Milan, Indiana wins the 1954 State Championship
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2010
- On a cold March night in Butler Fieldhouse, the Indians of tiny Milan High School (enrollment 162) defeated the mighty Muncie Central Bearcats (enrollment 1,662), to win the state championship and secure their place in Hoosier Folklore.
The movie "Hoosiers" featuring Gene Hackman is based on the small town of Milan, IN winning the 1954 State Championship 
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Yay!!! Bobby just spoke at the Air Force Association Dinner in Bloomington, Indiana. He was a wonderful speaker, and so able to recall details! Fun!
I currently go to milan and have been going there my whole life! I'm proud to be a MILAN INDIAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m in 7th grade going into 8th and it’s still a good school
@skizzyyn so your a senior now? Great little school history!
I was at that game and I was 11 yrs old and my brothers were a junior and a freshman, we screamed and yelled but we still lost. Yes I later graduated from Muncie Central and will always be a BEARCAT even though I now live in Kokomo. I still remember everyone in the Butler Barn standing and cheering for the little school and going crazy when they did win.
Woooow
That is so awesome that you were actually there! What do you think about the movie?
No pressure on the ball or 5 second rule then
@@stephenkennedy8767 No time clock, no 3 point shot.
Wonderful basketball footage! Thank you for posting this. Great game.
"It's amazing that this footage of a 1950's high school game with audio, still exists. In contrast, I have yet to see footage of one of the greatest NBA Finals games ever played, the 1957 Game 7 double-overtime thriller between the Boston Celtics and the St. Louis Hawks. "
I can top that, there is no video of the first Super Bowl between Green Bay and KC in 1967. The fact that this footage exists of the Milan championship is amazing. tahk you for posting it.
oh, that's why they call it the key! never saw basketball this old before -- what a great treat.
Hands-down, the best sports movie ever made.
Hey Dave
I assume you're referring to the movie "Hoosiers", which was loosely based on this story. However, my vote for best sports movie goes to "Friday Night Lights".
“Rudy” was better
Tie between Rudy and Hoosiers.
Can't beat "Miracle", the USA team taking down the seemingly invincible Soviets in Lake Placid.
i first saw Hoosiers in 1987 on vcr !... The movie was originally called Best Shot back then .... tonight 34 years later im watching it again on iTunes for the 2nd time ..its amazing to see this footage from the real story in 1954
This was included the in 1986 VHS production of the Indiana High School Athletic Association called "INDIANA'S GAME" devoted to Indiana High School Basketball history of the 20th century.
Just watched Hoosiers for about the 10th time, and still balled at the end. It's a perfect movie.
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+19Indy88 jerk
I honestly think I have watched it more than 30×'s (@the least) and I still cry every time. :)
As much as the movie departs from much of the truth, the last shot in the movie and the real game pretty much mirror each other.
I was at Butler fieldhouse that night... in the 9th grade at Blaine in Muncie... we couldnt get tickets to get in so we listened to the game on cousin Bill's radio parked 6 blocks from the fieldhouse... when Bob Plump hit that final shot we could HEAR the fans from 6 blocks away!!! Plump wasn't the best player on that team.. Ray Craft was.. he plays a ref in the movie Hoosiers. Plump took the shot because Jim Barnes his opponent was only 5 10. It was a mere speed bump for the Muncie Central Bearcats... they went on to win 4 more state championships starting in 1963.. then 77, 78, and 88. to reply to a previous post about Oscar Robertson, he played for Crispus Attucks and was a sophomore in 1954...his coach at Attucks played the coach of South Bend Central in the movie.
Awesome Jim, thanks for sharing!
This is amazing! So it wasn't Jimmy Chipwood who took the final shot? How cool is this....
I'm pretty sure they used different names in the movie, notice the coaches last name was different than the movie as well, and this game is def diff than the movie, but it had to be for the dramatic ending.
What a WONDERFUL video!!
Eeesh it’s so strange watching a basketball game that doesn’t have a shot clock! I’m glad they added it down the road
I love all the standing around. wow
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I grew op in Austin Indiana. Just a few towns over from Milan. Had no idea they were so close to our community.
I ran into a picture of the Milan Indians in a Restaurant lobby in Wabash, I was with a friend and told him, "there is a picture of my Uncle and 2 of my cousins in the lobby. Uncle Mark Combs was a coach for the kids, Bill Jordan was on the team and David was just a kid but was the team "mascot". Great to see this here. I remember growing up looking at the State Champs written on the water tower.
He was quick nice pull up jumper
Hero Bob Plump and coach Marvin Wood = shooter Jimmy Chitwood and coach Norman Dale (Gene Hackman) in HOOSIERS film?
It's amazing that this footage of a 1950's high school game with audio, still exists. In contrast, I have yet to see footage of one of the greatest NBA Finals games ever played, the 1957 Game 7 double-overtime thriller between the Boston Celtics and the St. Louis Hawks. Bill Russell''s first championship. Does video/audio still exist of professional games during the period?
No 24-second clock in those days.
Hinkle field house is the West Point of Indiana HS basketball.
The announcer is Hiliard Gates. Ray Craft was my high school principal for a time in Shelbyville before he went to the IHSAA.
No. In 1954 Oscar Robertson was only a sophomore, playing for Crispus Attucks, the all-black (then) high school from Indianapolis & a very formidable foe. But Milan managed to beat them in round two of the semi-state. When Attucks came back the next year, they won the state championship, becoming the first all-black high school team in the USA to win a state championship, and then won it again in 1956-- both times with Robertson, who averaged 24 points/game in his senior year.
As much as the game has changed, the final play back then was still "Iso your MVP, and let him shoot the pull-up J." The more things change, the more they stay the same
I was a little disappointed with the ending....wanted to see the celebration
There was a whole lot of passing back in the day, they pass like the Harlem globe trotters when they do one of their routines.
I remember years ago, mid 1990's, watching some of this film with my dad on a local network(that picked it up nationally) . It was played because Indiana was doing away with the high school basketball tournament because, as they put it, there will never me a "Milan" again. I am very,very interested in knowing how the original players feel about that///
They didn't do away with the tournament, just the single-class tournament. It's been unpopular for years and despite that, the IHSAA turns a deaf ear on it. Now, the whole of Indiana is much different than 60 years ago so it doesn't matter anyway.
Illinois did the same thing after Chicago public schools dominated the tourney for a decade. Prior to that the state tourney was an EVENT; afterwards interest slowly died unless your team was involved. Same in Indiana.
One of life's imponderable questions is, "what if Plump had missed that last shot?" What an abundance of confidence he had in his own ability to believe so strongly that he would NOT miss. Milan is my hometown and for those of us who were alive back then (I was 7 years old) that game will always be the defining moment of our lives. About 30 years after the game my sister was in a beauty shop in Cincinnati (about 40 miles from Milan) and during a conversation with the other ladies she mentioned that she was from Milan. There was a lady sitting next to her who said that her son was one of the players from Muncie Central. My sister said that even though 30 years had passed, the woman cried as she told how her son's team (huge team from a huge school) was defeated by a tiny team from a tiny school of less than 200 studentsl. Members of Milan's team had to be extremely careful not to get injured enough that they couldn't play because the team was so small that there literally might not be anyone to replace that player. I wish that the movie Hoosiers had correctly identified the schools. It was not "Hickory" versus (was it Fort Wayne in the movie?) it was Milan versus Muncie Central. Why couldn't the movie had been accurate enough to use the correct names?
+Maryann Anderson I watched the movie tonight. And I went looking and found out some things. ... and your comment - so now I know the true story. Thank you.
Ahh, before the shot clock.
Hilliard Gates also plays the radio announcer in the movie.
Ray Craft was my high school principal before he went to the IHSAA.
Bobby Plump and the Milan HS Indiana defeated the Crispus Attucks in both the 1953 and 1954 Indianapolis Semi State
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I think that Oscar Robertson was a sophomore on that Crispus Attucks team, and they won the next two years with him and again in 1959 after he graduated.
C.A. was opened and run for years as a segregated Indianapolis City High School.
Bobby Plump definitely took a jump shot on that last shot. Ahead of his time?
hey i live their
this was great until that animated thing at the very end. what the hell was that? nearly ruined the whole thing.
NO KIDDING! No matter I've never seen any footage of it. Was it because the AFC wasn't considered seriously at all and it was considered just some exhibition match or something?
You do realize Muncie Central beat Mississinewa in the semi-state game in 1954 right?
Wow, terrible couple of turnovers there by Muncie down the stretch. Also, poor decision for Milan to attack the basket with 30 seconds left and a two-point lead.
What are you 36?
Indiana HS basketball rules. It’s not a game, it’s a religion.
at least the black guys lost GOOD
You're an idiot
lol. look at all the white ballers. i guess this is back when black people were just a rumor eh?
Apparently in your attempt to be color blind you failed to notice black players on the Muncie team. Fail.