[You’ve heard this fairy tale. The tiny school from the pencil-dot town on an Indiana map, clawing its way through the high school basketball tournament.
No, not Milan. The OTHER tiny school from the same season.
What a movie the Montezuma Aztecs would have made back in 1954. Senior class of 14, seven boys and seven girls. No place to play home games. The Gymless Wonders, people called them. They shared their practice area—60 feet by 27 feet—in the school basement with the band and a home economics class, and couldn’t put much air under their shots because of the low ceiling. The coach’s wife had to wash the uniforms, hanging them on her clothesline to dry.]
http://www.ibj.com/articles/57189-lopresti-the-boys-from-tiny-montezuma-almost-took-down-mighty-milan
No, not Milan. The OTHER tiny school from the same season.
What a movie the Montezuma Aztecs would have made back in 1954. Senior class of 14, seven boys and seven girls. No place to play home games. The Gymless Wonders, people called them. They shared their practice area—60 feet by 27 feet—in the school basement with the band and a home economics class, and couldn’t put much air under their shots because of the low ceiling. The coach’s wife had to wash the uniforms, hanging them on her clothesline to dry.]
http://www.ibj.com/articles/57189-lopresti-the-boys-from-tiny-montezuma-almost-took-down-mighty-milan
