One Small Town, One Crazy Coach : The Ireland Spuds and the 1963 Indiana High School Basketball Season /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roos, Mike, 1952-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Quarry Books. an imprint of Indiana University Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sports scolaires > Indiana > Histoire.
School sports.
Basketball.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Basketball.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Reference.
SPORTS & RECREATION > History.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Business Aspects.
GAMES > Gambling > Sports.
Basketball > Indiana > History.
School sports > Indiana > History.
Indiana.
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (280 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780253010353

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