Re-live the state championships at: http://www.marchmadness.org/records/yearly/index.htm I didn't find Tamms HS, but did find that Herrin reigned in '57, and Mt. Vernon in '49, '50 & '54. -Marcia BA wrote: > > Jerry Mullins' postcards from Egypt got me to thinking about stories and > histories that these could illustrate. That got me to thinking about stories > from Egypt. Does anybody remember, 40 or so years ago, when Tamms High > School won the Illinois state basketball championship? > > Altho I live in Lexington and am a student at U of Kentucky, I detest > basketball. They ram it down your throat here. They eat up Spike Lee movies > about basketball. This sort of fanaticism exists in Indiana, North Carolina, > and on and on. > > Well, there can’t be a better basketball story than Tamms HS beating the > best teams from Chicago, East St Louis and the rest of Illinois. Chicago had > a larger population back then than most of these “basketball” states have > now. And how big was Tamms, Illinois? The number I recall is 300, but I > forgot whether that was the total population or the school enrollment. Some > of those people must still be kicking. I’d like for them to get some mass > attention, and maybe draw some away from Kentucky. > > So it’s not Williamson County. It was only all over the news there. > > Bruce Wms.