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Autore |
Roos Mike |
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Titolo |
One small town, one crazy coach : the Ireland Spuds and the 1963 Indiana high school basketball season / / Mike Roos |
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Bloomington, : Quarry Books, an imprint of Indiana University Press, 2013 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (324 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Basketball - Indiana - History |
School sports - Indiana - History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Gloomsday; 2 No Irish in Ireland; 3 Neither a Drunkard Nor a Bank Robber; 4 Baptisms; 5 Turkey Run and the White Horse Tavern; 6 A Wop and a Wimp and a Moon; 7 Too Much Is Not Enough; 8 Life under the Knife; 9 Ice Man; 10 Your Blood, Your Sweat, Your Tears; 11 Drill, Baby, Drill!; 12 Soap and Towel and Wings of Fire; 13 Highway 61 Revisited; 14 The Buy In; 15 Devil in Blue Jeans; 16 Coal for Christmas; 17 I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing; 18 Of Jeeps and Giants; 19 The Dude; 20 Preliminaries; 21 Walk Like a Man; 22 The Prophet's Vision |
23 Divine Insanity24 Keep Your Pants On; 25 The Axe Just Fell; 26 Fame; 27 Small Potatoes; 28 Invasion of the Little Green Men; Epilogue |
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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 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. Relyin |
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