The Mail-Journal, Volume 9, Number 4, Milford, Kosciusko County, 23 February 1972 — Page 16

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Warsaw High School Is '72 Sectional Host

The Indiana High School Athletic Association has moved the 1972 sectional tournament bach to Warsaw Triton School Corporation, composed of the Bourbon. Etna Green and Tippecanoe communities, served as the host school in 1971.

1921 Handbook Tells About Basketball Indiana Style

The tourney will be played in the Warsaw gym which is located on East Smith street. No reason was given as to why the tourney was moved back to Warsaw. Athletic director Darrell W. Boling stated no special effort was made to have

Doug Pilcher of Syracuse loaned us a copy of the Indiana High School Athletic Association’s 18th annual hand book and report of the board of control. The handbook was printed in 1921 and featured among other items one on the team from Syracuse. Members of that now famous Syracuse team were Roy Klink, Paul Riddle, Andrew Hibner, Emery Druckamiller, Orva Klink, Everett Evans, Guy Rang and Fred Couts. Court Slabaugh was the coach. Merle Abbett was president of the board of control that year and James Leffel of Warsaw was the treasurer. The sectional tournaments of 1921 began on March 4 and continued through the sth. Schools were assigned by counties with the intention of having no more than 16 teams in each tourney. Warsaw served as host for eight schools from Kosciusko county and five from Marshall county. Tournament hosts were instructed to begin the “entertainment”, if necessary, at 7 a.m. on Friday, March 4, and to continue, if necessary, until 9 a.m. Sunday, March 6. The admission fee to all tourney games was 35 cents for single session tickets and $1.50 for season tickets. No more tickets were to be sold than the capacity of the house would justify. No prizes of any kind were to be awarded to any school or individual from any source. The winning teams of the sectional tourneys constituted participants of the regional tourneys. The

the tourney brought back to Kosciusko county by those in Warsaw other than the usual application filed with the IHSAA. The tourney was held in Warsaw for six years then moved to Triton last year. Boling said he felt Warsaw had

adequate facilities to accommodate fans. The official seating capacity of the school gym is 3,473. Triton’s gym seats 3,474. On behalf of the school Boling extended a welcome to all six

winner of Warsaw’s sectional played at Purdue that year. The other regional was held at Indiana university. The final tourney was held in Indianapolis on March 18 and 19. Entrants were the teams of the two regional tourneys. The three Indianapolis high schools awarded the winning school a shield or similar trophy and each member of the team received an individual trophy. A medal, known as the J. Gimbel prize for mental attitude, was giveffFo the boy showing the best mental and moral qualities at the tourney. Sectional Results Results of the sectional tournaments listed in the book showed Syracuse a 19-13 winner over Culver in the final game. In order to win the tourney the Yellow Jackets defeated Inwood 27-8, Tippecanoe 39-14 and Warsaw 14-9 before stopping Culver in the final game. In the regional Syracuse stopped Crawfordsville 2016 before being defeated by Huntington 32-27. The Jackets lost only four games that year — Warsaw 18-16, Nappanee 30-10, Wolf Lake 32-22 and to Huntington. Yellow Jacket Emery Druckamiller was named to the all state team that year. He is the only player from this county to ever be so named. The book also gives detailed reports on the state track meets and a full report of the IHSAA’S yearly activities.

teams in the tourney — Akron, Mentone, Rochester, Triton, Wawasee and host Warsaw. He commented on the fact, “it looks like a balanced sectional with Rochester, Triton, Wawasee and Warsaw figuring among the outstanding teams.”