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Mar 23, 2024 · MILAN, Ind. (WISH) — Seventy years after their historic state championship run, the 1954 Milan Indians were honored on Saturday. For several decades, all Indiana high school basketball...
Mar 24, 2023 · Constructed in 1924 and located just outside of Milan’s downtown district, the “most famous water tower in Indiana” has proclaimed Milan’s high school boys basketball state...
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“The town wanted to fire him,” Plump says. He’s talking about Marvin Wood, the coach hired in 1953 at age 24, an outsider from Butler with newfangled ideas that didn’t mesh with old-school Milan fans. He did crazy things like closing practice – “un-heardof back then,” says Plump – and slowing the tempo and not taking his meals at Arkenberg’s restau...
Let’s take this chronologically. You think 1954 started in 1954? No chance. It started seven years earlier, in 1947, on the playgrounds of the old Milan schoolhouse. They had a basketball goal out there, a rickety thing, but it worked. “We had seven seniors on that 1954 team, right?” Rollin Cutter, a 6-2 sophomore that year, is asking rhetorically....
She wasn’t from Milan. That’s what everyone says when they talk about Roselyn McKittrick, the farm girl from Iowa. “She wasn’t even here in 1954!” Plump says. Smack. Ros – we’re calling her Ros – moved here in 1956 with her husband, John, and their three kids. She found a town still floating on the memories of 1954, and she hopped on the ride. It s...
Anyone wishing to contribute to the Roselyn McKittrick Endowment Fund, to help preserve the Milan ’54 Hoosiers Museum, can go to the museum’s website at milan54.org/donations-2or call Tom Kohlmeier at (317) 819-4715.
Mar 20, 2024 · Tiny Milan High School defeated powerhouse Muncie Central 32-30 to win the state championship on Bobby Plump's jump shot in the closing seconds.
Aug 11, 2023 · 1954 State Champion Milan High School basketball team poses on the court after winning the state tournament. Several players from the "Milan Miracle" team will be at the Indiana State...
Feb 7, 2024 · February 7, 2024. MILAN – A 70th-anniversary celebration of Milan High School’s legendary 1954 Indiana Basketball State Championship will be held on Saturday, March 23, in Milan....
Mar 26, 2024 · On March 20, 1954, Milan High School—enrollment 161—defeated Muncie Central in the Indiana High School Boys State Championship, making the Indians the smallest school to ever win the single class tournament in Indiana, according to a press release. The team and town are the inspiration for the movie “Hoosiers,” released in 1986.
