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CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE 1. 1941 Indiana All-Stars……..... 1 2. IHSBHS Membership Notes… 2 3. 'Oh, Say Can You See'………. 3 4. Crispus Attucks History…….. 3 5. The Triangle, 1917…. 8 6. Prez Sez……………………… 12 7. IHSBHS Membership Form.. 13 8. Hall of Fame Membership…. 14

THE 1941 INDIANA ALL-STARS by Cliff Johnson, Editor The 1941 summer classic all-star game pitted the best of ’s Front Row: , Ind. Shortridge; Bob Rowland, Martinsville; Carl Campbell, most recently graduated seniors Kokomo; John Bass, Greenwood; Leroy Mangin, Washington. Back Row: Max Pearsey, nd against those of Indiana, in the 2 Rushville; Mulford Davis, Elwood; Bill Butler, Decatur Central; Don Server, Madison, year of a newly established rivalry. Marshall Koontz, New Castle. The 1940 game had gone to Indiana role in publicizing the game and Although far from being a sellout at by a close margin of 31-29. By the stimulating public interest to assure the vast 15,000-seat arena in spring of 1941, several minor adequate gate receipts at Butler downtown , 6,904 fans wrinkles had been ironed out Fieldhouse during the basketball off- showed up for the tilt. It was a slight between the two Athletic season and the summer’s heat. improvement over 1940’s attendance IHSBHS 2017 WINTER ISSUE Page 2 and the gate receipts generated cohesion, and spirit that had guided War II on Dec. 7, 1941. After enough revenue to cover expenses, the Indians to their first and only serving in the military forces, a with a small amount of profit left state championship in 1941. Deep handful of them enrolled in college over. One of the unusual aspects of into the third period, Indiana’s and played ball at later stages of their the Kentucky line-up this year was strength around the keyhole began to lives. the inclusion of the entire starting take its toll on the Inez boys, and first five from tiny Inez High School Kentucky began to substitute freely IHSBHS MEMBERSHIP NOTES in Martin County (today, Sheldon in order to inject more height into the Many of our IHSBHS members Clark H.S.), 1941 state champions. contest. Mangin, Campbell, and are senior citizens and thus from Rosters for the two squads were as Koontz, however, had taken over at time to time we lose a few to age follows: close range for the , and complications or to the grim reaper. Indiana’s advantage escalated to 48- Nevertheless, such losses do not Kentucky All-Stars 38 with little more than three seem to diminish the overall count of Alex Harmon, 5-9 f (Inez) minutes left to play. The remainder our membership from one year to the Bill Taylor, 6-1 f (Inez) Bob Cooper, 6-2 c (Inez) of the game was essentially anti- next, owing to the steadily increasing Lester West, 5-8 g (Inez) climactic as the margin was readily number of new member enrollments. Joe Kirk, 5-10 g (Inez) maintained by the Hoosiers. The The total active and paid-up John Padgett, 6-2 f (Hardin) final score read 52-41. The box members at present is about 140. John Sieweke, 5-11 f (Ashland) score was as follows: That number does not include those Bob Stout, 6-2 c (Cumberland) Ed Hansel, 6-2 c (Dixie Hts.) whose membership dues have not yet Paul Butcher, 5-5 g (Meade Mem.) Indiana (52) been received for 2018, nor those FG FT TP who have inadvertently allowed their Indiana All-Stars Bass, f 0 1 1 memberships to lapse in 2017. John Bass, 6-0 f (Greenwood) Rowland, f 3 0 6 Prospects for continued IHSBHS Bob Rowland, 6-2 f (Martinsville) Carl Campbell, 6-3 f (Kokomo) Campbell, f 5 0 10 growth look to be certain. Our list of Leroy Mangin, 6-4 c (Washington) Mangin, c 6 2 14 currently active members has been Dave Strack, 5-8 g (Ind. Shortridge) Strack, g 3 0 6 prepared by Sec'y/Treasurer Rocky Max Pearsey, 6-3 f (Rushville) Pearsey, f 0 0 0 Kenworthy and is attached at the tail Mulford Davis, 6-3 c (Elwood) Davis, c 1 3 5 end of this quarterly issue. The Bill Butler, 6-1 g (Decatur Cent.) Don Server, 5-9 g (Madison) Koontz, c 4 0 8 newest members total 25. They are, Marshall Koontz, 6-4 c (New Castle) Server, g 0 0 0 in alpha order, as follows: Trent Butler, g 1 0 2 Anderson, Willamette, IL; Bill Glenn Curtis handled the coaching Boone, Crawfordsville; Tom Brown, responsibilities again for Indiana, Kentucky (41) Fairmount; Mark Buxton, Spr'gfield, while Ed Diddle and Ted Hornback FG FT TP IL; Jerry Cain, Knightstown; Don repeated as mentors for the 1941 Harmon, f 3 1 7 Chastain, Mitchell; Bill Clossin, Kentucky squad. The superior Taylor, f 3 2 8 Chattanooga, TN; Scott Combs, height and size of the Hoosier boys Cooper,c 2 2 6 Pulaski, TN; Rob Evans, Perham, gave them a distinct advantage on West, g 2 2 6 MN; Richard Gill, Suwanee, GA; the boards and near the hoop, but Kirk, g 1 2 4 Jerry Lewis, Hilton Head, SC; Rush Kentucky was flush with speed and Sieweke, f 0 1 1 McColley, West Lafayette; Carl the ability to shoot from all corners Padgett, f 2 1 5 Miller, Thorntown; Jeff Rasley, of the court. Throughout the first Stout, c 1 0 2 Indianapolis; Rich Roberts, half, it looked like an even match Hansel,c 0 0 0 Indianapolis; Dr. Robert Robinson between the two squads. As the horn Butcher, g 1 0 2 Sr., Zionsville; Dr. Bob Robinson sounded to end the first 16 minutes Jr., Barre, VT; Bruce Schooler, of play, Indiana was leading by the Very few of the All-Stars from Munster; William Schooler, Delphi; slim margin of two points, 22-20. either of these 1941 teams were able Larry Sharp, Indianapolis; Dick Kentucky stayed mainly with the to continue putting their basketball Stevens, Debary, FL; Matt Werner, Inez first five on the court talents on display at either the Union Mills; Tom Wethington, throughout the first half, college or pro levels. This was Jamestown. Welcome to IHSBHS, demonstrating the shooting accuracy, largely due to the outbreak of World and enjoy our Boxscore contents. IHSBHS 2017 WINTER ISSUE Page 3 'OH, SAY CAN YOU SEE' captain pulled the ball to his side and team. The first player to average a STOPS A GAME stood at attention. The rest of the triple- double for an entire season, by players for both teams, taking their he holds the NBA’s career record for Leigh Evans, IHSBHS board que, stopped where they were on the triple-double games (181) and member court and did the same. Bench previously held the single-season Editor's Note: While the ongoing coaches, substitutes, and game record of 41 which Russell controversy about certain NFL officials quickly followed suit while Westbrook broke on April 9, 2017. players not paying tribute to our a quick-thinking time keeper stopped The black president of any national national anthem is fresh in our his watch. sports or entertainment labor minds, Leigh Evans, Editor of on- The entire gym would stay frozen organization, he led the National line Hickory Husker, decided to for the better part of a minute. As Basketball Players’ Association’s submit to us this amusing account of the band (awkwardly) ceased class-action, anti-trust lawsuit a 1930 high school game incident in playing, the ballplayers picked up against the NBA, resulting in the which just the opposite kind of where they had left off and young Rule which conduct materialized, quite by Van Bibber resumed his dribble and ultimately made NBA players the accident. Read on. took his shot. No record of whether first pro athletes to receive free it went in or not, but he was not agency. More than 120,000 readers An early season contest in 1930 called for a double dribble. That have been schooled in the between the Sharpsville Bulldogs would have truly been un-American fundamentals of the game through and the home-standing Kokomo Kats or at least un-Hoosier. A newspaper his instructional books “Play Better was stopped dead in its tracks with account at the time closed with this: Basketball” and “The Art of minutes left in the second quarter. "If there is a moral to this incident, it Basketball.” The reason? Kokomo's Band Leader is that even in Hoosier basketball our Mr. Caylor got his signals crossed flag is still there." Kokomo would Long before there was “March and thought it was halftime. For no go on to win, 28-19, but that hardly Madness”—which is now a multi- particular reason, (it seemed), Caylor seems to matter 87 years later. billion-dollar industry—there was suddenly called for "The Star the more localized phenomenon Spangled Banner." CRISPUS ATTUCKS: AN known as Hoosier Hysteria: the run- OVERVIEW up to the Indiana state high school as recounted personally by Oscar basketball championship. High Robertson school basketball in Indiana has long Editor’s Note: This article has an been akin to religion. When I was ESPN Enterprises, Inc. trademark playing at Indianapolis’ Crispus copyright and appears here as a Attucks High School, Butler reprint via courtesy of “The University Fieldhouse in Undefeated.” Formally entitled Indianapolis, site of the final rounds “How an all-black high school team of the tournament, was the cathedral. starring Oscar Robertson changed And the state title was and still is the Hoosier Hysteria,” we’ve shortened holy grail. the title here to fit our Table of Contents. Oscar Robertson, its author and the National Association of Basketball Coaches’ “Player of the Century,” is also an established labor leader, entrepreneur, author, Kokomo Band Leader Caylor basketball ambassador, and an From accounts at the time, advocate of healthy living and organ Sharpsville center Van Bibber had disease prevention. He is in the just crossed half court and was Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall preparing to shoot. However, as of Fame as an individual and as co- sixty some horns began belting out captain of the 1960 gold-medal Oscar Robertson the familiar notes, the Bulldog team winning U.S. Olympic basketball IHSBHS 2017 WINTER ISSUE Page 4 Until 1997, all Indiana high had lost only one game all season, announcer, was now referring to us schools, whether they had 100 and we were not going to lose now. as “Indianapolis Attucks.” Perhaps students or 2,500, were in one single We were comfortable playing at we had opened a small crack in the class and competed for the same Butler Fieldhouse, where we played walls of segregation and title. No matter how poorly a school many of our “home” games anyway discrimination that stood at the time. might have fared in its regular (our school gym was too small to The Klan ‘Brings Us Together’ season, it got a second chance when host basketball games). And we From the time it opened in 1927, the four rounds of the state were eagerly looking forward to the Crispus Attucks had been a tournament began. Today there are traditional champion’s ride on the segregated school. Front four classes instead of one, ranked fire truck and a big celebration organizations for the Ku Klux Klan according to school size from 4a downtown. Or so we thought, had pressured the Indianapolis down to 1a. The tournament’s final anyway. School Board into moving black rounds were moved from Butler No Indiana Farm Boys Here high school students out of the Fieldhouse in 1971 and, since 2000, Butler Fieldhouse was packed general school population into a have been played in Bankers Life with 15,000 fans for that 1955 separate school of their own. All- Fieldhouse, home of the NBA championship tilt on Saturday night, black high schools were built in Gary and the WNBA but it seemed eerily quiet as we took and Evansville as well. Even in the . the floor against Gary Roosevelt mid-50s, the Klan had tremendous Last March, Crispus Attucks made High School, led by slender (editor’s influence in Indiana politics, it to the state finals for the first time word) center Wilson Eison and business, and education. At one in 58 years, competing in Class 3a future NBA star . Even point an estimated 25 percent of all this time around. I would not have Attucks’ fans, confined as always to white men in Indiana were members. missed this game for the world. And a corner of the Fieldhouse and One of the Grand Dragons of the the Tigers did not disappoint, edging surrounded by police, seemed more Klan was based in Indianapolis, from Twin Lakes in a 73-71 squeaker, to subdued than usual as they cheered which he oversaw a “fiefdom” of 23 win the school’s fourth state for their “bad, bad Tigers.” For the states. Our school was named for a championship. Only three other first time, two all-black schools were man of color—part African- schools have won more. The bad, meeting for the state championship. American, part Native American— bad Tigers are back! Not only might Indianapolis have its who was the first casualty of the Breaking a 44-Year Drought first state champion—Indiana would Boston Massacre in 1770 and by Before 1955, teams from smaller have its first all-black state extension, the American Revolution. cities and towns, some so small they champion, regardless. It would also According to legend, the Klan were barely on the map, routinely be a first for the entire country. The marched past our school in a victory won the state title. No school from mythological image of Indiana parade when the school opened. But Indianapolis—Indiana’s largest city basketball for many years was that of the move to segregate us backfired and state capitol—had won the a skinny farm boy shooting at a rusty spectacularly at that time. Attucks championship in 44 years of hoop nailed above the barn door. was overcrowded, and its facilities organized high school basketball. But there were no skinny farm boys substandard compared with other But in 1955, our Crispus Attucks on the court that night. Both teams schools. But most Attucks teachers Tigers had an opportunity to change were made up of kids who had had advanced degrees, and some had all that—we were in the state’s Final developed their games on inner-city doctorates. Excluded from teaching Four for just the second time in the public playgrounds. We had at white schools, these dedicated school’s basketball history Attucks changed the game. We had proven men and women were determined to had been a source of pride for emphatically that our up-tempo style create a superior academic Indianapolis’ black community ever of basketball could be just as environment within the confines of a since its doors opened. Our parents, effective as the plodding, feet-on- segregated school system. our teachers, and our community had the-floor approach many coaches Academics Shaped Everyone at taught us pride in ourselves, inner still favored. And we thought we Attucks dignity and resilience in the face of might have also changed the culture The impetus for academic adversity. Our school was known as as well. Our fan base was now excellence came from Russell A. much for its academic excellence as spreading throughout the city. Luke Lane, Attucks’ principal from 1930 for its athletic achievements. We Walton, the radio play-by-play to 1957. He had a law degree and a IHSBHS 2017 WINTER ISSUE Page 5 doctorate in education and believed membership and the “Hoosier when I was four years old. that Attucks should set the standard Hysteria” that was state tournament Indianapolis was hostile territory if for secondary school education. He competition. Before 1951, Attucks you were black. I was naïve about expanded the curriculum had been focused more on the depths of segregation in accordingly, with college prep “legitimacy,” in gaining acceptance Indianapolis and in the world. We courses included. Lane also in the larger community. Its kids being black, poor, and emphasized cultural pride, discipline, basketball teams played a technically unwelcome outside our own and respect. Athletes were students sound but passive, non- neighborhood, activities were pretty first and foremost, and enjoyed no confrontational game so as not to much limited to school, church, and special privileges. They were also upset anyone. All that changed sports. And basketball was the king reminded that any time they stepped when Crowe, a math and physical of all sports. Guys played from on a court or an athletic field, they education teacher, was promoted sunrise to sundown. There was a were representing not just Attucks, from assistant coach into the head vacant lot near our house, and but the entire black community. And coach position and, against all odds, someone put up a backboard and a while we might not have been aware launched Attucks’ period of greatest hoop. Our games would kick up of it at the time, our quest for a athletic success. clouds of dust, so the lot became breakthrough on behalf of all-black Crowe was totally on board with known as “the Dust Bowl.” Even schools was part of the larger social the Attucks philosophy of academic when we started playing on asphalt context of the mid-50s. The excellence above all else. That did courts at the nearby Lockefield Supreme Court’s landmark decision not mean he was comfortable with Gardens housing project, “the Dust of Brown v. Board of Education had the status quo when it came to Bowl” became the generic name for legally put an end to school basketball. He noted that “Some of anywhere we played outdoors. segregation in 1954, although it the older teachers still thought we Players from Attucks dominated at would take years for the law to be needed to avoid being too aggressive both the Dust Bowl and the Senate fully implemented. Earlier in 1955, and confrontational. ‘I needed to Avenue YMCA, where indoor Marion Anderson—denied the right make them understand that the worse pickup games were played. The to sing in Washington’s Constitution disgrace we could bring to the school older kids didn’t want to play with us Hall sixteen years previously—had was to lose when we had a chance to younger kids, so we had to keep become the first black artist to sing win.” Crowe installed the more up- challenging them until we were at the Metropolitan Opera House. tempo style of play that his players competitive enough to stay on the Later that year, Emmett Till was were already using on the court. brutally murdered in Mississippi, and playgrounds. It was faster, louder, The Dust Bowl was the crucible in his killers were never brought to more stop-and-go, more which my game was forged. I justice. Rosa Parks refused to move improvised—a style that, like jazz, learned the importance of playing to the back of the bus and set off the allowed for individual excellence against people who were better than Montgomery bus boycott that within a team context. You had to you, so you can learn from them and accelerated the civil rights be in great shape to play for Crowe. improve your own game. Every movement. You ran on offense, pressed on moment we weren’t on the court, I Ray Crowe Speeds Up the Game defense. I think he had probably was off to the side, working on my On that Saturday evening in learned from the visionary coach game. I started developing a side- March 1955 at Butler Fieldhouse, all John McLendon that you could play step, fade-away jump shot, releasing we were thinking about was winning an all-out running game and score a it above my head so it wouldn’t be a state championship. Attucks had lot of points while minimizing blocked by taller players. I would come close once previously, turnovers and maintaining discipline, even shoot at night by moonlight reaching the Final Four in 1951 good fundamentals, and strong until the neighbors would tell me to during Ray Crowe’s very first year defense. go home. as head coach. For its first six years, How the ‘Dust Bowl’ Shaped Our Tom Sleet—Coach, Mentor, Attucks was not allowed to play Teams Inspiration against member schools in the My family--dad, mom, older I could practice all day and night, Indiana High School Athletic brothers Bailey and Henry, and me— but I still needed someone to give me Association (IHSAA), and it took 15 had moved to Indianapolis from the direction and structure. That person years to gain admittance to IHSAA farms of central Tennessee in 1942, was Tom Sleet, who coached my 7th IHSBHS 2017 WINTER ISSUE Page 6 and 8th grade teams at Public School Syracuse Nationals and Cincinnati Indiana Officials Association). He No. 17 and freshman basketball at Royals, but I felt he never got the stressed the need to build an early Attucks. He taught us the critical shot at the pro game that he truly lead and keep it. His mantra was importance of the fundamentals— deserved. He died much too young, “The first 10 points are for the that athleticism and gamesmanship, in 1996. refs…the rest are for us.” He also aka basketball intelligence—don’t Flap Puts Attucks on the Map allowed his tallest players to dunk mean anything unless you can Flap made a lasting contribution to the ball during warm-ups, alternating execute consistently. We learned the lore of Indiana high school right and left hands, giving how to pivot, how to box out under basketball. His last second shot opponents a little preview of what the boards, how to set a pick, how to capped a 10-point comeback against they were up against before the game move without the ball. Basically, we perennial powerhouse Anderson in even began. Attucks’ visually were running what is now known as the 1951 state semi-finals and put exciting style of play coincided with the triangle offense, in the seventh Attucks in the Final Four for the first the emergence of television, and grade. Coach Sleet also emphasized time. Even though the team lost in tournament games were now shown the importance of defense and taught the afternoon and would not make it live statewide on TV. I had seen us how to play a tough, intense man- to the Final Four again for four very few varsity games up to this to-man game. More importantly, he years, this win was a turning point point. But when I watched Attucks showed us how to become good for Attucks basketball. Attucks beat Anderson on TV, I got a vision citizens, and gave us self-confidence, teams brought a new flair to the of what I could achieve. a winning attitude, and the game, which horrified basketball Following in my Brother’s encouragement to believe that we purists. Having played pickup Footsteps could succeed on the court and in games at the Dust Bowl for years, In 1953, Bailey graduated and other facets of life. they could play “positionless went on to Indiana Central. And, My first experience facing white basketball” long before that term was thanks to puberty and another players on the same court came when in vogue. They had been further summer of work on the farm, I grew I was in the 7th grade at P.S. No. 17. schooled by Sleet and Albert from 5-8 to 6-3 and packed on some In the 8th grade, we won the city’s Spurlock, who taught industrial arts muscle. As a sophomore, I joined junior high school tournament. and coached track, cross-country, the junior varsity group lined up for People started taking notice, and junior varsity basketball. All tryouts. But Bill Mason, a senior including Attucks coaches who were Crowe had to do was apply the guard I knew well from the Dust in the stands. Some of the older finishing touches. Crowe ran very Bowl, kept beckoning to me. “Come players at the Dust Bowl, seeing how few set plays, but his teams still on over here, Oscar,” he said, “This serious I was about my game, started played with discipline—focusing on is where you belong.” I was the last taking me under their wings and team success, sharing the ball, person chosen for the varsity, and giving me helpful tips. Following working for good shots, deferring to assigned my brother’s old number, our tournament win, we got even the better shooters, and playing 43. Even if you were among the more good news in our household: within themselves without chosen, Crowe made it clear that my oldest brother Bailey, better showboating. And he emphasized your first priority was academics. known as “Flap,” was chosen for that whatever the fans, your All players from grades 9 to 12 met Crowe’s first varsity squad at opponents, or the officials threw at in his home room every morning. Attucks. Flap was always a better you, you were to maintain your poise He called the roll and talked us shooter than I was. And where I was and composure. Keep your cool. He through our homework assignments. quiet and reserved, keeping my true was not going to lose a game on a If grades had been issued, he posted feelings internalized, he was always technical foul, and his players were them for all to see. And then we vocal in speaking up for himself, not either. were off to the other courses on our which often put him at odds with his Starting in 1951, Crowe’s teams schedules. The day was interrupted coach. He went on to star at Indiana were burned by bad calls in the state by a second roll call at mid-day. The Central College (later University of tournament three years in a row. He city fathers wanted to make sure we Indianapolis), setting an Indiana became determined that referees not were all “in our place” and not out collegiate scoring record that stood be allowed to influence the outcome wreaking havoc. I enjoyed school— for many years. Then he played for of a game (this was a tall order since the process of learning, the wisdom the Globetrotters and briefly for the there were no black officials in the our teachers passed on, the personal IHSBHS 2017 WINTER ISSUE Page 7 attention and encouragement they often at Butler Fieldhouse. We be tired in the final game, and we gave us. I was naturally shy and did could draw up to 11,000 people for were right. We pressed them from not raise my hand to volunteer our games, and were supposedly the the beginning, jumped off to an early answers, but I was ready if called best-drawing high school team in the lead and never looked back. We upon. And bit by bit, I came out of country. The gate money went right were up 21 at the half, and the only my shell and learned to interact with back into improving conditions at suspense was about whether we people in settings other than the our school. Going into the 1954-55 would score 100 points. Final score: basketball court. season, our expectations were high. Attucks 97, Roosevelt 74. Eison, Stars Hallie Bryant and Willie O’Neal had graduated, but who went on to be named Indiana’s Gardner had graduated along with Merriweather and Mitchell were “Mr. Basketball,” had 32 points and my brother, and we were considered back from their injuries. We had a set a three-game tournament scoring an unknown quantity for 1953-54. I solid, deep squad, and another year’s record. I had 30 with a bit of time was assigned to play forward and, experience playing together. We left, but when I saw a little-used sometimes the pivot as well. I came finished the regular season 20-1, senior forward named Willie Burnley off the bench to score 15 points in losing only to Connersville where we open near the basket, I felt it was our opener and started after that. My had fallen too far behind to mount a more important for him to get into game wasn’t yet as consistent as I comeback on their wet, slippery the championship scoring column wanted it to be, but we were court and came up one point short. than it was for me to tie the record. winning—despite season-ending Then it was on to the sectionals, the A Celebration Denied injuries to Willie Merriweather, regionals, and the semi-state, where When the final horn sounded, we Winford O’Neal, and Sheddrick we faced basically the same Muncie could not contain our jubilation as Mitchell, our three tallest and most Central team that had lost to Milan we raced onto the court. There’s a talented players. By this point I was the previous year. picture of me on a ladder, cutting assuming more of a leadership role, Stealing the ‘Game of the Century’ down the net with a mile-wide smile and coach moved me to guard so I Central and Attucks had traded on my face. But our win came with could bring the ball up and create No. 1 rankings all season long, and a bittersweet aftertaste. As we more movement on offense. Even some of the media were calling this climbed aboard a fire truck for the without our star threesome, we were “the game of the century.” And it traditional ride downtown, followed still competitive till the very end of was a close, hard-fought battle. by a caravan of our fans cheering for the season. In the semi-finals, After numerous lead changes, their “bad, bad Tigers,” we had a however, we lost 65-52 to tiny Milan Central had the ball for a last shot strange feeling about the trip. And High School which was en route to a with ten seconds left, but I when we got to Monument Circle, 32-30 championship win over deliberately played well behind my we didn’t stop and get off to join our perennial powerhouse Muncie man and then leapt forward to steal fans in celebration. There would be Central, thanks to “the shot” by the pass and seal a 71-70 win. In the no downtown celebration. Instead, Bobby Plump. And we took one first afternoon game of the finals, Mayor Alex Clark read a brief small step on the cultural side. As New Albany put up a good fight, but tribute, we took another lap around we advanced through the we pulled away at the end and won the Circle, and then our parade was tournament, superintendent of 79-67. In the second game, Gary redirected to Northwestern Park in schools H. L. Shibler arranged for Roosevelt had its hands full with the black section near Attucks, where cheerleaders from all the Fort Wayne North before winning, 25,000 people celebrated around a Indianapolis schools to join forces 68-66. Between the afternoon and huge bonfire. That’s when it hit me. with our cheerleaders for the first evening games, neither Attucks nor It seemed like it was OK for us to time. It became a tradition from that Roosevelt teams were permitted to win for the city, and bring pride to point on. rest in ’s dorms the general population, but we were 1955 Could Be Our Year during the break, although white still considered second-class citizens. As Attucks’ popularity grew, our teams had always done so during I hung around for a while, but I “team without a gym” cut down on previous tournament weekends. The really wasn’t in much of a mood to road trips and began playing more Roosevelt players stayed with celebrate, so I went home. Soon Indianapolis schools—sometimes at families in town, while our team was enough, we learned that city officials the Arsenal Tech arena on the east crowded into a downtown hotel had called principal Lane before the side of town, and more and more room. We figured Roosevelt would finals and informed him there would IHSBHS 2017 WINTER ISSUE Page 8 be no celebrating downtown. accomplished something that could and Phil Jackson (1945-) Merchants and city officials were never be taken away. championed the "Triangle Offense," concerned that if our “colored” fans The ‘Bad, Bad Tigers’ Are Back the state of Indiana had its own were permitted to celebrate at Attucks’ success had unintended revered "Triangle"--located from Monument Circle, they would riot, consequences. Middle-class blacks Crawfordsville to loot and destroy businesses, shoot began enrolling their kids in schools to Lebanon High. In 1917, all three out the street lights, and engage in all other than Attucks, and those schools locations saw continued success. other sorts of unspeakable mischief. also snapped up the black student Crawfordsville High School Can’t Bring Back the Thrill athletes who lived in their districts. (C.H.S.) & Once we learned what the city Despite his 179-20 record over seven At the Crawfordsville point of the fathers had done to us, I was furious. years, and three consecutive trips to Triangle, C.H.S. had lost the To this day, I cannot forget the pain the state finals, Coach Crowe was heartbreaking final game of 1916 in of being rejected in my own never named Indiana Coach of the overtime to Lafayette. Its All-State hometown. Our Attucks Year. Bill Garrett, a former “Mr. junior Monte Grimes had been the championship teams have since been Basketball” who had been the first second highest scorer at the 1916 celebrated several times, but there’s black player at Indiana University, finals, scoring 52 points, just behind no way to bring back the innocent succeeded Crowe as coach in 1957 Lafayette's Tilson at 54. Grimes had excitement our group of deserving and led Attucks to its third title of the rashly (?) enlisted in the National black teenagers—who had earned the decade in 1959. Crowe had been Guard in 1916 and was called up for celebration—was looking forward to promoted to athletic director when a nine months of military duty on the at that point in time. The following new principal replaced Dr. Lane. Mexican border. He was not year, when we won our second The traditional fire truck ride released until February 1917 and consecutive state championship, downtown was discontinued 45 years appeared in only the last five games capping off an undefeated season ago, when the state finals were of his senior season. C.H.S. finished and a record 45-game winning moved from Butler Fieldhouse to the season with a 7-18 record. streak, I refused to take part in Indiana University’s Assembly Hall. Wingate, led by freshman Alonzo another bogus, second-class Lockefield Gardens and the Dust Goldsberry, captured the 1917 celebration, and just went home after Bowl no longer exist, having given Montgomery County sectional. the game. away long ago to the campus of However, Wabash College was It was obvious that if basketball’s Indiana University—Purdue enjoying its second "Wonder Five," a popularity discouraged racial University Indianapolis, and IU throwback name used for its original discrimination, the public at large Health University Hospital. 1906-08 Wonder Five. The team had still not gotten the memo. Attucks was spared the wrecking was led by former high school All- Athletic excellence might change ball but was downgraded to a junior State players Homer Stonebraker attitudes on a personal and cultural high school in 1986. In 2006, it (1914 Wingate), Abe DeVol (1915 level, but it could not by itself end became a high school once again--a Lebanon), and Francis Bacon (1913 institutionalized segregation and medical magnet school serving the South Bend). See Fig. 1 of the 1917 discrimination. Fortunately for hospital. But it seemed that its days Wabash team. Wabash was ranked history, Bob Collins, a sports of basketball dominance would #2 nationally, with Stonebraker reporter for the Indianapolis Star, remain a distant memory. In the last making the All-America second accurately chronicled all Indiana couple of years, however, the team. Wabash played all its home high school athletic teams, including program has been rejuvenated and games at the local Crawfordsville Crispus Attucks basketball, despite I’m betting that last March’s visit to YMCA before getting its own enduring continued harassment from the state finals and its championship campus gym after the 1917 season. whites. And that first Indiana state will not be its last. I’m proud to say championship remains one of the that the “bad, bad Tigers” are back. Wabash College 1916/17 = 19-2=ranked #2 highlights of my playing career, Coach Paul Sheeks along with the gold medal won by THE HOOSIER TRIANGLE Ind. Dental College: 53-5 # : 28-26 our undefeated 1960 U.S. Olympic TRIUMPH OF 1917 Purdue: 17-9 basketball team and the Milwaukee by Roger F. Robison $ Indy-Em-Roes: 32-21 Illinois Wesleyan: 32-20 Bucks’ first and only NBA title in Long before coaches Sam Barry * YMCA College: 61-42 1971. Against all odds, we had (1892-1950), Tex Winter (1922-), Rose Poly: 63-7 IHSBHS 2017 WINTER ISSUE Page 9 Illinois Ath. Club: 20-28-L L. Smith (1883-1926). When Smith '15) at guard, centers Alf Smith *YMCA College: 40-32 $ Indy-Em-Roes: 28-23 left Purdue for UC-Berkeley in 1916 (Thorntown ('15) and Paul Hake * St. Mary’s College: 30-22 he took Vaughn with him. Smith's (Gary H.S '13), along with Herbert Earlham: 51-11 * Georgetown: 44-12 record was 30-10-3 at Penn, then 12- Hart at the other guard with Robert Notre Dame: 25-18 6-3 at Purdue, and finally 74-16-7 at Markley and E.J. Williamson at State 19-20-L DePauw: 29-7 UC-Berkeley where he became a forwards. The Boilers finished third Indiana: 20-17 legend with three mythical national in the Big Ten (see Table 1), while Notre Dame: 27-17 DePauw: 36-20 titles before dying of pneumonia at continuing its mastery of Indiana Rose Poly: 35-16 age 43. But Assistant Vaughn, like University. Miami-: 41-17 * Unknown location. Monte Grimes that same year, $ semi-professional team. injudiciously joined the National Purdue vs. Indiana 1901-04: P.U. won 8, I.U. 0 1905-08: P.U. won 3, I.U. 3 1909-13: P.U. won 10, I.U. 0 1914: P.U. won 1, I.U. 0 1915: P.U. won 2, I.U. 0 1916: P.U. won 1, I.U. 1 1917: P.U. won 2, I.U. 0

During this period and beyond, Indiana was light years away from the Triangle in athletics success. The Hoosiers would labor with basketball coaching turnover problems until 1925. Football was the foremost college sport, as it commanded the greatest numbers for player participation, spectator attendance, and revenue--as true then Figure 1 as it is now. From 1892 to 1912, or even longer, most colleges relied on Pete Vaughn (1888-1969) had Guard and was likewise called up for a motley assortment of individuals to graduated from C.H.S. in 1908. He duty. Like all the other National coach the "minor" sport of played football and basketball at Guard men at that time he was basketball. They might include Notre Dame the following two years. released in the spring of 1917 just in student managers, team captains, The 1909 basketball team's record time to be drafted for WW I. After basketball reserves who were also on was 33-7, while the football team the war, Vaughn returned to coach the football team, football coaches, was 7-0-1 with Vaughn making the Wabash College, with marked former players, and YMCA coaches, All-America selection. Notre success. trainers, or managers. By 1916, I.U. Dame's football team was so good had used 14 official and at least five that other colleges came to poach the Purdue & the Big Ten (aka the unofficial basketball coaches. players. Vaughn and a lineman Western Conference) As I.U. had no pipeline to Wabash teammate transferred to Princeton At the Purdue point of the triangle, College, it sought to improve its where Vaughn played both (CHS '07, Wabash situation by turning to the more basketball and football, making All- College '11) became the third "progressive" state of Wisconsin for America again in football in 1911 & consecutive basketball coach from its sporting needs. In 1910, it had 1912. Crawfordsville--following Ralph hired C.P. Hutchins, a Wisconsin Vaughn became Purdue's Jones and Pete Vaughn. Lambert M.D. to be its Athletic Director and basketball coach from 1912/13 to took over at Purdue after four football coach. It was Hutchins who 1915/16, but posted three losing winning seasons at Lebanon High. suggested the high school state seasons. However, as a three-time He took over a Boiler squad that had tournament concept to the I.U. All-American in football he may not had a winning season for the Boosters Club in 1910. By 1916, have been hired primarily as the previous three years. He started All- I.U. had lured coach Ewald Ortivin assistant to head football coach Andy State players Paul Church (Lebanon IHSBHS 2017 WINTER ISSUE Page 10 Stiehm (U. of Wisconsin '1909) to be Porretta Power Poll for college teams involved with gymnastics recreation its A.D. and football coach. At 6'3", active from 1895-96 through 1947- for underprivileged boys. Because 180 pounds, and that birth name, he 48. They published their final results so many of the unruly youth became known sociably as "Jumbo." in 2009. abhorred calisthenics, he taught them Steihm (1886-1923) won nine letters When Lambert and Lowman how to play competitive basketball. at the University of Wisconsin where arrived in the Big Ten, basketball Between 1905 and 1915, basketball he played on championship football championships in that conference was so rough that many schools and and basketball teams as well as were being dominated by two colleges dropped the sport. lettering in track and tennis. His outstanding coaches, Ralph Jones Meanwell emphasized finesse. He prior coaching years at the (Shortridge H.S., 1901) and Dr. later noted "I'd done some University of Nebraska between Walter Meanwell. Each coach won experimenting with slum kids back 1911-15 had been phenomenal. In or shared four conference titles from in Baltimore, but because they were football he went 35-2-3 over the four 1911 to 1917. Each coach has also kids nobody paid much attention to years and won or tied the Missouri been selected as the retrospective the stuff I'd devised, even though Valley Conference each year with a mythical national titlists three times. we'd been remarkably successful." total conference record of 14-0-1. In Meanwell is in the Naismith Hall of basketball, he went 55-14 and was Fame, while for some reason Hoosier 33-4 in conference play. Ralph Jones is not. As determined In 1916, Jumbo recruited fellow by the Premo-Porretta Power Poll, Missouri Valley veteran coach Guy Jones won the mythical title while at S. Lowman from Kansas State to Wabash in 1906 and 1908, and at the coach I.U. basketball for the 1916-17 University of Illinois in 1915. season. Lowman was a 1905 Meanwell won the mythical title at graduate of the Springfield, Mass. Wisconsin in 1912, 1914, and 1916. YMCA where basketball was Incidentally, the Premo-Porretta invented in 1891. He played football Power Poll rankings listed Purdue at and basketball, while lettering in #2 in 1912, Wisconsin as #3 in 1913, baseball. This was his first big break and Illinois as #4 in both 1916 and and he would remain in the Big Ten 1917. for the rest of his career. At I.U., Lowman posted a record for wins at 1917 Premo-Porretta Power Poll 13 while losing 6 (see table 2). Rank Team Figure 2 Lowman was 3-5 in Big Ten play. #1 Washington St. (25-1) Meanwell got the attention of the His 13 wins at I.U. was broken only #2 Wabash Coll. (19-2) University of Wisconsin, where he three times before 1939. In 1921 (15 #3 (17-2) was hired for the 1911-12 season as wins), 1928 (15 wins), and 1936 (18 #4 Illinois (13-3) the director of physical education wins). #5 Navy (11-0) and the fencing coach. He Patrick Premo, a professor of #6 Wisconsin (15-3) convinced the university that he accounting at St. Bonaventure in #16 Purdue (11-3) could coach basketball, too. At that Allegheny, N.Y., began to analyze time, the offense routinely made long basketball season records from 1892- Dr. Walter Meanwell (1884-1953) passes downcourt or cross-court, 93 through 1948-49, the year that the was Born in Leeds, England, but dribbled the ball waist high, and used Associated Press began its national grew up in Rochester, NY (see Fig. only the center and forwards for rankings. By consulting with various 2). At the local Rochester Athletic scoring. Dr. Meanwell taught short basketball authorities around the Club, he won boxing and wrestling passes and a motion offense that nation (including present Boxscore awards while also playing the team involved all five men as potential Editor C. Johnson), he published his sports--without distinction--of scorers. They utilized weaving and preliminary data in 1995. Premo baseball and basketball. After crisscrossing, pivot maneuvers, and then linked up with Phil Porretta, a graduation from the University of screening for the shooter. This style computer programmer who was also Maryland Medical School in 1909, of play later became famous as the studying these early teams. Their Meanwell found work in the slums "Wisconsin System." Meanwell collaboration resulted in the Premo- of nearby Baltimore. He became took the conference by storm during IHSBHS 2017 WINTER ISSUE Page 11 his first three years. Wisconsin was after returning as a starter in game briefly as the team had to go 44-1 over the three years and #17, he was frequently rested and overtime to beat Martinsville and finished 35-1 in the conference. replaced by sophomore Clyde then was unable to score a single FG Grater. Little would die at age 47, against county rival Advance, losing Lebanon and the 1917 Season presumably of heart disease. that game 28-6. Then on Jan. 5, the When Ward Lambert left to Gerald Gardner, the 5-8 1/2 All- squad had to travel to play its biggest replace Pete Vaughn at Purdue, State forward, was academically rival, Thorntown. The home team's Lebanon was able to secure Alva R. ineligible until the second semester. coach, Chet Hill, started three boys Staggs as coach. Staggs (1888-1942) He would then come off the bench. who had played with the 1915 state was an all-sports star at tiny Walton Fred Adam, the 1915-16 sixth man, champions: Clark Larsh, Andy H.S., in Cass County, Indiana, about was injured and would not return Riggins, and Ted Stevenson. ten miles south of Logansport. He until the 4th game. Senior George Thorntown finished 11-6 for the graduated there in 1909 at age 21. White filled in until Sophomore season after playing home and away He may have taught and coached at Adam had recovered. Adam games with all the Triangle powers: equally small Sharpsville in nearby returned to start at forward, Lebanon, Lafayette, Wingate, and Tipton County in 1910 and 1911. alongside DeVol. Senior Charles Crawfordsville, as well as Afterward, Staggs graduated from Frank challenged returnee Robert Martinsville. Lebanon lost this re- Wabash College in 1914 with a Ball for the center post. match game with Thorntown, but by degree in English. He played this time Staggs had settled on a football and basketball under coach Lebanon, 1916-17 starting lineup of DeVol, Adam, Jesse Harper and excelled in track & Regular Season Games Ball, White, and Grater. The team Nov. 10, Veedersburg 28-12 field. Then he coached Monticello Nov. 17, @Advance 25-21 would then go unbeaten through the (in White County) in 1915 and 1916. Nov. 24, @Rockville 32-21 remainder of the season, culminating The 1915-16 Lebanon team had Nov. 29, @Washington 35-14 in a state championship (see Fig. 3, averaged 24.5 points per game and Dec. 01, New Richmond 23-13 team photo). 20 points were returning for the Dec. 08, Thorntown 28-15 As an interesting note, Lebanon Dec. 15, @Lafayette 21-13 1916-17 season. Seven of the top Dec. 22, @New Richmond 23-13 had played 9 of its first 13 games on eight scorers were back, including Dec. 27, @Martinsv. 44-42 (ot) the road and averaged only 27 points four of the starters--Don White (g), Dec. (?), Advance 06-28 (L) per game. But of the final seven Harry DeVol (f), Gerald Gardner (f), Jan 05, @Thorntown 20-30 (L) scheduled games, six were at home and defensive back guard Frank Jan.12, @Frankfort 45-15 and its per game average shot up by Jan. (?), @C'fordsville 22-5 Little. White, Gardner, and Little Jan. (?), Washington 50-23 15 points, to 42.3. That average was had been All-State selections at the Jan. 26, Lafayette 33-12 maintained throughout its eight state 1916 state tourney. Little was a Feb. 02, Martinsville 41-17 tournament games. For the entire unanimous first team selection by the Feb. 09, @Rochester 39-30 28-game championship season, the Indianapolis News, Star, Times, Feb. 16, C'fordsville 33-12 team averaged 35.5 points per game, Feb. 23, Frankfort 64-9 Indiana Daily Student, and by the Mar. 02, Bedford 39-6 compared to 24.5 during the previous game officials. Gardner and White Sectional games season, 1915-16 (see Table 3, made the Star's second team Cutler 81-12 Lebanon scoring). selection. Delphi 56-7 When Staggs began pre-season Thorntown 23-19 Table 1. 1917 BIG TEN: 9 teams Advance 37-18 W-L W-L practice he found that injury, illness, State finals ILL 10-2 13-3 and ineligibility had decimated the MN 10-2 12-2 Trafalgar 34-14 PU 07-2 11-3 squad. Instead of four returning Kendallville 43-8 WI 09-3 15-3 starters he had only two: high- Martinsville 36-12 IND 03-5 13-6 Gary Emerson 34-26 CHI 04-8 09-12 scoring floor guard White (Jr.) and OSU 03-9 15-11 forward DeVol (Sr.) who played as a NW 02-10 03-10 1A 01-8 07-9 point guard. Big All-State back At the beginning of the season, while Staggs was shuffling his guard Frank Little, at the time a man Table 2. I.U. & P.U. 1917 Schedules. among boys at 168 lbs., was out until lineup, Lebanon won its first nine INDIANA: 13-6 PURDUE: 11-3 games. Over the Christmas holiday D8: Ind. Dental College 40-10 ------the 16th game of the season, quite D15: Earlham 44-23 Rose Poly 44-9 possibly with rheumatic fever. Even school break, trouble developed D18: YMCA Vincennes 28-18 Franklin 37-10 J3: DePauw 24-14 Notre Dame 21-18 IHSBHS 2017 WINTER ISSUE Page 12 J5: Rose Poly 35-9 Wabash 09-17-L Basketball; Bonus Books, Chicago; PREZ SEZ J12: @ 21-12 Illinois 24-28-L J13: @ Iowa State Norm. 20-13 Chicago 14-12 1989. A Commentary by Roger Robison, J19: Iowa 12-7 Iowa 19-17 6. DiPrimo, Notter. Hoosier IHSBHS President, J28: Purdue 15-22-L @Indiana 22-15 F2: Butler 18-9 @Franklin 28-18 Handbook. Midwest Sports, Wichita on FBI Probes and AAU Sponsors F6: @ Purdue 18-24-L Indiana 24-18 KS, 1995. In September we learned that the F8: @ DePauw 14-13 @Ohio St. 29-28 F9: Central Normal 61-9 Chicago 16-13 7. Hammel, B., Klingelhoffer, K.; FBI has charged 12 coaching staff F16: Wabash 17-20-L @Illinois 16-27-L Glory of Old I.U., Sports Publishing members at Louisville, Auburn, F24: @ Ohio St. 24-19 ------M2: Ohio St. 14-30-L ------Inc. 1999 South Carolina, Miami, Arizona, M6: @ Wisconsin 13-29-L Ohio St. 32-17 8. Douchant, Mike; The USC and Oklahoma State and six M7: @ Milwaukee Norm. 39-12 M15: Wisconsin 16-18-L Encyclopedia of College Basketball, non-coaches with mass corruption, Visible Ink Press, Detroit, 1995. wire fraud and bribery of college Table 3 Lebanon Scoring 9. ESPN editors; ESPN College basketball recruits. Four of the non- Players 1916 Players 1917 F- Gardner-So 2.6 Adam-So. 6.4 Basketball Encyclopedia; Ballantine, coaches are associated with Adidas F- DeVol-Jr 1.4 DeVol-Sr. 3.8 NY; 2009. basketball shoes. The NCAA was C- McCormick-Sr 4.1 Ball-Jr/Sr. 7.0 G- D. White-So 5.3 D. White-Jr. 11.0 10. Wilson, K.L., Brondfield, J.; The shocked…shocked by these G- Little-Jr 0 BG Grater-So. 0 Big Ten; Prentice-Hall; 1967 accusations! Both Adidas and Nike F- sub Adam-Fr 4.0 BG Little-Sr. 0 C- sub Ball-So 3.0 sub Frank-Sr. 3.6 11. Ratermann, D.;The Big Ten; sponsor AAU teams which attract F-sub G. White-Jr 1.6 sub Gardner-Jr. 2.1 Sagamore, Champlain,IL; 1996. players from local high schools for Subs 2.5 sub G. White-Sr. 1.6 Total 24.5 Total 35.5 12. IHS/BHS stats on A.R. Staggs by summer leagues and/or transfer to Joe Quigley. basketball factories to play their high school ball. The top five USA high school basketball programs are essentially factories. They are Monteverde, FL; Oak Hill Academy, VA; Mater Dei, CA; St. Anthony, NJ; and Findley, NV. The tuition usually runs from $47,600 to $52,698. Ever wonder who is paying for this??? It appears the shoe companies and various agents bankroll the high school players under the table and then direct them to certain college programs and certain NBA teams. The families of high profile high school players are allegedly being paid $100,000 to $150,000 to see that their kid follows a certain path to the NBA. Figure 3 No one seems to know what REFERENCES 13. Sheets, H., Paddack, K.; Tiger academic requirements are required 1. Whalen, Bob; Crawfordsville Basketball, 2013. to play college basketball as a High School Basketball Record 14. Robison, RF, Boxscore, Winter freshman. Are there any??? Book; self-published; 1996. 2016 Colleges might return to making 2. Whalen, Bob; Montgomery 15. Sheets, H.; Tiger Basketball, freshmen ineligible so as to quit County & Wabash College 1991. acting as farm teams for the NBA. Is Basketball. 16. Leighty, S.C.; “All for Lebanon”. it time to recognize the AAU teams 3. 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