Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same tornado hit nearby Bunker Hill (pop. 1,350), demolished more than 200 of its 300 houses. Other tornadoes tore across the Indiana countryside, blowing over barns and wrecking trees...
...Indiana University picked one of Alvin ("Bo") McMillin's playing and coaching proteges to succeed him: mild, schoolmasterly Clyde B. Smith, 42, onetime Indiana line coach, now head coach at La Crosse (Wis.) State Teachers College...
...Monroeville, a whistle stop on Indiana's frozen countryside, a bonfire crackled and popped. The celebrating went on until 3 a.m. At Portland, two counties away, the townspeople snake-danced around another bonfire. It was the same way at Crawfordsville and Jasper. All Indiana seemed to be aglow. Indiana's 37th annual high-school basketball tourney...
...natives called it "Hoosier hysteria" or "Hoosier hoopla." All but three of Indiana's 782 public high schools-from little Raub High (student body: 18) to Indianapolis' Arsenal Tech (student body: 4,578)-were entered. The grown-ups took it more seriously than the kids. Farmers stopped working. Storekeepers closed up shop and went gallivanting off to watch their local heroes perform. Indiana's excitement was matched in Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota, where other state tourneys are in progress. In the Midwest last week it was easy to prove that basketball, the poor boy's game...
Thirty Broadcasts. When the big hour arrives, 30-odd Indiana radio stations will describe every play to stay-at-homes in every corner of Indiana. The only calm & collected people in the house will be college coaches from such faraway places as North Carolina State and Tulane, in town to size up prospects. Indiana is a prize marketplace for basketball players...