in 2015. The signs The Wigwam now is owned by “The Wigwam is Anderson.” Five outside the Muncie Fieldhouse are BWI, an Indianapolis real estate years later, a demolition permit is ominous. No decision has been company that specializes in Section taped to the window of a gym door. made about the fieldhouse’s future, 42 affordable housing. BWI saved The only signs of life nearby are the but the parking lot here has two trash the Wigwam from destruction in weeds growing in the parking lot and bins, a portable toilet, a tractor and August 2014, agreeing to terms with John Powless, a 1986 graduate of stacks of barricades. A roll of the city and school board of Anderson High, loading two desks yellow caution tape is ready. Just in Anderson five days before the into his Chevy Blazer. case. board’s demolition deadline. But Stew Robinson hit two free throws two years later the Wigwam is the THE BLOOMINGTON they still remember in Anderson, same empty husk, and the parking lot TOURNEYS: 1911-20. both after the buzzer – standing is another blight on a neighborhood # VI: 1916: The final year at alone on the court – to beat that has seen better days. In one pile Assembly Hall crosstown rival Highland for the near the gym, a piece of twisted by 1982 sectional championship. Steve metal is poking through a window, Roger Robison, IHSBHS President Alford missed two, allowing trying to get back inside. Anderson to escape New Castle in To the chagrin of locals, BWI The school year of 1915/16 1983. asked the city of Anderson for $5 coincided with the second year of Madison Heights’ Ray Tolbert million in May to help get the World War I--August of 1914 to played here before winning IndyStar construction project started. That, on November of 1918. The United Mr. Basketball in 1977 and helping top of asking the city to lower the States was not yet involved. During lead Indiana to the 1981 NCAA appraised value of the land from 1916 President Woodrow Wilson ran championship. Anderson’s Troy $11.9 million to $650,000. That for re-election on the slogan “He Lewis played here before winning would provide an enormous tax kept us out of the War.” Wilson Mr. Basketball in 1984 and break for BWI, which did not would be re-elected in November becoming the all-time scoring leader respond to requests for comment. along with Hoosier Thomas Marshall at Purdue. The ABA Pacers of BWI has indicated it plans a $42 (Columbia City) as his Vice Freddie Lewis and Mel Daniels and million housing complex here that President. They defeated Roger Brown and Bob Netolicky already has a website, but some in Republicans Charles E. Hughes and played here in 1969. That was Slick Anderson want BWI, even the Hoosier Charles W. Fairbanks Leonard’s first season. The Wigwam, to go away. “They (Indianapolis). Wigwam’s last game? It was haven’t done anything to the On March 9 of 1916, one day February 2011. Bishop Chatard was building since they bought it,” one before the sectionals began, Mexican in town. Anderson had lost 11 reader of the Herald Bulletin of revolutionary general Pancho Villa games in a row, but it would not lose Anderson wrote in a letter to the (1878-1923) led 100 of his bandits to No. 12, when the horn sounded on editor. “What else will they want, attack the U.S. Army 13th Cavalry the Indians’ 47-42 victory. and does it even guarantee they will Regiment at Columbus, NM; The Wigwam was in trouble, get this project started and finished?” allegedly in search of horses and everyone in Anderson knew that, but Wrote another: “Just tear it down. military equipment (Figure 1, P. still it was a shock several months Really tired of hearing about it.” Villa). Eighteen Americans were later when the school board closed it, So it is. The Wigwam, once the killed. Shortly thereafter, Congress citing the $550,000 annual cost to pride of Anderson and a symbol of a passed an Army Bill to encourage maintain the facility. Five years later thriving basketball town, is now an students to join the National Guard. it still sits empty, emptier now than annoyance. Will the same thing Students could earn $1.00 a week IHSBHS 2016 WINTER ISSUE Page 9 plus $1.50 an hour for “drilling,” way to play I.U. in Indianapolis [1]. severe fire damage in 1883. During plus $1.50 a day when “in camp.” Two special trains on the Big Four 1884-1908, the campus began Enlistment was normally for three Railroad [Cleveland, Cincinnati, moving northeast to the area of a years. Chicago and St. Louis] had been 160-acre farm owned by the Dunn chartered on October 31 to take 1500 family since they arrived from passengers to the game at the neutral Kentucky in 1823. It was bordered site of Washington Park in by 3rd and 10th streets and Indiana Indianapolis. After rounding a curve and Jordan Avenues in Bloomington, near 18th Street, the lead special where the numbered streets run east- collided with a coal train which had west. By 1897, I.U. had purchased inadvertently been backed onto the 51 acres of Dunn’s woods and main line. Thirteen Purdue players meadowland, including what later and four other passengers were became Jordan Field for the baseball killed. One of the victims was Harry and football teams. I.U. decided to Figure 1 G. Leslie, who was captain of both build the new gym on a hill just The lucky devils at Indiana and the football and baseball teams. He north of Jordan Field, on East 7th Purdue who signed up for this easy was pronounced dead at the scene Street (Fig. 3, I.U. - Dunn Farm). money found themselves on the and was removed to a mortuary. As Mexican border when the Guard was the morticians began embalming, “called up” in June 1916. From June they discovered a pulse and rushed until March of 1917, President him to a hospital where he lingered Wilson sent 5,000 troops under near death for weeks. Leslie General John “Black Jack” Pershing eventually recovered to graduate into Mexico in pursuit of Villa. with a law degree and become They never caught him. Students Governor of Indiana while walking were “mustered out” of the Guard with a cane for the rest of his life. just in time to be drafted into World Purdue’s Memorial Gym honored War I by April 1917. Young men, the memory of those who died in the ages 21-30, faced conscription wreck. The front stairway had 17 Figure 3 beginning in May of 1917. National steps for each of the deceased. Guard and army service would affect Memorial was the home of the Big This was the site of the former home high school and college teams and Ten basketball champions of 1911, of Moses Dunn. It contained over coaches from 1916 to 1919, as ’12, ’21,’22, ’26, ’28, ’30, ‘32 and 200 old apple trees. On October 23 history now records. ’34. The gym seated around 2500 of 1915, the IUBC organized about The Indiana University Booster’s (Fig. 2, Memorial Gym). At the 500 males and supplied them with Club (IUBC) was still funding the 2003 centennial of the wreck, a hand axes and saws, while 200 co- high school tourney in Bloomington tunnel in Ross-Ade Stadium was also eds supplied food and apple cider in whereas the Indiana High School dedicated in memory of the the assault on the apple orchard Athletic Association (IHSAA) was in deceased. In 2006, the gym was (Figure 4). W.L. Bryant, the charge of determining eligibility and renamed “Felix Haas Hall.” the organization of the play-offs. I.U. was in the process of building a new men’s gym, which would replace the 1896 Assembly Hall and be ready for the 1917 Tourney. Purdue had replaced an old barn gym with its new Memorial Gym in 1909, when coach Ralph Jones was lured away from Wabash. The Memorial Figure 2 Figure 4 Gym (1909-34) was dedicated to the Indiana University (I.U.) had President at I.U. from 1902-37, took memory of the 1903 football team started out at the corner of 2nd Street part in the event (Figure 5). involved in a fatal train wreck on its and College Ave but had suffered Miraculously, no one lost an IHSBHS 2016 WINTER ISSUE Page 10 appendage of any kind. The new County (Crawfordsville, Wingate) or White (G), senior M. McCormick gym would open in January of 1917 Boone (Lebanon, Thorntown), teams (C), junior Harry DeVol (F), and and seat 2500, matching the number from there were always highly sophomore Gerald Gardner (F). of seats at Purdue. Naturally, the regarded. Lebanon had already sent Junior George White (G) and builder, A.E. Kemmer of Lafayette, 11 players to various Indiana freshman Fred Adams (F) came off was shocked to find seven feet of colleges, including five to Purdue [6] the bench. Thus, Lebanon was solid limestone rock underneath the loaded with underclassmen and only soil at that site [2,3]. Table B. Pre-Tourney Favorites [2, 5] one senior starter. Lebanon lost four Favorites Records Crawfordsville 19-3 games when they split with Fairmount Academy 12-3 Crawfordsville, defending champ Vincennes 12-3 Liberty Center 16-3 Thorntown, Lafayette, and Kokomo: 14-3 Anderson. [6] Hopewell 11-3 Cicero 18-3-1 In 1915 there had been fourteen Lebanon 15-4 sectional elimination tournaments for Lafayette 12-4 Seymour 11-4 the 153 schools that paid to enter. Richmond 16-4 Three schools had to forfeit in 1915: Bloomington 11-5 Thorntown 14-9 Wea Twp. (Tippecanoe Co.), Valparaiso ??? Warsaw, and Moorefield (Jefferson Wingate ??? OTHERS Co.). The number of sectionals Muncie 12-2 increased to sixteen for 1916 as 198 Washington 13-5 New Castle 11-6-1 schools entered. In 1916 three Rochester 16-7 sectional sites were dropped and five new ones chosen: Gary, Terre Haute, Crawfordsville had an outstanding Martinsville, Logansport, and record (19-3) and returned four Vincennes. Five schools had to starters from 1915: Grimes (F); forfeit in 1916: Rochester, Warsaw, Manson (C); Hunt (G); and Coffing Swayzee (Grant Co.), Brook (G), as well as sixth man Klendworth (Newton Co.) and Interlaken (F). Coach L.J.C. Freeman (1887- (LaPorte Co.). Travel expenses and Figure 5 1949), a teetotaler known as Brandy, unanticipated illnesses could be had started for the Wabash Wonder daunting for some small schools, but 1916 Season Records & Favorites Five in 1905-08 when they were it was startling when Rochester The IHSAA had arranged for an mythical national titlists in ’06 and forfeited to Akron in its own increased number of sectional ’08. For 1916, he started the four sectional (Table C). elimination tournaments for 1916 holdovers from 1915; three seniors because the number of paid entries and junior Grimes, plus senior Clay Table C. Sectional Sites 1915-16 [4] Bunnell at forward. Seniors Site Number of teams had increased by almost 29% 1915 1916 (43/150) [4]; Table A. Klendworth (F) and Maxwell (G) Anderson 11 16 came off the bench. The team’s Bedford 11 13 Bluffton 15 12 Table A. Tournament Entries 1911-16 [4] three loses came when they split with Crawfordsville 11 14 Year IHSAA Entries Tourney Format Wingate, Lebanon and New Franklin 14 11 Members Kokomo 10 11-1* 1911 222 12 Limited to Invitations Richmond [7]. LaFayette 10-1* 12 1912 244 13 Limited to Invitations Lebanon was 15-4 and its coach, Lebanon 16 10 1913 258 38 Open to IHSAA schools Richmond 08 13 1914 314 77 Open to IHSAA schools Ward Lambert, was widely Rochester 9-1* 13-2* 1915 387 153 14 sectional divisions considered the best in the state. Seymour 8-1* 11 1916 448 198 16 sectional divisions Vincennes - 10 Lambert had a record of 14-4, 19-4, Logansport - 14 and 17-5 for his three previous years Martinsville - 12 Prior to the sectionals, several Gary - 13-2* teams were noted to have excellent at Lebanon. He had lost four senior Terre Haute - 13 starters from 1915 and returned only Hammond 10 - records and were, thus, considered Brazil 10 - the favorites [2,5] (Table B). And, juniors big Frank Little and George Evansville 10 -__ White. For 1916, Lambert started Paid entries: 153 198 as all five previous winners had *forfeits -3 -5 come from either Montgomery Little (G), sophomore sensation Don Totals: 150 193 IHSBHS 2016 WINTER ISSUE Page 11 SECTIONALS: MARCH 10-11, 1916 TERRE HAUTE. Clinton unorganized games during 1911-13. [2, 8, 9, 10,11 ] Clinton > Brazil 26-24 Tournament sites & key games, with Clinton > Glenn 44-08 In ’14 it joined the IHSAA, went 6 W-L records (when known) Clinton > Sullivan 30-11 and 1, and traveled to Bloomington Clinton > Rockville 24-16 ANDERSON: Cicero (22-3-1) VINCENNES: (15-3) for the open tourney in ’14 where it Cicero > Mt. comfort 73-9 Vincennes > Jasper 93-9 lost its first game. In 1915 it was 15- Cicero > Yorktown 45-15 Vincennes > Evansville 47-27 Cicero > Muncie 23-19 Vincennes > Washington 33-23 6 and in ’16 it went 13 and 4, Cicero > Anderson 18-12 OTHER TEAMS Pre-tourn. Post-tourn. winning its own initial sectional. BEDFORD: Bloomington (14-5) Richmond 16-4 18-5 Bloom. > Bedford 29-13 (lost to Brookville at Richmond) Sophomore Claude Curtis led the Bloom. > Owensburg 33-9 Rochester 16-7 16-8 team[12]. Bloom. > Salem 25-14 (forfeit to Akron at Rochester) BLUFFTON: LibertyCenter (20-3) Thorntown 14-9 16-10 Measles had infected Rochester Liberty C > Hudson 44-15 (lost to Lebanon at Lebanon) and had incapacitated three of the Liberty C > Bluffton 30-29 Washington 13-5 15-6 Liberty C > Pleasant Lake 42-31 (lost to Vincennes at Vincennes) seven member team selected to play Liberty C > Huntington 32-19 Muncie 12-2 14-3 in the tourney. Rochester attempted CRAWFORDSVILLE: (23-4) (lost to Cicero at Anderson) Crawfords. > New Market 39-16 Fairmount Academy 12-3 15-4 to play with just four boys against Crawfords. > Pine Village 62-27 (lost to Kokomo at Kokomo) Akron, but Cole collapsed with a Crawf. > New Richmond 61-18 New Castle 11-6-1 12-7-1 Crawfords. > Wingate 53-09 (lost to Richmond at Richmond) high fever and had to be sidelined, FRANKLIN: Hopewell (15-3) Frankfort 04-17 5-18 leading to the forfeit. Hopewell > Morristown 17-16 (lost to Amo at Lebanon) Hopewell > Franklin 28-11 Jasper 01-4 1-5 After Rockville beat all the Terre Hopewell > Shelbyville 33-17 (lost to Vincennes at Vincennes) Haute schools, Clinton won the Hopewell > Trafalger 36-19 GARY: Valparaiso; two forfeits At Anderson, Cicero (18-3-1) sectional there. Vincennes got even LaPorte > Interlaken 2 - 0 with Evansville and started 100 years Whiting > Brook 2 - 0 lived up to its billing and surprised Valpo. > Crown Point 39-10 the big boys in the Gas Belt; taking of animosity by whipping Jasper, 93- Valpo. > LaPorte 30-29 9. Previously, the Alice’s had gone Froebel > Whiting 28-16 out Muncie by four and Anderson by Valpo. > Froebel 25-15 six. At Bedford, Bloomington won 3-5, 4-5, 5-6, and 2-2 from 1911 to KOKOMO: (17-3); one forfeit ’14. However, it went 9-3 in 1915 Fairmont > Swayzee 2 - 0 in both 1915 and ’16 with the same Kokomo > Sharpsville 63-16 four starters: Wells (F), Easton (F), and now with 15-3 headed into the Kokomo > Windfall 45-19 state finals. This was the first of the Fairmont Acad.>Fairmont 25-24 May (C), and Louden (G). At Koko. > Fairmount Acad. 25-21 Bluffton, Liberty Center [16-3] record 67 single-class sectionals it LAFAYETTE: (16-4) would win through 1997 [11]. Lafayette > Boswell 80-11 edged the host by one, and took out Lafayette > Chalmers 48-13 three others by an average of 17+ As usual, the sectional winners Lafayette > Monticello 29-22 would be provided free room and Lafayette > W. Lafayette 55-12 points. At Crawfordsville, the host LEBANON: (18-4) decisively took the rubber match board at the ten Greek fraternities Lebanon > Rossville 29-16 and other independent clubs at I.U., Lebanon > Thorntown 15-12 from Wingate 53-9, while averaging Lebanon > Amo 41-11 53.75 points a game. just as in 1915. However, LOGANSPORT: Washington Twp. Martinsville disdained the fraternity W.Twp. > Walton 69-06 Lafayette, a city of 21,000 at the W. Twp. > Peru 34-13 time, had finished 12-4 for the environment. The team rented a W. Twp. > Bringhurst 31-25 private house, hired a cook and W. Twp > Logansport 29-16 season after splitting home and away MARTINSVILLE: games with Montmorenci, Lebanon, purchased its own food and drink. Mart. > Manual 29-19 Due to the automobile standards of Mart. > New Bethel 33-13 Kokomo, and Monticello. It won Martinsville > Southport 49-17 the rubber from Monticello by seven 1916 and the lack of decent roads to RICHMOND: Brookville Bloomington (lasting until 1952), Brookville > Mt. Summit 35-12 and beat the hamlets of Boswell, Brookville > Liberty 46-20 Chalmers and West Lafayette by 69, train travel was the only reliable way Brookville > Carthage 31-30 to get there. You had your choice of Brookville > Richmond 19-17 35 and 43 points. Lebanon took out ROCHESTER: Elkhart: (9-4); 2 forfeits the defending champ Thorntown 15- either the Monon or Illinois Central Akron > Rochester 2 - 0 railroads, as no changes were Medaryville > Warsaw 2 - 0 12 in its rubber match. The starting Elkhart > Plymouth 27-17 guard at Kokomo, Fred Bell, died of honored on the Wabash Cannonball. Elkhart > Nappanee 20-16 Assembly Hall seated 1250, and Elkhart > Culver 20-15 appendicitis just prior to the Medaryville > Akron 35-18 Sectional. Fairmont Academy, the 1200 of those seats were sold in Elkhart > Medaryville 19-16 advance. Bloomington High fans SEYMOUR: (15-4) darling of the 1915 final four, lost to Seymour > N. Vernon 53-13 Kokomo by four. bought 150, Martinsville 125, and Seymour > Moorefield 50-18 Crawfordsville and Lebanon took 50 Seymour > Vevay 53-12 Another newcomer was Seymour > Milan 37-19 Martinsville which played a few each. IHSBHS 2016 WINTER ISSUE Page 12 STATE FINALS: 16 Teams. [2, 8, FTs. Bloomington was led by Cicero, final score 34-23 9, 10] forward Easton who scored five FGs, Described as a crew of giants, There were two officials for the and Loudon a guard with two FGs. Valpo was led by forward R.F. tourney, one for each game: Merle Senior forward Cliff Wells scored Loring with 8 FGs. It led 17-13 at Abbett and Bert Westover. Four one FT. Bloomington committed halftime and committed four PFs rules in effect for the 1916 tourney three PFs and no TFs, while Lebanon compared to six for Cicero. Cicero had a bearing on the games [13]. (1) sank 3 of 3 FTs. had 3 TFs, while Valpo had none. Substitutions were permitted at any time if the scorer and the timer were (Game 2) 10 am: Martinsville vs. (Game 6) 4 pm: Vincennes vs. both notified. However, no re-entry Washington Twp, final score 53-22 Brookville, final score 18-16 was allowed once a player left the A Martinsville blowout by 31 Neither team seemed to warrant a game (a 1904/05 Rule). (2) points was led by center C. Kriner win. Vincennes committed nine PFs Violations with the ball such as with ten goals, forwards Sanders and had four TFs leading to 13 FTs traveling or double dribbling were with seven goals, and Claude Curtis for Brookville which made only 2 of called Technical Fouls (TFs). These with five goals. The guards added its 13 FTs. Vincennes made only 2 TFs counted toward a five foul another nine points. Both teams of 13, as well. The Brookville player limit and then free throws committed four PFs and the winners center, Bossert, had 6 FGs but were awarded. For 1910/11, that also had two TFs. Martinsville made missed 8 FTs. Brookville committed was changed and the TFs did not 3 of 4 FTs, while Washington made six PFs and had 7 ball violations count toward the five foul player only 2 of 6. (TFs), mostly double dribbling, that limit, but free throws (FTs) were still led to the 13 FTs for Vincennes. awarded (until 1922/’23). All (Game 3) 11 am: Liberty Center vs. Fortunately for Vincennes, it had personal fouls and TFs resulted in Elkhart, final score 28-25 Von Trees who scored 16 points on 7 one and only one FT for the other Liberty made a fashion statement FGs and 2 FTs. team and was in effect for the entire with lavender and yellow uniforms. 40 minutes of the game. (3) Due to Its team also scored 12 goals and (Game 7) 5 pm: Kokomo vs. the 1910/11 rule change in TFs, the four FT to win by three over a one- Seymour, final score 37-13 next year player ejections became man team. Stahr of Elkhart scored The taller Kokomo squad blew enforced after only four fouls on a 23 of his team’s 25 points--11 goals Seymour out with 14 FGs and 9 of player (that rule lasted until and one FT. Liberty was led by 12 attempted FTs, compared to 6 1944/’45). (4) A new rule for center Buckner with five FGs and 4 FGs and 1 of 4 FTs by Seymour. 1911/12 decreased a team’s time of 6 FTs. Liberty committed only 2 Seymour committed 12 PFs relative outs from three per half to only three personal fouls. Elkhart had five PFs to only 4 by the winners. per game. and one TF. Liberty converted 4 of 6 FTs. (Game 8) 7:30 pm: Crawfordsville Friday, March 17, 1916 at vs. Clinton, final score 40-17 Assembly Hall (Game 4) 2 pm: Lafayette vs. This was another blow-out (Game 1) 9 am: Lebanon vs. Hopewell, final score 39-27 although the score was only 8-7 at Bloomington, final score 25-15 In a very rough game, LaFayette the half. The Clinton captain, guard In game one, Bloomington was no committed nine PFs and three TFs Nurnberger, who had 3 FGs, fouled match for Lebanon although the while Hopewell had six PFs and one out immediately at the beginning of score was only 10-9 at halftime. TF. It was tied early at 12-all but the second half, after which Lebanon’s two forwards put in four Lafayette led 20-17 at the Half. Crawfordsville dominated by scoring field goals (FG) and three free Guard Donald Tilson and center Ray 32 points to Clinton’s 10. Clinton throws (FT); while center Campbell led the scoring with 8 and committed seven PFs but McCormick caged seven goals. 6 FGs respectively for the winners. Crawfordsville hit none of its FTs Lebanon guards Frank Little and Forwards Cosby and Draper added while scoring 20 FGs. Grimes Don White were scoreless while four FGs and were replaced in the tallied seven goals, while Manson playing superior defense. Lebanon second half by subs Cannon and and Bunnell got six goals each. committed four personal fouls (PFs) Weil. Crawfordsville used Klendworth and and two Technical Fouls (TFs) but Maxwell as subs for Bunnell and Bloomington made only 1 of its 6 (Game 5) 3 pm: Valparaiso vs. Grimes. IHSBHS 2016 WINTER ISSUE Page 13 (Game 9) 8:30 pm: Martinsville vs. edge out Brookville. Vincennes and gash to the scalp which required six Lebanon, final score 16-13 Von Tress opened up with a 12-1 stitches. The last game of the day featured lead before Dalrymple was finally the first contest of the second round inserted. Valpo was still ten back at (Game 14) 3 pm: Crawfordsville vs. (the final eight). It was a defensive the Half: 17-7. In the second half Vincennes, final score 33-17 struggle featuring excellent play by Valpo outscored Vincennes 9-5 but it Coach “Brandy” Freeman the opposing guards: Frank Little was not enough to overcome the gambled against the Vincennes and Don White for Lebanon and disastrous start. Von Tress scored 8 upstarts that had upset Valpo. Using Shireman and Goss for Martinsville. FGs and three FTs to lead the the same tactics that derailed Valpo, At the ten minute mark, there was no winners, while his teammates coach Freeman held Monte Grimes score at 0-0. By halftime it was 4-2 chipped in three points. Loring (F) and Clay Bunnell (F) out and after Martinsville center Kriner got caged 3 FGs for the losers who started subs Orville Klendworth and loose for two FGs and Lebanon committed 6 PFs and had 4 TFs, Fred Maxwell. Klendworth guard Gardner caged one. In the compared to 8 PFs for Vincennes. responded with five FG. second half, Lebanon’s Gardner Crawfordsville led 9-8 at the half as scored 2 FGs and 3 FTs while White (Game 12) 10 am: Crawfordsville vs. Vincennes was a one man show, and sub Adams added two FGs for Kokomo 36-21 with Von Tress scoring 13 of his 11 points. However, Martinsville Crawfordsville had no trouble in a team’s 17 points. After five minutes got 3 FGs from Claude Curtis and 15-point win. Coffing and Hunt, of the second half, Crawfordsville’s one from Sanders, while Shireman both guards, were outstanding. sub Maxwell fouled out. Grimes sank 4 of4 FTs to total 12 second Crawfordsville led out at 9-0, and it then entered and in the last 15 half points. Lebanon committed 4 was 17-6 at the half. Forwards minutes and put in six FGs and two PFs to Martinsville’s 5. Bunnell and Grimes combined for 30 FTs. Vincennes committed eight points in the win, and Mason added PFs to five by Crawfordsville, which Continuation—Saturday, March six. Coach Freeman was able to also was called for six ball violations 18, 1916 at Assembly Hall substitute Klendworth and Maxwell (TFs). (Game 10) 8 am: Lafayette vs. to rest Grimes and Bunnell. Six PFs Liberty Center, final score 60-19 were called on each team. (Game 15--final) 8 pm: LaFayette vs. It was midnight for Liberty Crawfordsville, final score 27-26 in Center, the lavender and yellow THE FINAL FOUR OT. [14] Cinderella team (20-4) from the (Game 13) 2 pm: Lafayette vs. Cosby, the Lafayette captain, was Bluffton area. It was Christmas for Martinsville, final score 29-17 out due to the six stitches on his Lafayette (LAF) in a 41 point rout. Lafayette won handily in a rough scalp sustained in the prior It was 20-0 before Liberty scored. game that saw its aggressive guard Martinsville game, so Cannon Lafayette got 8 FGs each from guard Tilson constantly being knocked started. Crawfordsville won the coin Tilson and center Campbell, while about by Martinsville which was toss and chose the east basket. They forwards Draper and Cosby collected committing ten PFs to only six for rushed to a 6-0 lead on two baskets seven and four goals respectively. Lafayette. Martinsville’s Sanders by Grimes (F) from outside and one Liberty was led by Buckner (C) with (F) and Shireman (G) both fouled by Manson (C) inside. Manson was four goals and five FT. Lafayette’s out. Lafayette led 18-10 at halftime, consistently blocked out by coach Apking was able to substitute and finished with a 12-point margin Lafayette, and the Lafayette center Cannon and Weil to rest Tilson and of victory. Tilson led Lafayette’s Campbell scored three FGs to tie the Campbell. scoring with eleven while collecting score at 6-6 with ten minutes left two PFs. Draper (F) scored an added before halftime. (Game 11) 9 am: Vincennes vs. ten points. Claude Curtis led Tilson had picked up three PFs Valparaiso, final score 22-16. Martinsville with 12. Oddly, it already but somehow managed to This game was considered an appears that substitute Cannon (F) avoid his fourth and final. Tilson got upset. Valpo coach Shafer blundered started in place of Captain Lionel his first FG and Grimes scored his when he tried to rest his big center Cosby (F) and scored three FGs for third, to make it 8-8. Campbell got Dalrymple in the opening half Lafayette. Late in the game Cosby his fourth FG and Hunt hit two FTs against what he considered a weak subbed for Tilson and a minute later for Crawfordsville to tie the game at opponent that had appeared lucky to was knocked down and suffered a 10-10. Lafayette surged ahead 14-10 IHSBHS 2016 WINTER ISSUE Page 14 on a long FG by Tilson and two FTs by Draper, but Crawfordsville came back with a tip-in by Manson and a FT by Grimes. The score was 14-13 Lafayette, at the half. The second half opened with a set play, resulting in Bunnell’s (F) only FG for Crawfordsville throughout the game. This was followed by a FG from Grimes, making it 17-14 Crawfordsville. Lafayette called a T.O., then worked the ball into Draper (F) for a FG, narrowing the margin to 17-16. Both Grimes and Tilson scored again, 19-18. Haigis fouled Grimes who connected with his second FT. Then Grimes and Manson each scored for Crawfordsville in quick succession to make it 24-18 Crawfordsville, at the seven minute mark. Figure 6, LaFayette Team State Champions, 1916 Lafayette then started a remarkable 7-0 run. Tilson got a FT, then a long FG, after which Draper FINAL GAME (F) scored his second FG and Crawfordsville FG FT PF-TF LaFayette FG FT PF-TF (F) Grimes: 06 4 3 - 0 Draper 02 2 0 - 1 Campbell his fifth FG in the post just (F) Bunnell: 01 0 0 1 Cannon 00 0 1 - 0 before the one minute mark. (C) Manson: 03 0 0 0 Campbell 05 0 0 - 0 (G) Hunt: 01 0 1 3 Tilson 05 1 3 - 1 Lafayette had captured the lead at (G) Coffing 00 0 0 0 Haigis 00 0 1 - 0 25-24. At this point, Lafayette called 11 4/7 4 - 4 12 3/8 5 - 2 its third and final T.O. When play Instead of a shield or plaque, TILSON--K. HAIGIS--L.CANNON- resumed the “rough house” Tilson LaFayette was awarded a large -T.WEIL--C. APKING, COACH. was “laid out” and Lafayette had to Silver cup (Figure 7. The Cup) [15]. Every newspaper had its own all- call an illegal fourth T.O. Draper On the front, the inscription read: state team; Crawfordsville went with was accessed the PF. This brought “Winners of State High School the one selected by tourney referees Grimes of Crawfordsville to the line, Basket Ball Tournament, Indiana Abbott and Westover. Tilson-LAF, and he made his third FT to even the University.” The backside of the cup Grimes-CFV, and Frank Little-LEB, score at 25-25 as time ran out. All State Teams: The overtime was for five Referees Abbott Indpls. I.U. Indpls. Indpls. minutes. Both teams appeared & Westover News I.D.S. Star Times F-Tilson-LAF Von Tress Stahr-Elkhart Tilson Campbell exhausted and no player could hit a F-Grimes-CFV Grimes Grimes Grimes Grimes FG from outside. Tilson caught a C-Manson-CFV Campbell-LAF Manson Manson Manson G-Hunt-CFV Tilson Tilson Hunt Tilson bullet pass under the basket and G-Little-LEB Little Little Little Little scored his fifth FG with 90 seconds I.D.S. 2nd team Star 2nd News 2nd News 3rd Times 2nd left. That gave Lafayette a two point F-Von Tress-VIN Von Tress Stahr Gardner-LEB Stahr lead at 27-25. Hunt and Bunnell F-Bunnell-CFV Gardner-LEB Curtis-MTV Draper-LAF Von Tress C-Parker-KOK Parker Buckner-L.C. Manson-CFV Parker missed long shots before Grimes was G-Hunt-CFV White-LEB Hunt May-Bloomington Hunt fouled trying to score. He sank the G-Haigis-LAF Haigis Haigis Findling-Valpo Haigis FT, and Lafayette regained the lead is inscribed: Jefferson High were unanimous selections and again at 27-26. Then the gun Lafayette, IN, COSBY-- Manson-CFV was close. Tilson later sounded and the game was over. C.DRAPER--R.CAMPBELL--D. played at Purdue from 1918-20 and Lafayette was the new state champ (see Fig. 6, Lafayette team). IHSBHS 2016 WINTER ISSUE Page 15 Campbell played there in ’18 and and at Wabash [1908-11]. While at 9. Indianapolis STAR March 1916. ’20. Wabash (class of ’11) he was an 10. Indianapolis TIMES, March associate coach for Jones at CHS for 1916. the ’09 team. He coached at 11. Sheets, H.; Indiana High School Lebanon from 1913-16 and then took Basketball Review; Self-published. over at Purdue for 29 years. His [no date]; (Sectional Winners 1915- record of 11 Big Ten titles from 97). 1921-40 has been tied but never 12. Courtesy of IHSBHS member broken [18,19]. Coaches Jones and Curtis Tomak. Lambert brought national 13. Knudson, T A.; The evolution of prominence to both Wabash College men’s amateur basketball rules and and Purdue. the effect upon the game

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THE TRI-COUNTY CRADLE From 1904 until 1918 the epicenter of the high school game and the college game in Indiana was the tri-county area of Montgomery, Boone and Tippecanoe Fig. 8. Crawfordsville High claimed mythical state prep titles in ’04, ’07, and ’09 while Lebanon, Wingate, Crawfordsville, Thorntown and Lafayette won the first eight state tournaments. Coach R.R. Jones (1883-1951) excelled as the basketball coach at both Wabash College [1905-‘09] and Figure 8 Purdue University [‘10-‘12]. At REFERENCES (microfiche); Thesis D.P.E.; Crawfordsville High School (CHS), 1. Purdue Wreck - Wikipedia, the Springfield, MA, College; 1972. Jones won three mythical state prep free encyclopedia: 14. The Crawfordsville Journal for titles. He captured the Indiana state https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purdue March 1916. college title at Wabash College (’05- _Wreck 15. Courtesy of IHSBHS members ‘07) where he was 75-6 during 1905- 2. Indiana Daily Student, October Jeff Luzadder and Kermit Paddock. 09. He was 14-1 against Big Ten 1915-March 1916. 16. ESPN editors; ESPN College opponents. Wabash ranked 3. Arbutus I.U. yearbook for 1916. Basketball Encyclopedia; Ballantine, nationally during ‘05-’08, earning 4. May, Bill; Tourney Time; Guild NY; 2009. mythical national titles in ’06 and Press, 40 Monument Circle, 17. Kaprick, A.A. ; Boilermaker ’08 (Premo-Poretta poll) [16]. Jones Indianapolis; 2003 Basketball ; Bonus Books, Chicago;, was lured to Purdue when it opened 5. IHS-BHS CD of season records. 1989. its new Memorial Gym in 1909. He 6. Sheets, H., Paddock, KN.; Tiger 18. Wilson, K.L., Brondfield, J. ; tied for the Big Ten title at Purdue in Basketball; self-published; 2013. The Big Ten ; Prentice-Hall, NJ; 1911 and ’12 before leaving for a 7. Whalen, Bob; Crawfordsville 1967 higher salary at Illinois [17,18]. High School Basketball Record 19. Ratermann, D. The Big Ten; Piggy Lambert (1888-1958) Book; self-published; 1996. Sagamore, Champlain,IL; 1996. played for Jones at CHS [1904-07] 8. Indianapolis NEWS March 1916. IHSBHS 2016 WINTER ISSUE Page 16 IHSBHS 2016 WINTER ISSUE Page 17

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