One Small Town, One Crazy Coach : The Ireland Spuds and the 1963 Indiana High School Basketball Season /
In the summer of 1962, the peripatetic and irrepressible Pete Gill was hired on a whim to coach basketball at tiny Ireland High School. There he would accomplish, against enormous odds, one of the great small-town feats in Indiana basketball history. With no starters taller than 5'10", few...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Quarry Books. an imprint of Indiana University Press,
[2013]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | In the summer of 1962, the peripatetic and irrepressible Pete Gill was hired on a whim to coach basketball at tiny Ireland High School. There he would accomplish, against enormous odds, one of the great small-town feats in Indiana basketball history. With no starters taller than 5'10", few wins were predicted for the Spuds. Yet, after inflicting brutal preseason conditioning, employing a variety of unconventional motivational tactics, and overcoming fierce opposition, Gill molded the Spuds into a winning team that brought home the town's first and only sectional and regional titles. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (280 pages): illustrations |
ISBN: | 9780253010353 |