One Small Town, One Crazy Coach
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 ...
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 ...
