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Hoosier Hysteria

Author : Meri Henriques Vahl
Publisher : She Writes Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781631523663

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Hoosier Hysteria by Meri Henriques Vahl Pdf

Indiana University, September 1963. Meri Henriques, a naïve freshman from New York, arrives on campus thinking she’s about to enroll at an idyllic Midwestern college. Instead, she discovers a storm is brewing. An intriguing cast of characters inhabits Meri’s new and often troubled world: Katherine “Pixie” Gates, Meri’s charming and quirky roommate; Rachel, brilliant and sarcastic fellow New Yorker; Daniel, a tough radical with a tender heart; folk singer Derek Stone, Meri’s crush; and Shennandoah Waters, a white coed who only dates black men or exotic foreigners, much to her ultra-conservative parents’ horror. Over the course of Meri’s first year at college, tragedy strikes twice: John Kennedy is assassinated, and a young, black IU basketball player is castrated and thrown into a ditch—murdered for dating a white coed. And finally, that year’s commencement ceremonies bring an infamous symbol of white supremacy to campus, endangering anyone who dared to protest—thrusting Meri into the middle of violent and escalating racial tensions. Vivid and compelling, Hoosier Hysteria is a timely story of prejudice and political unrest that, today more than ever before, must be told.

Hoosier Hysteria, Sons, and Other Stories

Author : Larry Moran
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781452079172

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Hoosier Hysteria, Sons, and Other Stories by Larry Moran Pdf

Eight stories of terror, suspense, mystery, humor, and surprise: A United States senator and vice-presidential candidate is forced to choose who in his family will live and who will die; a newspaper reporter, journalisms answer to Inspector Clouseau, witnesses a murder, but police can find no evidence a crime has been committed; two elderly women share an afternoon of uncertainty and terror; a teenage boy dreams of becoming a star basketball player so he can win a girls affection; a writer learns about truth, honor, greed, betrayal, and himself; a young man follow a famous uncle in time travel to find the beautiful grass-skirted women of 16th century Hawaii; the world faces environmental calamity after ignoring one mans plea to stop polluting the skies; and an old man fears dying along but learns it is not his worst nightmare.

Hoosier Hysteria - a ’67 Griffith Panther Memoir

Author : Rick Butler
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781532002991

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Hoosier Hysteria - a ’67 Griffith Panther Memoir by Rick Butler Pdf

This memoir focuses on Ricks senior high school basketball team the 1967 Griffith Panthers. This team made basketball school history winning their 1st ever state tournament sectional and ending with a record of 20 wins and 4 losses. The memoir chronicles Ricks basketball experience starting in grade school and ending with coaching his granddaughter, Mayas community basketball team. All of this represented Ricks glorious ride through Hoosier hysteria especially his senior year. In 1967 the Indiana state basketball tournament still had no classes or divisions based on school size. All schools played each other with small schools competing against the large schools and everyone else in between. Griffiths 1967 basketball team was basically a state ranked team in spite of its very small size an enrollment of 600. This Cinderella team was revered by the town. Griffith had been waiting for a team like this forever and the 1967 team became their team of destiny. If you liked the movie Hoosiers...

Sports & Recreation Fads

Author : Frank Hoffmann,Beulah B Ramirez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781135894740

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Sports & Recreation Fads by Frank Hoffmann,Beulah B Ramirez Pdf

True to the spirit of the all-American athlete and our society's seemingly endless pursuit of and passion for leisure activities is Sports & Recreation Fads. This readable and fascinating reference book highlights some of the most notable as well as some long-forgotten pastimes and personalities. Sporting and recreation events have thrived in the United States for more than two centuries. Just about every sport and recreation embraced from Colonial America to the present has had its faddish aspects. The fascinating introduction provides a basic understanding of the importance of fads in the development of sports and recreation. No book on sports fads would be complete without several chapters on baseball, and this exciting volume is no different--Hank Aaron's 715th home run, baseball card collecting, Mark “the Bird” Fidrych's shining season with the Detroit Tigers, Bo Jackson's double career, Jackie Robinson's success in breaking the color barrier, and Pete Rose's gambling troubles--a true slice of Americana, the best and the worst of our favorite pastime! From the controversial people and events in professional athletics--Mohammed Ali, Joe Namath, Mike Tyson, the “battle of the sexes” between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, the “Black Sox Scandal,” and the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders, to the heroes--Charles Atlas, Joe Louis, and Babe Ruth, Hoffmann and Bailey illustrate the often fickle and sometimes enduring interest that Americans have for sports figures and their games. This informative and entertaining book also examines our personal quest for fitness, our devotion to automobiling, and our love of games, including bridge, charades, crossword puzzles, Monopoly, Dungeons & Dragons, Scrabble, and Trivial Pursuit. Sports &Recreation Fads is a handy guide to our favorite leisure activities of the last 200 years.

Indiana Hoosiers Fans' Bucket List

Author : Terry Hutchens,Bill Murphy
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781633199231

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Indiana Hoosiers Fans' Bucket List by Terry Hutchens,Bill Murphy Pdf

Every Indiana Hoosiers fan has a bucket list of activities to take part in at some point in their lives. But even the most die-hard fans haven't done everything there is to experience in and around Bloomington, Indiana. From visiting the campus to copying Keith Smart's jump shot to win the 1987 national championship, author Terry Hutchens and Bill Murphy provide ideas, recommendations, and insider tips for must-see places and can't-miss activities near the Assembly Hall. But not every experience requires a trip to campus; long-distance Hoosiers fans can cross some items off their list from the comfort of their own homes. Whether you're attending every home game or supporting the Hoosiers from afar, there's something for every fan to do in The Indiana Hoosiers Fans' Bucket List.

The Secret Game

Author : Scott Ellsworth
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780316244633

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The Secret Game by Scott Ellsworth Pdf

Winner of the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing The true story of the game that never should have happened--and of a nation on the brink of monumental change In the fall of 1943, at the little-known North Carolina College for Negroes, Coach John McLendon was on the verge of changing basketball forever. A protégé of James Naismith, the game's inventor, McLendon taught his team to play the full-court press and run a fast break that no one could catch. His Eagles would become the highest-scoring college team in America--a basketball juggernaut that shattered its opponents by as many as sixty points per game. Yet his players faced danger whenever they traveled backcountry roads. Across town, at Duke University, the best basketball squad on campus wasn't the Blue Devils, but an all-white military team from the Duke medical school. Composed of former college stars from across the country, the team dismantled everyone they faced, including the Duke varsity. They were prepared to take on anyone--until an audacious invitation arrived, one that was years ahead of anything the South had ever seen before. What happened next wasn't on anyone's schedule. Based on years of research, The Secret Game is a story of courage and determination, and of an incredible, long-buried moment in the nation's sporting past. The riveting, true account of a remarkable season, it is the story of how a group of forgotten college basketball players, aided by a pair of refugees from Nazi Germany and a group of daring student activists, not only blazed a trail for a new kind of America, but helped create one of the most meaningful moments in basketball history.

Hoosiers, Third Edition

Author : Phillip M. Hoose
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780253021687

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Hoosiers, Third Edition by Phillip M. Hoose Pdf

Named by The New York Times as "a knowing, respectful and caring look at heartland America" and containing a new foreword by legendary player Bob Plump, this is a book every basketball lover should own. The best of Phillip Hoose’s classic writings are included here with a fresh look on Indiana’s favorite and most beloved sport. A new edition of a well-known Indiana classic, Hoosiers profiles some of the world’s most famous basketball players and coaches—Larry Bird, Bobby Plump, Damon Bailey, Steve Alford, Stephanie White, and Bob Knight among them—along with Indiana towns, schools, and programs. The ultimate book for the diehard fan, Hoosiers: The Fabulous Basketball Life of Indiana explores Hoosier hysteria in all its glory.

Hoosier Schools

Author : William J. Reese
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Educational change
ISBN : 0253333628

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Hoosier Schools by William J. Reese Pdf

""This anthology is important for historians of education, but... it has a larger purpose. Public schools have 'remained a faithful barometer of the major economic, political and social changes that swept across the nation.' Social historians can learn much from this well-written anthology."" -- Journal of American History .."". a fine contribution to the history of public policy studies."" -- The Public Historian School reform activists sometimes forget that schools are a product of history, that many proposed reforms were tried before -- with mixed results. That understanding of the past is critical to our understanding of current efforts to improve schools. These original studies of school reform in Indiana, from before the Civil War to the most recent efforts, offer a much-needed perspective on the reoccurring struggle to remake the public schools in a new image.

Electric Indiana

Author : Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253067142

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Electric Indiana by Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes Pdf

In the early twentieth century, an epic battle was waged across America between the interurban railway and the automobile, two technologies that arose at roughly the same time in the late 1890s. Nowhere was this conflict more evident than in the Midwest, and specifically Indiana, where cities of industry such as Indianapolis, Gary, and Terre Haute were growing faster every day. By 1904, Indianapolis had opened the Traction Terminal, which was widely acclaimed to be the largest and most impressive interurban station in the world. Yet, today there is only 90-mile remnant of this one great system still operating within Indiana. Featuring over 90 illustrations and featuring contemporary accounts and newspaper articles from the period, Electric Indiana is a biographical study of the rise and fall of a onetime important transportation technology that achieved its most impressive development within the Hoosier state.

Rooting for the Home Team

Author : Daniel A. Nathan
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780252094859

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Rooting for the Home Team by Daniel A. Nathan Pdf

Rooting for the Home Team examines how various American communities create and maintain a sense of collective identity through sports. Looking at large cities such as Chicago, Baltimore, and Los Angeles as well as small rural towns, suburbs, and college towns, the contributors consider the idea that rooting for local athletes and home teams often symbolizes a community's preferred understanding of itself, and that doing so is an expression of connectedness, public pride and pleasure, and personal identity. Some of the wide-ranging essays point out that financial interests also play a significant role in encouraging fan bases, and modern media have made every seasonal sport into yearlong obsessions. Celebrities show up for big games, politicians throw out first pitches, and taxpayers pay plenty for new stadiums and arenas. The essays in Rooting for the Home Team cover a range of professional and amateur athletics, including teams in basketball, football, baseball, and even the phenomenon of no-glove softball. Contributors are Amy Bass, Susan Cahn, Mark Dyreson, Michael Ezra, Elliott J. Gorn, Christopher Lamberti, Allison Lauterbach, Catherine M. Lewis, Shelley Lucas, Daniel A. Nathan, Michael Oriard, Carlo Rotella, Jaime Schultz, Mike Tanier, David K. Wiggins, and David W. Zang.

Mac's Boys

Author : Jason Hiner
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780253218148

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Mac's Boys by Jason Hiner Pdf

This is the story of the 1953 Hoosiers, NCAA champions, coached by Branch McCracken and boldly led by star players Bobby Leonard and Don Schlundt. This legendary Indiana University team from the pre–Bob Knight era has begun to fade from memory, but Mac's Boys brings it vividly back to life. One of the Hoosier state's most beloved basketball teams, the 1953 Hoosiers was also one of the best in the history of college hoops. It was a squad that had a great coach, a pair of star players, and teammates who accepted their roles and executed them flawlessly. With Leonard and Schlundt sharing the spotlight, there was the versatile forward Dick Farley (who would have been an All-American had he played on any other team), tenacious rebounder Charlie Kraak, and the hustling, ball-hawking guard Burke Scott. They were the heart of a team that put together one of the greatest hot streaks ever seen in Big Ten basketball, and then capped it off with a run through the NCAA tournament. Mac's Boys recreates the terrific story of Indiana's magical 1952–53 season. For Hoosier fans especially, it will become a treasured tale that illuminates one of the most glorious chapters of Indiana University basketball history.

National Pastimes

Author : Katharina Bonzel
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496218247

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National Pastimes by Katharina Bonzel Pdf

Sports have long fascinated filmmakers from Hollywood and beyond, from Bend It Like Beckham to Chariots of Fire to Rocky. Though sports films are diverse in their approach, style, and storytelling modes, National Pastimes discloses the common emotional and visual cues that belie each sports film's underlying nationalistic impulses. Katharina Bonzel unravels the delicate matrix of national identity, sports, and emotion through the lens of popular sports films in comparative national contexts, demonstrating in the process how popular culture provides a powerful vehicle for the development and maintenance of identities of place across a range of national cinemas. As films reflect the ways in which myths of nation and national belonging change over time, they are implicated in important historical moments, from Cold War America to the class dynamics of 1980s Thatcherite Britain to the fragmented sense of nation in post-unification Germany. Bonzel shows how sports films provide a means for renegotiating the boundaries of national identity in an accessible, engaging form. National Pastimes opens up new ways of understanding how films appeal to the emotions, using myth-like constructions of the past to cultivate spectators' engagement with historical events.

Have You Ever Heard of Ed Buntin Town?

Author : Robert Allen Shawhan
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 9780595339792

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Have You Ever Heard of Ed Buntin Town? by Robert Allen Shawhan Pdf

THE HEART AND SOUL OF A SMALL TOWN To fully understand the strength of a small town, one must live in a small town or learn about one or more by investigation and research. Knowing the town history brings forth action and vigor, and reveals the soul and spirit of the town, thus, giving it life. Small towns across the fruited plains make up the solid base for what history has shown to be the heartland of America. Ed Buntin Town reveals: The impact of tragedy. How people caring about people provides solid friendships and brings about cohesion. Faith as the basis of morality. The necessity of the triumvirate: family, church, and school. The meaning of Hoosier Hysteria, an Indiana tradition. Here is a book worth reading, one that is uplifting in knowledge and fulfilling to the reader.

Hoosiers and the American Story

Author : Madison, James H.,Sandweiss, Lee Ann
Publisher : Indiana Historical Society
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780871953636

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Hoosiers and the American Story by Madison, James H.,Sandweiss, Lee Ann Pdf

A supplemental textbook for middle and high school students, Hoosiers and the American Story provides intimate views of individuals and places in Indiana set within themes from American history. During the frontier days when Americans battled with and exiled native peoples from the East, Indiana was on the leading edge of America’s westward expansion. As waves of immigrants swept across the Appalachians and eastern waterways, Indiana became established as both a crossroads and as a vital part of Middle America. Indiana’s stories illuminate the history of American agriculture, wars, industrialization, ethnic conflicts, technological improvements, political battles, transportation networks, economic shifts, social welfare initiatives, and more. In so doing, they elucidate large national issues so that students can relate personally to the ideas and events that comprise American history. At the same time, the stories shed light on what it means to be a Hoosier, today and in the past.

The Sons of Westwood

Author : John Matthew Smith
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780252095054

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The Sons of Westwood by John Matthew Smith Pdf

For more than a decade, the UCLA dynasty defined college basketball. In twelve seasons from 1964 to 1975, John Wooden's teams won ten national titles, including seven consecutive championships. The Bruins made history by breaking numerous records, but they also rose to prominence during a turbulent age of political unrest and youthful liberation. When Lew Alcindor and Bill Walton--the most famous college basketball players of their generation--spoke out against racism, poverty, and the Vietnam War, they carved out a new role for athletes, casting their actions on and off the court in a political light. The Sons of Westwood tells the story of the most significant college basketball program at a pivotal period in American cultural history. It weaves together a story of sports and politics in an era of social and cultural upheaval, a time when college students and college athletes joined the civil rights movement, demonstrated against the Vietnam War, and rejected the dominant Cold War culture. This is the story of America's culture wars played out on the basketball court by some of college basketball's most famous players and its most memorable coach.