It's pretty rare to find a box score from early Indiana high school basketball that specifically speaks to FG%. Even rebounds are rarely mentioned by number, but here's one from two highly ranked teams from the 1922-23 season.
Lebanon would win this game vs. Lafayette Jeff, 37-35. The score was fairly typical for the period. However, the real story is in the table below. Each team was actually praised in the game story for hot shooting...
Lebanon was 14/78 or .180 FG%
Jefferson was 14/89 or .157 FG%
Yikes. And remember these teams were ranked as some of the the best in the state at the time. It's seldom we get a look into what these games were actually like. An game story that points out "snappy passing" is hard to interpret. It truly must have been bombs away back then. One can only image if it was two township or county schools with losing records heaving shoe shots.
Lebanon would win this game vs. Lafayette Jeff, 37-35. The score was fairly typical for the period. However, the real story is in the table below. Each team was actually praised in the game story for hot shooting...
Lebanon was 14/78 or .180 FG%
Jefferson was 14/89 or .157 FG%
Yikes. And remember these teams were ranked as some of the the best in the state at the time. It's seldom we get a look into what these games were actually like. An game story that points out "snappy passing" is hard to interpret. It truly must have been bombs away back then. One can only image if it was two township or county schools with losing records heaving shoe shots.
