Bruce.... Remember the Cobden Appleknockers? Now there is another story of David and Big "G"! Jerry Mullins PO Box 733 Colfax, CA 95713 (530)346-1022 Researching: NORMAN/BAKER/SANDERS/THAXTON/MANN/HOPKINS WADKINS/MULLINS/GROVES/RODDEN/COOK/BLYTHE My Web Page : www.geocities.com/heartland/plains/6649 email: [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: BA <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 5:29 PM Subject: [ILWILLIA] Tamms State Champs > 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. > > >