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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 ...
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.
Gates was highly respected as a sports announcer well outside northern Indiana. When tiny Milan High School won the state basketball championship at Butler University's Hinkle Fieldhouse in 1954, Hilliard Gates was at the microphone - and his delivery was so powerful and distinctive that he was also used as the announcer in the 1986 movie Hoosiers, a fictionalized story based on the Milan team ...
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.
While dropping the Indian name, [383] adoption of the Warriors is seen by many as a way of retaining Native American imagery. [384] Kalama Middle/High School: Kalama: Washington: Chinook N/A 2021 The prior logo featuring "Charlie Chinook", a cartoon Native American character has been replaced by a salmon. [385] Keshequa High School Nunda: New ...