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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington :
Quarry Books. an imprint of Indiana University Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt16gzb7b |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 302 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9780253010353 0253010357 9780253010285 0253010284 |