Star City High School - Twinkler Yearbook (Star City, IN)

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'fflzgz 55221 4 ' l E3 Last gear approximately 8,000,000 people played basketball in America. There were more oaid admissions to basketball J. genes than to any other sport. In our state we have about 900 high schools-- a small percentage have football teams, but every- one has a basketball team. 9855 of all high schools have varsity basket- ball teams. Approximately 48? of all high scheel students participate in interclass and varsity competition. Basketball is only fifty years old. During the earliest games there was no center jump--the referee threw the ball fron out of bound to the center of the floor. Geal: at one time counted three paints. In the early daft if a player committed one or nero fouls during four consecutive games, he was barred for the season. The greatest known number ef field goals made by one individunl in :nj one game was E5,scered by E. Lowery, ex-Purdue star. Jack Cray scored over l,000 points during his playing career, with Texas University. The world's talleettrsketball team was coach- ed by Al Baggett, one Feat Texas State College. Their average height per man wie six feet six and one-half inches. Eunnj Leavitt, uf Chicago, is the Wwrld's F Champion Free fhriwer havin: made Q99 caneecutive b' 5 e, free throw: in ictn.l tournament coxpetition.

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Basketball is the only major sport that orig- inated in America. It was devised in l89l by Dr. Naismith, a director of physical education of Springfield College, Springfield, Mass. During its first year basketball spread to all parts of our country. In its second year the French and Chinese started playing it. Today it is played in all countries. Proof of basketballYs universal acceptance lies in the fact that during the l956 Berlin Oly- mpies, it was played for the first time. Twenty nations ,were represented. The final game was be- tween the United Statesand Canada, the former win- ning l9-8. The first games were played with any number of players, from three to fiftyg however, 9 play- ers were preferred. Whenever forty or morewsre on a team two balls were used instead of one. Basketball kept growing in leaps and bounds, being played by men, women, boys and girls. It was played in the Y, M. C, AYs recreation centers and schools, especially the smaller schools, as very little equipment and expense was required. Great intorst in basketball has always been shown in our state, especially in the small con- solidated high schools. It is only natural that Indiana has become the center of high school basketball. During the last few years we have had almost 20,000 spectators watching our championship game in our final state tourney, This year in our sch- eduled game it was estimated?that there were 8,000 to witness the battle.

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