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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]
(The Milan team and the tournament win also served as the inspiration for the fictional Hickory High School team in the movie, Hoosiers (1986). The final scenes of the movie's championship game were also filmed at the fieldhouse.) [9] [13] [24] In 1950, Butler Fieldhouse was the site of the first televised broadcast of a state championship game ...
The movie's final game was filmed in the same gymnasium that hosted the 1954 Indiana state championship game, Butler University's Hinkle Fieldhouse (called Butler Fieldhouse in 1954) in Indianapolis. [6] Unlike the film's plot, the 1954 Milan Indians came into the season as heavy favorites and finished the '53–'54 regular season at 19–2.
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 .
Release date Title Notes January 12, 1951: The Mating Season: January 17, 1951: At War with the Army: distribution only; produced by Fred F. Finklehoffe Productions, Screen Associates Inc. & York Pictures Corporation [N 1]
February 1954: Charge of the Lancers: The Wild One: co-production with Stanley Kramer Productions February 24, 1954: Bait: Co-production with Hugo Haas Productions March 1954: It Should Happen to You: March 1, 1954: The Battle of Rogue River: March 10, 1954: Drive a Crooked Road: April 2, 1954: Jesse James vs. the Daltons: 3D film: April 7 ...
A spaceship designed like a human male comes to earth and is crewed by tiny aliens that look exactly like humans. [28] Mothra: 1961: In this fantastic Japanese tokusatsu film, twin women a foot tall, dubbed the Shobijin, are kidnapped from their island and their goddess, Mothra, goes to rescue them. Subsequent films with the character Mothra ...