Looking for Insight on Basketball Ticket from 1928

[MK]

Carlton,
Thanks for the kind words. As to your questions, I have no idea if people are more interested in basketball memorabilia. My interest in basketball is limited to Indiana High School, and generally between 1911 (The first year for the state tournament) and 1997. Programs from those early years are extremely difficult to find. Beginning in the 1950s, they show up from time to time, but some like 1954 command a high price. That was the year of the famous Milan win, which was the basis for the movie Hoosiers. I was lucky enough to obtain a program and ticket stub from that game and have posted a picture here.

[ramram]

I saw this thread which got me to pull out my Indianapolis Kautsky's scorebooks as I recall there were some High School games scored in it. Looks like one is from the 1937 State Championship games at Butler Fieldhouse. I thought is was the finals but, after looking it up online, I guess it was just the semi-final game (Fort Wayne Central v. Huntingburg).

These scorebooks cover 1935-1940. They were the NBL Indianapolis Kautsky's team scorebooks. John Wooden was on the team and his brother Maurice "Cat" Wooden played in a few games for them as well. They played a lot of their games in the Butler Fieldhouse, particularly when they played non-league games against the likes of the Celtics and Harlem Rens.

Rob M.


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[MK]

Hey Rob, great scorebook. The game between Huntington and FW Central was the second afternoon game on March 27, 1937. Anderson beat Rochester in the first game. That night Anderson beat Huntington for the State Championship. If you notice, Huntington played their staters the entire game. May have "run out of gas" in the night game. The attendance was 14,983 which was capacity at the field house. 781 schools participated in the tournament as nearly every small town had it's own high school.

[David W]

Off topic, but related to Indiana HS basketball. 25-30 years ago, my wife (then girlfriend) told me about an old guy in the nursing home she worked in. His name was Mr. Moore. He was in his 90's at that time, and in great health, but his wife was there and he moved in with her to take care of her.

Anyway, he was at the first championship game in 1911. He told me how he got there, and got in, I guess it was packed. I've forgotten many of the details. He was also the coach at Peru HS and before that Frankfort, where he gave a legendary coach his first coaching job as his assistant. The assistant was Everett Case and he won 4 championships at Frankfort before a legendary career in the ACC at NC State.

He said he coached against Wooden when Wooden played for Martinsville, and Wooden was a hot head with a temper, but a great player.