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Brooksie covered state tournament in 1945
The state high school boys basketball tournament is celebrating 100 years this week, so I thought I would take a look at a couple of moments from my years of covering the high school finals.
As I was telling our esteemed editor, Jim Ecker, I covered my first state tournament in 1945 at Drake's original fieldhouse in Des Moines when Ames defeated Muscatine, 35-33. I was just out of high school at the time.
Cedar Rapids Franklin played Waverly for the state title in 1944 at the old fieldhouse in Iowa City. Franklin was coached by Orville Rust, a legendary figure from the old school who also was head football coach and head track coach.
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