Crawfordsville Basketball--50 Years Ago

     

     As we gear up for this year’s March Madness, let’s go back and remember a team from our past. The 1968 Athenian basketball team, coached by Richard Haslam and Charles Fiedler, was quite successful. They won 15 games, beating such teams as Brownsburg, Noblesville, Central Catholic,  and Ben Davis. They triumphantly brought home the 1968 Sectional and Sagamore Conference trophies. The five hard-fighting seniors on this year’s team were Captain Larry Grimes, Kelly Cochrane, Bob Hodges, Dave Kitts, and Wayne Steele.  

Lest We Forget.....

    Sadly, several of our county’s World War I soldiers died of disease, many even before they left training camp.  Private Harley Edgar Jones of New Ross joined the service in September of 1917, and died at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, of pneumonia in February of 1918. May he never be forgotten. This obituary is from the February 8, 1918, issue of the Crawfordsville Weekly Journal.