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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.
In 1950, Butler Fieldhouse was the site of the first televised broadcast of a state championship game. [22] In the 1955 and 1956 state championship games at Butler Fieldhouse, Oscar Robertson and his teammates at Indianapolis's Crispus Attucks High School won back-to-back state championships, a first time for an all-black high school team. [24]
1. Hoosiers. Hollywood feel-good movie-making at its finest, this 1986 classic features Gene Hackman as Norman Dale, who brings a checkered past to his role as head coach at Hickory High. Based on ...
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.
The movie, which celebrates the 35th anniversary of its release this month, embodies values that are vital in sports and in the American way of life. Why 'Hoosiers' remains the best sports movie ...
In 1954, Butler Fieldhouse hosted the historic final when Milan High School (enrollment 161) defeated Muncie Central High School (enrollment over 1,600) to win the state title. The state final depicted in the 1986 movie Hoosiers , loosely based on the Milan Miracle story, was shot in Hinkle Fieldhouse.
Bobby Plump and his Milan High School teammates were part of the inspiration behind the 1986 film Hoosiers, starring Gene Hackman as coach of the fictitious Hickory Huskers. Hickory's star player, Jimmy Chitwood, takes his last-second shot in the championship game from the same spot Plump did in the 1954 state final.
The Fieldhouse Bloomington, Indiana: 12/16/1950 * at Kansas State: W 58–52 4–0: Ahearn Field House Manhattan, Kansas: 12/22/1950 * No. 4 : at Butler Hoosier Classic: W 61–46 5–0: Butler Fieldhouse Indianapolis: 12/23/1950 * No. 4 : vs. Notre Dame Hoosier Classic: W 64–56 6–0: Butler Fieldhouse Indianapolis: 12/27/1950 * No. 5 : at ...