29th Annual
Ripley County Basketball Tournament

Champions - Milan Indians
Coach - Marvin Wood

January 15, 16, 17, 1953
Tyson Auditorium
Versailles, Indiana
Teams in tournament: 8

 to the 1954 Tournament

Milan 59 Sunman 30
Napoleon 39 Holton 34
Versailles 45 Osgood 44
Cross Plains 38 New Marion 30
Milan 51 Napoleon 33
Versailles 49 Cross Plains 30
Milan 68 Versailles 45

Officials: Roland Baker and George Terrell of Bedford

Several fans throughout the county were very critical of the Osgood stalling tactics in the Versailles ball game. It is smart basketball when it works and lousy when it back fires. We have watched many stalls in basketball games throughout the state of Indiana and we believe they will lose more ball games than they will win. This is just our opinion. We watched New Albany lose a State Tourney trying to work a stall. Three minutes is a long time to stand in a basketball game.

- from News Under the Net, Versailles Republican, Thursday, January 22, 1953, p. 8

All county team

Ronnie Truitt, Milan
Gene White, Milan
Bobby Plump, Milan
Jim Laswell, Osgood
Jim Wendelman, Milan
Elmer Pollard, Versailles
Ivan Kelley, Napoleon
Bobby Engel, Milan

Honorable Mention

Dennis Holcomb, Holton
Don Rose, Napoleon
John Rolf, Osgood
Jim Gabbard, Versailles
George Shelton, Versailles

Total points scored in tournament: 595
Total points scored in all tournaments: 11,969

Most points scored by one team in a game: 68 by Milan vs. Versailles, championship game
Most points scored by two teams: 113 Milan vs. Versailles, championship game

basketball Cumulative Tournament records
Milan 39 - 23 .629
Osgood 36 - 24 .600
Holton 29 - 25 .537
Versailles 29 - 25 .537
Sunman 26 - 27 .491
Napoleon 25 - 26 .490
New Marion 8 - 26 .235
Cross Plains 3 - 22 .120
Nonparticipating schools
Batesville 10 - 5 .667
Moores Hill 2 - 4 .333

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