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The 1954 Milan High School Indians won the Indiana High School Boys Basketball Tournament championship in 1954. [ 1] With an enrollment of only 161, Milan was the smallest school ever to win a single-class state basketball title in Indiana, beating the team from the much larger Muncie Central High School in a classic competition known as the ...
Bobby Gene Plump (born September 9, 1936) is a member of the Milan High School basketball team, who won the Indiana High School Athletic Association (IHSAA) state tournament in 1954. Plump was selected Indiana's coveted "Mr. Basketball" in 1954, the award bestowed upon Indiana's most outstanding senior basketball player as voted on by the press ...
Milan High School is most famous for its 1954 basketball team, which won the Indiana state championship against Muncie Central High School, a school ten times its size. The 1986 movie Hoosiers is based on the story of this team, which had lost in the semifinals the preceding year.
Based on the true story of Milan High School, which won the 1954 Indiana state championship, Hoosiers puts all the cliches to use, including overbearing parents and introverted teen Jimmy Chitwood ...
Gene White. Gene White was one of the original members of the 1954 Milan, Indiana championship basketball team that inspired the film Hoosiers . At 5'11" White played center for the Milan Indians. White's family owned a local feed store, and his mother sold some of the family's chickens to fund a trip to Indianapolis for the state championship.
White was all-sectional, all-regional, all-semistate as a junior and senior and was named all-state as a senior when the 1954 Milan team made its underdog run to the state championship. White went ...
Hoosier hysteria is the state of excitement surrounding basketball in Indiana or, more specifically, the Indiana high school basketball tournament. [1] [2] The most famous example occurred in 1954, when Milan (enrollment 161) defeated Muncie Central (enrollment over 1,600) to win the state title. Indiana's passion for basketball was observed ...
Mar. 21—MILAN — Dedication of the new Indiana State Historical Marker commemorating the "Milan Miracle" is set for Saturday, March 26, across the street from the Milan 54 Hoosiers Museum in ...