1 spot, that wasnt the case the following two seasons after Williams and company moved on to college. There are also two Wingate graduates who are in the Indiana Football Hall of Fame, Raymond Gaumey Neal and Lee Pete Thorn. College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com, Scores from any date in BAA/NBA or ABA history, Frequently Asked Questions about the NBA, WNBA and Basketball, Basketball-Reference.com Blog and Articles, Subscribe to Stathead Basketball: Get your first month FREE. Nesmith finished with 15 points and nine rebounds in the Bears' 89-69 loss to the Bulldogs. Wingates team was the first to arrive at Indiana University for the March 13-14 tournament, and expected to be the last one to leave. Logos were compiled by the amazing SportsLogos.net. According to A.H. Tuck Williams writing in his book The Big Bang of Basketballthere was a grade school farm boy who put up a small ring on his woodshed in his barnyard near Wingate. that the champs have played all these games on strange floors and have lost none of them by more than four points. The News still counted Wingate among six front-runners for the championship. There was a problem saving your notification. 1 against one of the best high school schedules weve ever evaluated. breaking off athletic relations. The hired referee failed to show up for the game. The 1918 titlegame between Lebanon and Anderson is one of the earliest-known attempts to photograph an Indiana high school championship game. Wingate was a second round pick (No. Among their many victories were games against Romney, Hillsboro, Odell, Linden, Breaks, Waveland, Crawfordsvilles B team, Covington, Roachdale, Greencastle, Colfax, and Cayuga. David Wingate was born in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1914, Milan played in its first state basketball tournament and lost in the first round. By defeating Manual, Wingate advanced to the semi-finals along with Crawfordsville, Lafayette Jefferson, and South Bend. That young coachs name was Paul D. Tony Hinkle, later the legendary coach of the Butler University Bulldogs. Visit ESPN to view the Wingate Bulldogs team stats for the 2020-21 season. The Bulldogs knocked down six 3s in the first half, with Jarren Cottingham making their first two and Andreas Wilson nailing the next four. He scored 451 points in 21 games 1952-53 for a sparkling average of 21.3 points per game. [4] The backup team of Harried, Lewis, Woods, 6-foot-3 junior Derrick Lewis (Northeastern), 6-foot-2 Eric Green (James Madison) and 6-foot-3sophomore Reggie McNeil (a member of Dunbars 1985 mythical national championship team) was definitely a top 25 team in the country. Weeding Out Weed! Subscribe to Stathead Basketball: Get your first month FREEYour All-Access Ticket to the Basketball Reference Database. inBaltimore,Maryland }, Miami), a leaper and tough player inside. Yet the end result failed to meet expectations. Homer realized that time was running out, and he didnt have time to dribble very much. Nevertheless, it was all LR (4-3, 0-1 SAC) in the early going. 2. He played for the Fort Wayne Hoosiers (a team he helped found) and the Chicago Bruins. 1 team. Both teams defeated preseason No. It was the season USA Today began its weekly Super 25 and it helped spread the Poets national notoriety. We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. The Bulldogs led by as many as 26 points at 89-63 as they ultimately cruised to a 20-point triumph. If so, let us know atihb@history.in.gov. Pictured above: Front row Joe Irvin, Carlos Goode, Eddie Allen, Ray Bishop, Coach Grimes Second row Gary Smith, Dallas Jones, David Stephens, Jimmy Hunter, Bill Shall, Durrell Kelp, Manager Max McCullough M.A. With only two hours rest, Wingate started as fresh as if it were their first game and never slowed down. Wingate forward Lee Sinclair scored the first field goal within the first thirty seconds. The Bears had won their previous two SAC openers, including a 75-70 win over the Bulldogs last November in Hickory. He recovered enough to finish the contest, but remembered later, I couldnt dress after the game. The names of Lon Goldsberry, Pete Thorn, Forest Crane, Homer Stonebraker and Jesse Wood appear on that roll. Andrews' stats have been entered for the 59-56 loss @ West Stokes on 1/31/2023 8:00 PM. All rights reserved. After brilliant high school and college careers, he played professional basketball for ten years with the first professional basketball league, the American Basketball League. Lenoir-Rhyne's TJ Nesmith, 21, muscles one up in the post against Wingate's Josh Massey, 1, andJarren Cottingham, 2, during Saturday's game in Hickory. Wingate surged out to an early 12-1 lead. In the victory, Stonebraker accounted for all of Wingates points. They logged 576 miles during the 1912-13 season and 1,675 miles of travel during the 1913-14 season. In previous years, the team, high school, and community would have taken pride in their record, but moved on to thinking about baseball and crop planting. T.W. 1, while the National Sports News Service went with 31-0 Spingarn of Washington, D.C., as its No. They did most of their travel via trains and interurbans. Sports Network Title IX University Map Staff Directory University Website Visiting Teams and Fans WUSPYS VOTE FloSports Live Stats Wingate Live Video & Audio All-Access Videos YouTube Directory Facebook Instagram Twitter Photo Galleries Buy Now Football . Wingate came over from Northern High. Kerr told his neighbors that a young man who was coaching at the University of Chicago took a liking to the Wingate team and scouted for them and helped them prepare for the hated Crawfordsville Athenians. From this small pool, Coach Jesse Wood selected a basketball team comprised of forwards Leland Olin, and Forest Crane, guards John Blacker and Jesse Graves, and Homer Stonebraker at center, with substitutes Lee Sinclair and McKinley Murdock. The recently consolidated Montgomery County schools discarded the inefficient one-room school models, and Wingate High School now boasted a student body of 67, of whom 22 were boys. T.W. Andrews' stats have been entered for the 78-51 win @ Walkertown on 2/9/2023 8:00 PM. The 'Dogs have had 6 Academic All-America honorees & 5 SAC Scholar-Athletes this year while piling up 20 SAC titles! While their record was not as stellar as the 1912-13 season, they played a much more difficult schedule. Action shots are much rarer, likely due to early-20th century Hoosiers having cameras that required long exposure times, which were unable to clearly capture moving subjects. . The 64 Stonebraker was a giant among his competitors. The very calm composure of the players in the photo taken before the game hardly indicated the animosity that developed in the ensuing contest. On 2/15, the T.W. College: Wingate was among thirty-seven teams that entered the two-day tournament held at Indiana Universitys campus on March 14 and 15. Note, this is done in an automated way, so we apologize for any errors, & please. As the two finalists ran out onto the floor for the game before 3,000 spectators, the crowd welcomed the South Bend boys with tremendous applause while the reception Wingate received was cool and indifferent. The game started slowly as both teams stressed defense more than offense. Sign Up For Free Frequently Asked Questions Where was Marshall Wingate born? Please subscribe to keep reading. Set a school NCAA Tournament record with five blocked shots against Wichita State (3/18/06 . On Buzzlearn.com, David is listed as a successful Basketball Player who was born in the year of 1963. Clinton managed to control the lead from the opening tip. inBrooklyn,New York No wonder fans and sportswriters alike called Stoney, the Paul Bunyan of basketball. Newspaper accounts frequently reported, Stonebraker was practically the whole team at Wingate.. Wingate also came out hot in the second half, scoring the first eight points and 10 of the first 12 to build a 52-35 lead. Situated in northwestern Montgomery County, Wingate was a small school with only 67 students. After the suspension, both teams played an ambitious independent schedule against the best competition they could find. 1 team in the fall of 1981 with Camden (N.J.) at No. .hide-if-no-js { When the game resumed, Wingates defense clamped down and Stonebraker scored five unanswered points to secure a 17-13 victory. Watch. Dunbars 59-game winning steak ended in the opening game of the 1983-84 season when it lost to preseason No. For all of basketballs cultural worth to the state, finding a photo of a basketball game from before the 1920s is a difficult task. Camden featured the No. Bogues came over from Southern High after the 1981 season. Andrews varsity basketball team lost their away playoff game against East Gaston (Mt. Stat keeping for basketball teams. He is also a member of the Wabash College Athletic Hall of Fame and the Montgomery County Basketball Hall of Fame. Required fields are marked *. Join our linker program. The legend lives on for the first Indiana high school to win two straight IHSAA state crowns. The ball went over two beams near the top of the roof of the gym and went through the basket perfectly and they won. You can cancel at any time. Homer Stonebraker was Indianas first authentic high school basketball superstar. Stonebraker, who accounted for half of his teams points, collapsed from exhaustion near the end of the game. The win was Wingates second straight, as it also earned a 70-61 victory at Coastal Georgia in its previous contest. Roger Brown weighed 205 lbs (92 kg) when playing. After the mid-season slump, Wingate closed the regular season strong, and went 6-1 over their final games. Muggsy finished with 15. This moment was photographically commemorated because Wingate was the defending state champion, having won back-to-back titles in 1913 and 1914. Muggsy finished with 15. Currently you have JavaScript disabled. While the documentary focuses on the humanitarian aspects of the game, we present facts about the basketball team and its on-court performance against the backdrop of this fascinating story about arguably the greatest high school basketball team of all-time. Copyright 2000-2023 Sports Reference LLC. 2 DeMatha, 76-73, which snapped Baltimores longest winning streak. Smith ranks 14th on the final Montgomery County scoring list as he scored 1047 points in his career at Wingate and Coal Creek Central. Early basketball team photographs are rather plentiful, and frequently appeared in yearbooks, and newspapers. the official stats partner of the NBA, NHL and MLB. {{start_at_rate}} {{format_dollars}} {{start_price}} {{format_cents}} {{term}}, {{promotional_format_dollars}}{{promotional_price}}{{promotional_format_cents}} {{term}}, Hickory native Brayden Frasure stars alongside Tom Hanks, Bill Murray in Wes Anderson's "Asteroid City", Former Hickory sinkhole land sold; tire seller paid $500k for property on US 70, Downtown Hickory's Cowa-Sak restaurant offers sushi, burgers, Newton parade, fireworks at Hickory Crawdads for 4th of July, Man involuntarily committed after standoff with Newton, Catawba County officers, Valdese man killed when driver strikes construction workers on NC 150, Claremont man charged with DWI in fatal crash in Iredell County, Alexander County EMS: Burn victim airlifted with life-threatening injuries, 2 firefighters, 1 deputy from Catawba County honored during bike ride across the Carolinas, See video of vehicles being vandalized at Hickory recreation center, 10-year-old truck has cost me thousands in taxes, Alexander Central student earns scholarship to Stanford, 500,000 miles, 48 states: Stony Pont rider is proud Motor Maid, Man dead after shooting in Burke County; charges pending, Lenoir man killed, another person seriously injured in Caldwell County crash, GALLERY: Wingate at Lenoir-Rhyne men's basketball. On August 8, ESPN released a 30 For 30 documentary titled Baltimore Boys about the special high school basketball teams at Dunbar High School in Baltimore, Md. Bogues would just punish ball-handlers and the team was unselfish; anyone could go offoffensively and nobody worried about individual scoring. 32 in the preseason Basketball Weekly rankings, No. Brian Good enters his 15th season as the head men's basketball coach in the 2022-23 season. = Dunbar ended up 29-0 and ranked No. After the Mid-West tourney, the Spartans were proclaimed National Champions for the year of 1920. However, there was no Milan Miracle in 14, and Wingate easily dispatched their fellow small-town foe, 42-14. Smith played three years for the Spartans in the early 50s and in 40 games racked up 651 points for an average of 16.3 points per game. In light of Williams honors, it was actuallyMuggsy (who averaged eightppg, 10 apg and eight spg) who was voted team MVP. At the JohnstownTournament, 6-foot-6 Reggie Lewis(Northeastern) was tourney MVP off the bench. Jesse Wood was the coach of the Wingate team. Roger Brown averaged 17.4 points, 6.2 rebounds, and 3.8 assists per game. and other parochial schools in the area were part of the MSA then. Brown averaged 13 ppgand James 10 ppg. There were many outstanding players in the early years, five of whom are in the Indiana High School Basketball Hall of Fame. Similar to the Calvert Hall team the year prior, Wade beefed up the schedule and everyone predicted a stellar season even though the pressure was on. Sports Network Title IX University Map Staff Directory University Website Visiting Teams and Fans WUSPYS VOTE FloSports Live Stats Wingate Live Video & Audio All-Access Videos YouTube Directory Facebook Instagram Twitter Photo Galleries Buy Now Football . What would have happened in 1981-82 if Dunbar had won that triple overtime game the priorseason? On 2/17, the T.W. The SPORTS REFERENCE and STATHEAD trademarks are owned exclusively by Sports Reference LLC. They had no gymnasium. Cottingham added 19 points on 7-of-9 shooting including 3-of-3 from behind the arc, while Josh Massey scored 17, Vontrez Roberts had 11 and Clark tallied 10. Wade had strictrules and the team never let up or played down to the competition. T.W. The last Wingate basketball team was in 1953. Philadelphia 76ers, 2nd round (20th pick, 44th overall), 1986 NBA Draft, More David Wingate pages at Sports Reference. Visit ESPN to view the latest Wingate Bulldogs news, scores, stats, standings, rumors, and more . Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. Bill Boone is a local sports historian who contributes to the Journal Review. Paul Laurence Dunbar in Baltimore, Maryland, Draft: With its incredible talent, depth and production, Garf called them one of the top five teams of all-time. Wingate Spartans state basketball champions in 1913 and 1914. He was captain of the Wabash College National Champions in 1924 and a member of the Wabash fourth Wonder Five. WINGATE - The UNC Pembroke women's basketball team took control of the inside game scoring 26 points in the paint, but Wingate capitalized with 20 points off of turnovers for a 55-54 victory over the Braves on Saturday evening inside Cuddy Arena for the Conference Challenge. 22 overall, even Wade was a bit in disbelief, but also quite proud of his former players. By the end of 1981 season, the rivalry between Calvert Hall and Dunbar (located in East Baltimore) had grown heated. Wingates enrollment had dropped to 48, but they still had Homer Stonebraker and four other returning players in Leland Olin, Lee Sinclair, Jesse Graves and John Blacker. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. Dunbar coach Bob Wade said, Williams is like E.F. Hutton, when he speaks, the other guyslisten.Williams averaged 24.3 ppg and 12 rpg as ajunior. Wingates first lead came on a dunk by Sasha Letino that made it 16-15 with just over 11 minutes remaining in the first half, although LR later grabbed a 31-28 advantage courtesy of another 7-0 run that included a 3 from LeGania and back-to-back layups from Salle Wilson and LJ McCoy. The 20th-ranked Lenoir-Rhyne womens basketball team had no trouble with Young Harris on the road Saturday afternoon in Georgia, thumping the Mountain Lions 80-40 behind 17 points from Jalen Gathers and 12 apiece from Blaikley Crooks and Brandi Hudson. Roger Brown Overview Game Logs Game-by-game stat line for the player 1968-69 (ABA) Player stats broken down into various categories; i.e. All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC. Gates wrote, They were down by a point, and the opposition took a shot and missed. Wingate opened the 1913-14 season without facing any quality competition. Good has compiled a 117-88 record during his seven seasons at Wingate. Data Provided By Junior Reggie Williams(Georgetown) really came on during the 1981-82 season, as the 6-foot-6 forward may have already been the teams best overall player. Among those enrolled in that student body, however, was one of the best Indiana basketball players of that generation, Homer Stonebraker. Do you have a sports website? Whenever Lafayette. Over the first third of the season, against Williamsport, Cutler, Advance, Rockville, and Waveland, they averaged 40 points, and held their opponents to 16.5. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. After Wade moved on to the University of Maryland following the 1985-86 season, Dunbar, under Pete Pompey, won its fourth mythical national crown in 1991-92. The Wingate five was even acclaimed as National High School Champions in 1920 when they were banned from IHSAA competition along with Crawfordsville. Between 1,500 and 2,000 fans attended the opening rounds of the 1913 tournament, but fewer than fifty showed up to watch Wingates opening contest against Whiting, which many pundits believed would be a walk-away for Whiting. Six-foot-3Keith James (South Carolina/UNLV) was on the bench in 1982. As many of you readers are aware, the Wingate basketball team won the Indiana state championships in 1913 and 1914. . Sports Network Title IX University Map Staff Directory University Website Visiting Teams and Fans WUSPYS VOTE FloSports Live Stats Wingate Live Video & Audio All-Access Videos YouTube Directory . In his book, Indiana High School Basketballs 20 Most Dominant Players, Dave Krider observed that Small Forward Our mission is to preserve and promote the, rich basketball heritage of Crawfordsville, History of Wingate Basketball: The Homer Stonebraker Era. Wingate again played underdog to the heavily favored Jeff squad, but Wingate never trailed in the contest and defeated the Tippecanoe team, 23-14. Calvert Hall trailed preseason No. Although four of the Dunbar players reached their dreams of NBA ball, it was not always a smooth ride. 2 Camden late and won, 67-62. When was Marshall Wingate drafted? Much has been written about the great Wingate teams that won back-to-back State basketball championships in 1913 and 1914 and rightly so. T.W. This photo is likely posed, which is why all the players are in focus with the exception of the top right defenders blurry arms. All rights reserved. Major Wingate stats and bio. Andrews varsity basketball team lost their home conference game against Reidsville (NC) by a score of 72-69. On the eve of their Kokomo game in 1915 they could not even boast about their 5-6 record. Just like the Rochester game, the first team to score two points in overtime would be the winner. The Lenoir-Rhyne mens basketball team scored the first seven points of its South Atlantic Conference opener against Wingate and led for much of the opening half, but the visiting Bulldogs eventually grabbed the advantage and pulled away for an 89-69 victory on Saturday afternoon at Shuford Arena. Wingates coach Hugh Vandivier refereed the second half and according to the newspaper reports showed favoritism to his own team, which drew the ire of the Kokomo fans. The Fort Wayne team was referred to as the Caseys. We provide up-to-date basketball scores and statistics for every professional player and team in every major league in the world, including all NBA scores and stats since 1949. Javascript is required for the selection of a player. How tall is Marshall Wingate? T.W. Is This the Earliest Photo of an Indiana High School Basketball Game? Wingate, who had played much of his first two seasons at guard but moved to small forward this year, played nearly 1,000 minutes without ever fouling out, and tied his career high with 26 points against Pittsburgh in the last home game of his Georgetown career. Copyright 2000-2023 Sports Reference LLC. David Wingate is not in the Hall of Fame. Late in the game, Wingate held a 13-12 lead before South Bend tied the game with a free throw to send it into overtime. Jalen Johnson found Malik LeGania for an alley-oop to start the scoring before Nas Tyson made a layup and a 3-pointer to make it 7-0 less than two minutes in. Andrews varsity basketball team won their home conference game against McMichael (Mayodan, NC) by a score of 77-51. Players off that talented 29-0 Dunbar team, however, didnt quite have post-high school success of the 1982-83 team. Wingate was led by 6-4 Homer Stonebraker who took his snow shovel and cleared the path to New Richmond, six miles away, so that he and his teammates could practice in a real gymnasium one day a week. Wingates team likely expected their next opponent to be more challenging than their first two, when they squared off against Montgomery County rival Crawfordsville at 8 oclock the next morning. The use of software that blocks ads hinders our ability to serve you the content you came here to enjoy. Quick access to game by game stats. Coach Wood conducted practices in "a small room in the southwest corner of the basement," or "outdoors when the weather permitted." Twice a week the coach and his squad would travel six miles to New Richmond, which was the nearest gym in the county. The standing room only crowd witnessed a neck and neck tussle, and one of the most competitive games of the tournament. MP Stats for iPad. The governor praised the team members, saying, You boys have become champions and are able to display great endurance because you laid the foundation by leading the right sort of life. He also extolled the rural life that the team members knew, The farm forms the basis for a healthful and moral life, and the occupation of the farmer is indeed an ideal one., While Milan and Hoosiers have become the prevailing archetype for Hoosier Hysteria, it is important to remember that they were part of a long tradition dating back to the earliest years of the state tournament. To find out more information about the Braves Club, visit, The University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Wingate and New Richmond consolidated into Coal Creek Central in 1953 where they won one more sectional and two more county crowns. Andrews' stats have been entered for the 77-51 win vs. McMichael on 2/1/2023 8:30 PM. Michael Brown (Syracuse/Clemson), a 6-foot-3 junior who started on the 1982-83 team, transferred over from Cardinal Gibbons after the 1982season.