Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 302 pages :) : illustrations |
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text file |
Series |
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Contents |
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. |
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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. |
Summary |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
School sports -- Indiana -- History.
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School sports. |
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Indiana. |
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History. |
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Basketball -- Indiana -- History.
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Basketball. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Added Author |
Project Muse.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Roos, Mike. One Small Town, One Crazy Coach : The Ireland Spuds and the 1963 Indiana High School Basketball Season. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2013 9780253010285 |
ISBN |
9780253010353 electronic book |
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0253010357 electronic book |
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9780253010285 paperback alkaline paper |
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0253010284 paperback alkaline paper |
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