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1940-41 Centralia High School Basketball
Team
The Centralia Sports Hall of Fame
1982 Team Award Winner
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Top Row: Harold Wesner,
Bill Castleman, Dwight
Eddleman, Jack Klosterman, Bob Michael;
Bottom Row: Farrel Robinson, John Weber, Ray Owensby,
Bill
Davies, Fred Pearson;
Center: top left - Harry Lutz: bottom left - Blair
Brazel; top right - Harry Fortney; bottom right - James
Tucker;
Center insert: Coach A. L. Trout
Not pictured: Paul Lockwood, Farrell Benefiel, Virgil
Krutsinger.
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Known as the Wonder Five, the
1940-41 Centralia High School Basketball
Team won 42 straight games; averaged 50
points per game, and 28 points per game more
than their opponents; finished third in
state. This was the best team NEVER
to win a state title, final record 44-2.
This team was a charter inductee into the
Illinois Basketball Coaches Association Hall
of Fame in 1973.
COACH: A.L. Trout
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- all rights reserved
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