Page 31 - The History of Lafayette Area Boys Basketball

1916: Lafayette wins the State Championship by defeating Crawfordsville 27-26 OT. Lafayette finishes w/ a
record of 20-4.
State Finals Appearance: Crawfordsville, Lafayette Jeff
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1 Team All-State: Monte Grimes (Crawfordsville), Tilson & Campbell (Lafayette)
1917: The Montmorenci Tigers, under the direction of Earl Martin, complete an undefeated regular season & finish
w/ a record of 24-1. Their lone loss will be to Lafayette Jeff in Sectional play.
State Finals Appearance: Lafayette Jeff, Wingate
1918: State Finals Appearance: Montmorenci
1919: Lafayette is defeated in the state title game by Bloomington 18-15.
State Finals Appearance: Crawfordsville, Lafayette Jeff, Wingate
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1 Team All-State: Sinks & LeGally (Lafayette)
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a. Crawfordsville & Wingate are declared ineligible by the IHSAA on November 19 , 1919. Both
teams will play an independent schedule throughout the Midwest for the remainder of the season.
1920s

1920: Lafayette is defeated in the state title game by Franklin by a score of 31-13.
State Finals Appearance: Lafayette Jeff, Veedersburg
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1 Team All-State: Clement Crowe (Lafayette)
a. Don Shelton (Crawfordsville) finishes the season with a career total of 1005 points to become
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the 1 area player to score 1000 points in his career. Shelton left Crawfordsville after this
season, his Junior season.

1921: The Regional is added to the IHSAA State Tournament. The Regional champion will advance to the 16-team

State Finals through 1935.
State Finals Appearance: Frankfort, Lafayette Jeff
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1 Team All-State: Clement Crowe (Lafayette)
1922: Clement Crowe (Lafayette Jeff) finished his career w/ 1048 points to set the career scoring record for the
Lafayette area. He will attend Notre Dame to play basketball.
State Finals Appearance: Cutler, Frankfort
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a. Howard Hall (Frankfort) opens on November 3 , 1922 w/ a seating capacity of 3500. Howard
Hall will be the largest high school gym in Indiana until 1924, when Martinsville opens a new
gym that had a seating capacity of 5200.
December 1 , 1923: Wilbur Cummins (Frankfort) scores 49 points @ Owensville to set the area’s single game
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scoring record.
State Finals Appearance: Crawfordsville, Frankfort
1 Team All-State: Karl “Knobby” Dickerson (Crawfordsville)
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1924: Frankfort finishes as State Runner-up, losing to Martinsville 36-30 in the state championship game.

State Finals Appearance: Frankfort, Otterbein
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1 Team All-State: Wilbur Cummins, Harold Holz, Marvin Good (Frankfort)
1925: Frankfort wins the State Championship, defeating Kokomo 34-20.
State Finals Appearance: Frankfort, West Point
1 Team All-State: Wilbur Cummins, Marvin Good, Doyal Plunkitt, Robert Spradling (Frankfort) &
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Billy Reeves (West Point)
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a. The West Point Cadets (Head Coach: Harold Horn) have the area’s 2 undefeated regular
season. They will win a Sectional & Regional title, before being defeated in the State Finals by

Kokomo.
b. Wilbur Cummins (Frankfort) finishes his career w/ 1140 points, topping the area record set by
Clement Crowe in 1922. Cummins will later play basketball at Purdue.
September 1926: The North Central Conference begins inter-scholastic athletic competition.
State Finals Appearance: Frankfort, Hillsboro
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