Big Bang of Basketball
Every serious student of the history of basketball will be enthralled to read the Big Bang of Basketball, particularly those who are familiar with the role Indiana and Coach John Wooden played in the dispersion of basketball popularity to the rest of the United States and the world.
You can now purchase this 166 page book, including the 1913 Wingate High School yearbook dedicated to their Spartan Basketball Champions, and learn the 1900-1930 history and greatness of basketball.
Foreword by Iconic Coach Del Harris
NBA Coach of the Year with Chinese legend Yao Ming
“Sport is the best means of communication between people from different religions and countries.” Yao Ming
Homer Stonebraker 1913
Indiana State Champion MVP
Meet Homer Stonebraker, the grade school farm boy who's relentless practice prepared him for a high school, college and professional basketball career that put him in the same class as the all-time basketball greats from Indiana. The founder of the Harlem Globetrotters, Abe Saperstein described Homer Stonebraker as “the greatest all-round center he had ever seen at the time.”.
ALONZO GOLDSBERRY 1920
U.S. FIRST HIGH SCHOOL - COLLEGE ALL AMERICAN
During 1919, Wabash hired a former Crawfordville High School graduate and football-basketball star as coach. Pete Vaughan selected Notre Dame and had a very successful football and basketball career. He returned to Crawfordsville, and Wabash just in time for football-basketball Wingate high school stars Goldsberry, Crane, and Thorn. Goldsberry, All-American center, led the Little Giants to victory at the “National College Basketball Tournament”, as he had done for Wingate in their “National Interscholastic Tournament”.
WARD (PIGGY) LAMBERT
COACH JOHN WOODEN MENTOR
The rule change eliminating the jump ball after every successful field goal, provided Lambert’s “fast break” basketball to completely change the tempo, offenses, and defensive strategies of basketball forever. His adoption of speed in the game, was the backbone of his 1932 book he dedicated to his coach Ralph Jones, "Practical Basketball” in 1932. This is the same year his Purdue University team was declared "national champions”, led by his aggressive, speedy prototypical guard, All-American John Wooden.
