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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.
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 ...
Pink showed off her toned butt and legs in new photos showing her in a leotard. The singer, 44, has worked with personal trainer Jeanette Jenkins for 12 years.
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Anytime I watch the movie Hoosiers or read about the Milan Indians or Crispus Attucks the hair stands up on the back of my neck. Unfortunalely I am a Hoosier who is now stuck in Buckeye land. GO BUCKS! jamesmcleaster@aol.com 4/5/2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.24.85.111 21:43, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
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 .