Instant Relatives - Hoosier Hysteria Traditional Geocache

Asbury Cemetery,  a truly interesting cemetery filled with history and fascinating facts concerning an array of personalities!  Read on, to learn a bit about HOOSIER HYSTERIA!  Movies! Hall of Fame !  Be respectful please. No night caching.

CACHE PLANTED IN HONOR OF

MARVIN C WOOD

January 12, 1928 – October 28 1999

Basketball Coach. Member, Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame. Best known for coaching tiny Milan (IN) High School to the 1954 State Championship.

This story inspired the movie "Hoosiers."  He also coached at New Castle (IN) High School, Indianapolis North Central High School, and Mishawaka (IN) High School, as well as Bethel and St. Mary's colleges.

By DOUGLAS MARTIN - Published: October 15, 1999

Marvin Wood, who coached a tiny high school's basketball team to the Indiana state championship, portrayed in the 1986 movie ''Hoosiers,'' died on Wednesday in South Bend., Ind. He was 71.

Woods's wife, Mary Lou, said the cause was lymphoma.

The team's feat was legendary in the basketball-crazed state well before it was celebrated in the movie.

At the storied 1954 title game, all but a handful of the 1,150 citizens of Milan, Ind., were on hand to see their Indians take on Muncie Central High School, whose team had won four state championships. Tickets were being scalped for $50 and it was estimated that 90 percent of Indiana's residents were watching or listening to broadcasts of the contest.

The final 18 seconds of the game were so exquisitely tense that the movie reproduced them almost exactly. The denouement came with just five seconds left when Bobby Plump faked left and fired a shot cleanly through the net, winning the game, 32-30. The Indianapolis Star recently called the game the top sports story in Indiana history.

''It proved that dreams can come true,'' said Plump, who is now 63 and owns a restaurant in Indianapolis called Plump's Last Shot.…”

Full article may be found at the following website:

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/15/sports/marvin-wood-is-dead-at-71-coach-of-the-hoosiers-team.html

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