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GHS Hall of Fame: Remembering the Legendary '63 Basketball Team
Did you ever see the movie, "Hoosiers"? You can meet Geneva's version at the Athletic Hall of Fame induction Saturday. The game tips off at 6 p.m. and the presentation promises to be one of the most unique Hall of Fame events ever.
Arguably the greatest basketball team in the history of Geneva High School will be honored Saturday, during a unique halftime show that promises to tug at the heartstrings of any Geneva sports fan. The 1962-63 Vikings basketball team will, in its entirety, be inducted into the Hall of Fame during the 50th-anniversary year of its remarkable achievement of reaching the Elite Eight and competing in the very first IHSA Basketball Finals Weekend to be held in the then-brand-new, 16,000-capacity Assembly Hall on the University of Illinois campus in Champaign. What made Geneva’s feat even more notable was the fact that, with an enrollment at the time of fewer than 500 students, it was playing against much- larger competition in what was, until …
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Kurt Wehrmeister
8:41 am on Monday, February 4, 2013
Sorry, Beth. We had Rick Tornberg, Mike McCleary, and fellow reserve (that year a junior) Chuck Radovich with us, along with sixth-man and early-season starter Bob Liden (remember him from early-'80s municipal-bond-issue meetings at City Hall? He was working for Ziegler Securities) -- and, for the first time in my recollection, the entire starting five back together: guards Burgess and Krell, … more ›