John L. Longfellow

Over 500 victories as a high school and college coach … coached at Leesburg and Nappanee … moving to Elkhart, his teams won 302 games and 24 tourney titles in 19 years … became coach of Indiana State … a season later, Sycamores won the ’50 NAIA championship … 6-year tenure there brought a 122-64 record with 12 championships … Indiana coach of the year in ’50 … co-coach of the U. S. team in the ’51 Pan American games … sent by U. S. State Department to Haiti to establish a basketball program there … honored by the National Basketball Hall of Fame.