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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 ...
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1954 Milan High School Basketball Team; Jordan is in the top row, fourth from right. Jordan was born in Milan, Indiana.As a high school student, under the name Bill Jordan, Jordan was a member of the famous 1954 Milan High School basketball team that won the 1954 Indiana High School Athletic Association (IHSAA) State Tournament.
Ira Milan, a spirited 100-year-old World War II veteran who served as a U.S. Navy Seabee in the Philippines, and Margery Milan, turning 101 in July, are the epitome of love as they reign as ...