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Pennsylvania/Maryland 
 elite Basketball Shootout results
Oct 11, 2009, found
HERE

 

Tyler Zimmerman, Scot Key (MD Bianca Parker, Decastle (DE)

     we do two a year!            
participants from nine states
 attended the Oct 11 Fall Shootout!!
Next  shootout in the spring, HERE

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Targeting Basketball in Your Area of Pennsylvania 
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 2009  State Championships

-other stories on pahoops found HERE

-July 2009, Pennsylvania/Maryland Summer Basketball Camp Results,  HERE

What is a Shootout HERE 

High School Basketball Starts Later Every Year

At one time, Pennsylvania high school basketball started practice on November 1, then after a week of practice scrimmages were held with other schools and after two weeks or so the regular season started. But when high school football in the state implemented playoffs, the starting date for basketball was pushed back.  This year, practice starts on November 27.  At one time, Thanksgiving Basketball Tournaments were big, now they can't exist.  The first regular playing date this season is December 11, whereas the 1917-1918 Hazleton team was playing their fourth game of the season on December 12.  As a senior in high school in 1955, the traditional opener for many high school teams was the Alumni.  We looked forward to lining up and playing against the heroes we had seen play when we were growing up. Back in those days, high school teams could play non-scholastic teams such as the Alumni as regular season games.  When coaching at Bishop Guilfoyle High School in Altoona for the 1966-67 season, we had two college freshmen teams on the schedule, St. Francis College and St. Vincent's College.  We lost to St. Francis, but we beat St. Vincent's.  In fact for the next season, we added the Naval Academy Freshmen team to our schedule.  But it was that year, 1967 that the PIAA changed the rules and restricted high school teams from playing such opponents and the game with the Naval Academy was never played.  Also at one time, teams could play more games than they do now.  With the length of the football season, most high school teams today have to play three games in a week to get in a schedule of 22 regular season games.  That means less practice time, whereas football still has week of practice before each game.
When  coaching Susquehanna Twp. High School in 1979-80, we played 38 games, finishing 35-3.  The most wins we can find when researching the records for a State Championship team is the 1977 Elk Lake team that finished 36-0.  Our feeling is that the current  football season is too long and at least a week should be cut from the schedule.  Many times, the final weeks of football playoffs are played in snow and cold weather.  Plus, at many schools, kids are forced to choose between one sport or the other since the seasons overlap.  As Grantland Rice probably said  "December was never designed by nature to be football season!" (Bill Gaffey, pahoops editor)

WINTER SPORTS: First Inter-School Practice  -

November 27, 2009

 
WINTER SPORTS: First Regular Season Contest Date -
December 11, 2009


Partnership with Colleges and Universities
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We now have exactly 101 Colleges and Universities  registered! We welcome school #101 which has just joined: the Dickinson College men's program and Assistant coach, Mark Seidenburg who attended our Oct 11 Shootout. 


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    Class 2010     
HERE      Class 2012     HERE     
      
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    Class 2014 
       HERE     Class 2015      HERE 
    Class 2016    
HERE       Class 2017    HERE


 Video coverage of players and their games from the Shootout are now being completed and posted by  Human Highlight Productions   HERE

Pre-Shootout photos and info HERE

Previous shootout results HERE  


All the April 5th  shootout results can be found  HERE


This website was designed by and is maintained by Bill Gaffey
Harrisburg 17112
email   pahoops@verizon.net

 

2009 senior all-star games HERE

-10/6/09, Phoenixville Basketball Coaches fired for recruiting violations,  story HERE
(Credit Dave Burman)

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 The 1917-1918 NE Pennsylvania Champions
Hazelton to Illinois to California

We received an inquiry from Diana Vickery from Cicero Illinois who found this team picture an an antique store in Illinois.  The photo had the inscription "HHS NE Pennsylvania Champions, 1917-18."  The photo also had the names of the coach and players on the back.  We verified that it was Hazleton High School after examining copies of the Hazleton Plains Speaker  for November and December of 1917  that we found at the State Library in Harrisburg
After we informed Diana, she found the coach's son living in California and is sending him the old photo which had lost its home. 
More story and box scores posted HERE


This will be our next quest:

Like to try this one?

I have a gold basketball medal that belonged to my father, Walker Nevin Brenner; it is inscribed "YHS 1911-12 State Champions".

   The YHS is for York (PA) High School, now William Penn. Familly lore is that he was the captain. 

Obviously that year is before PIAA records. My guess is that it was an "unofficial state championship"--perhaps just a claim--or maybe a newspaper or two proclaimed the team the champions.

 

Do you have any information.

 Thank you.

 

Morgan G. Brenner


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