Category: Featured
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Tragedy only legacy of budding Southern Indiana basketball star
<p>Courtesy</p> <p>The Alfordsville High School basketball team. Butch Canary is second seated player from the left. Coach Kenneth Hudson is standing at left. William Canary, principal and father of Butch, is at the far right. Alfordsville, Indiana, is a town of 112 people today, tucked in the southern swath of the state east of Interstate 69, west…
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Switz City Gym and Ralph Legeman
Ralph Legeman designed or licensed bowls in the following cities. How many have you been in. Personal Note: For some reason I never knew about Ralph Legeman. Briefly, he was born in Evansville and graduated from Evansville Central High. He started his architect career in 1922. He died in 1974. His idea of building down…
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Life of the Party: 1930 Hatchets
Gregg Doyel story of 1930 Washington Hatchets featuring Coach Burl Friddle and Dave DeJernett
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In Indiana it’s more than a game….
Today I went to a funeral of a friend. I met Jim Wolford in this park, onthis court, almost 51 years ago. He was married, a recent graduate of Purdue, working at the Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center, and was 25 years old. I was fourteen and it was 1973. The eleven year age difference…
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1989 Banner year for Southern Indiana teams. Girls & Boys Scoring leaders
Cheaney, Rady, Weisman, Graham, Painter, Mount, Bailey, Ruckman, Lawson, Vogt, Bower, Babcock, Redenbaugh, Westmoreland, Jackson, Jacoby, Lewis, Aldridge
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Who is or was your Danny Toothman?
Danny Toothman celebrated for his 53 years of working, giving, and volunteering at Perry Central. Forty-five years involved with the basketball program
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Dana Benbow: Butch Canary story follow up with Kenny and Dave Hudson
Could Butch Canary have been Junior Gee or a Larry Bird? No one died in Hoosiers.
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John Wooden’s 10th Grade Photo and Team: Martinsville 1926
John Wooden already making his mark on Indiana High School basketball in 1926
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Warsaw Beats Bloomfield For First Girls’ Title in 1976
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Cody Zeller Indiana All-Star Coverage : Indy Star 2011