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Hoosier Hysteria LbNA #12151 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:flagbearer
Plant date:Nov 13, 2004
Location:
City:Plymouth
County:Marshall
State:Indiana
Boxes:1
Found by: well heeled
Last found:May 28, 2007
Status:FFFFFFFFFF
Last edited:Nov 13, 2004
NOTICE: 8/07 THIS BOX IS MISSING FOR THE 3RD TIME and will not be replaced.

In early December 1891, Luther Gulick, chairman of the physical education department at the School for Christian Workers (now Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts, instructed physical education teacher James Naismith to invent a new game to entertain the school's athletes during the winter season. With an ordinary soccer ball, Naismith assembled his class of 18 young men, appointed captains of two nine-player teams, and introduced them to the game of Basket Ball (then two words). Naismith, who had outlined 13 original rules, dispatched the school janitor to find two boxes to be fastened to the balcony railing at opposite sides of the gymnasium, where they would serve as goals. The school janitor, however, only found two half-bushel peach baskets, and the game was played with these. When a goal was made the ball had to be retrieved by climbing a ladder. That led to what some people feel is the greatest sport invented. Hoosiers are some of those people. This letterbox is for all the Indiana basketball fans and is placed in Plymouth remembering its 1982 State Basketball Championship in an exciting barn burner against Gary Roosevelt. In that game Scott Skiles scored 39 points, went on to be an All-American at Michigan State and was drafted by the Milwaukee Bucks. He holds the NBA record for most assists in a game with 30 as a member of the Orlando Magic. In all he played 10 seasons in the NBA. He was head coach for the Phoenix Suns and is currently head coach of the Chicago Bulls.

You will find this box in Centennial Park on old highway 31 north of down town Plymouth. Find a small square garage with an Indian cooking stone at the right front corner. There is a tree behind the garage. To the right of the tree and over the edge you will find Hoosier Hysteria hiding behind a some carefully placed stones.