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Country School Beats BiCousins For TitleIndiana Toasts New ChampsBy KURT FREUDENTHALINDIANAPOLIS. Ind., March25—UP—A pint-size coach who piloted a small country school to the high school basketballchampionship is the latest sen-sation in hardwood-mad Indiana.His story is so thrilling in astate where prep basketball isdeadly serious business, littleMarvin Wood most likely is the most popular person in Hoosier-land. 'He became a hero-perhaps even Indiana’s young man of the year”—when he coached little Milan in southeastern Indiana, a school with 162 students in a town of 1,150, to the most precious athletic crown thisstate annually bestows.Hie Indiana tourney is played off in eliminations lasting four weeks, with all teams playing one class. There are no byes for larger schools, and Milan this year outclassed a field of751 teams.It was the first time in 39years that-a sma 11-town teamwon over the city teams, only the odds against a small club nowadays are jnuch higher thanthey were back in 1915.Last year, the 26-year-oldformer Butler University cager, in his third year of coaching,installed a zone defense so we wouldn’t get beat too badly.” To that he added a delayed offenseto slow down the opposition.The system paid off so well that Milan crashed through to the final four of the state tourney before losing to the eventual champion.Last year we went to Indianapolis and didn't bring anything back,” Wood recalled. The latter was the understate-See INDIANA TOASTS Page •
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Lubbock Morning Avalanche
Lubbock, Texas, US
Thu, Mar 25, 1954
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