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May 1, 2019
According to Bob Whitecotton, the New Ross gym was built in 1933, and was made possible because his mother wanted someplace for her boys, Bob and Pat to play. I remember reading someplace that the old barn-like gym was built by the men of Walnut Township. That hasn’t...
April 24, 2019
Last time we looked at Crawfordsville High School’s success on the basketball court in the decades of the 1950s. While the Athenians might have been the premiere team of that decade there were plenty of other great teams from the county during the same time frame.
Whi...
April 1, 2019
The decade before consolidation in Montgomery County could be deemed as the “Golden Era.”
Just about every year the county had a team which put together an outstanding season. In the 10 seasons from 1960-61 to the 1969-70 season one county team won 18 or more games du...
April 1, 2019
New Ross became a launching pad for great coaches in the era from the middle 50s to the late 60s. From 1953 to 1965, The Bluejays won four county tourneys, four sectionals, and two regionals, posting a record of 229-51 for a winning percentage of .817. John Ward, who...
March 20, 2019
History of New Ross Basketball: The Golden Years
More notable players from the 1950s-60s and a memory from Mary Lou Feltner (Wilson)
Other notable Blue Jays are Homer Williams and Harold Williams, Howie’s brothers, who played on the Bluejays teams of the early 1940s....
March 6, 2019
Donald “Hotshot” Haffner was a star center on two Crawfordsville Athenian sectional winners in the late 20s (1928 and 1929).
Don and his wife Crystal later moved to a small farm near New Ross and had three sons and four daughters. The author remembers driving down 50...
February 19, 2019
In his book “Big Foot and Other New Ross Stories,” Bob Whitecotton (Class of 1934) recalls that he saw his first basketball game in New Ross at the New Ross school yard in a game between Mace High and New Ross High School. The year would have been 1923, and New Ross,...
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