On Wednesday evening, Pacers Sports & Entertainment honored the legendary Crispus Attucks teams as a Hickory night honoree.
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Attucks captured the state championship in 1955, '56, and '59. The 1955 team is of high historical importance, since it was the first all-black school to win the Indiana high school basketball championship. In fact, it is believed that Attucks may have been the first all-black high school to win an open championship in the country. The team is of course widely known for the Hall-of-Fame career by Oscar Roberton that followed the state championships, but the group was far more than just one player. There was John Gipson, Stanford Patton, Sam Milton, Bill Hampton, Hallie Bryant, Willie Gardner and their driven coach, Ray Crowe (whose brother George Daniel Crowe was a Hickory Honoree earlier this season).