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We were just part of the community. The only way I knew we were special was when the motorcycle policeman revved up his motorcycle and took us through all those red lights. The championship team on which the Hoosiers true story is based is actually the Milan High School Indians. There is no town of Hickory in Indiana. Was the Coach really a middle-aged man?

Screenwriter Angelo Pizzo said the following about keeping the Coach in the movie the same age as his real life counterpart, "I wrote it that way and the movie didn't work. If he had failed, he still had the rest of his life. I went back and made the character older, a guy with a last chance. At Butler, Marvin played on two Hoosier Classic championship teams and when Butler defeated both Indiana and Purdue in the same tournament.

Was the Coach really hired to replace a former Coach who had died?

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In the film, Coach Norman Dale is hired to replace a well-liked Coach who dies. The team's star player, Jimmy Chitwood, refuses to play for part of the season because he's so upset. In real life, Coach Marvin Wood was hired the previous season to replace Coach Herman "Snort" Grinstead, who was fired for ordering new uniforms against the superintendent's orders.

As stated above, it was Coach Wood's second season with the Milan Indians. He actually took them to the semi-finals the previous year.