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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.
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]
Gene White was one of the original members of the 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.
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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.
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The movie Hoosiers is a work of fiction. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.229.172.185 20:19, August 28, 2007 (UTC) Yes, it's a work of fiction, but given the number of fans of this movie that think it's an accurate retelling of the 1954 Milan Indians, a discussion of the differences might still be appropriate.
It was this 1954 Milan "Indians" basketball team on which the movie Hoosiers was loosely based. Jordan is a graduate of Indiana University. Jordan is a graduate of Indiana University. During his career as an actor, Jordan rented an upscale apartment in Hollywood , while owning a large home in Arrowhead, California .