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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 Milan Miracle.
On a cold March night at Butler Fieldhouse in 1954, the Indians of tiny Milan High School (enrollment 162) defeated the mighty Muncie Central Bearcats (enrollment 1,662), to win the Indiana Boys ...
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. [2] [3]
Milan will host 70th anniversary celebration in March to honor 1954 state champion team.
Milan: Marvin Wood 28-2 Muncie Central 32-30 1954-55 Indianapolis Attucks Ray Crowe: 30-1 Gary Roosevelt 97-74 1955-56 Indianapolis Attucks Ray Crowe: 31-0 Lafayette Jefferson 79-57 1956-57 South Bend Central Elmer McCall 30-0 Indianapolis Attucks 67-55 1957-58 Fort Wayne South Side Don Reichert 28-2 Crawfordsville 63-34 1958-59 Indianapolis ...
Photo from Small Town Indiana photo survey. Milan (/ ˈ m aɪ l ɪ n / MY-lin) [4] is a town in Franklin and Washington townships, Ripley County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. [2] The population was 1,899 at the 2010 census.
The final scene of the climactic championship game in Hoosiers (1986) was filmed at Hinkle Fieldhouse, the site of the 1954 championship game between Milan High School and Muncie Central. (The Milan team and the final game were the inspiration for the fictional basketball team in the movie.) [ 10 ] [ 16 ] [ 9 ] The film also featured the voices ...