Meet the Real Life Jimmy Chitwood of 'Hoosiers' (B/R Studios)
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- 'Hoosiers', the story of Indiana high school basketball in the 1950s, is widely praised as the greatest sports movie of all time. At the center of that classic is hero Jimmy Chitwood, who hits the game-winning shot at the end of that movie. In real life, his name is Bobby Plump, and this is his story.
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absolutely my all-time favorite sports movie, i have seen hoosiers more times than i can count and i still get chills at certain scenes
Among my top 10 movies;I'm 70 now. Own the DVD, have probably watched it 50-60 times. The story was not just David & Goliath but hometown America on display. Not quite 10 yrs after WW2, a Golden time for sure. Hackman SO good.
In the late 1970s, I worked at a clothing store in Indianapolis. I waited on this very nice man who bought a suit, and when I ran his credit card, I noticed the name. As I put the receipt in the bag and handed it to him, I said, "Nice shot." He just smiled and said, "It never ceases to amaze me how often clerks say that."
What a terrific story!
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When Jimmy says I'll make it I still get goosebumps
Me too!
The confidence he had, coach is writing up a play, Jimmy just says I'll make it, everyone believed him. Coach scraps play, everyone clear out for Jimmy.
I got to speak with Milan coach Marv Wood a few years before his death and I asked him about this game. He gave a little laugh, his eyes lit up and it was clear he loved that time in his life and that team. He said he knew Milan could win and told his team they had to slow it down and keep the score close. Such a nice man-RIP Coach
Like you, I was fortunate to meet Marv when he coached at St. Mary’s. He was one if the most positive people I’ve ever met. A wonderful man.
Meeting Coach Wood was the only time I was ever starstruck and he could not have been cooler.
“Don’t get caught watching the paint dry!”
"I love you guys"
“I’ll make it”
They went to class basketball. It’ll never be the same.
I grew up in Indiana during the one-class system. My high school even made it to the semistate finals, where we lost to a school that had 10 times our enrollment. I would have gladly traded a Class 3A championship for the romanticism of a single-class tournament.
@@mc76
I’m sure you would have. Milan would mean NOTHING. How many participation trophies do you own? It’s funny you’re proud of your schools semi state and yet you want something more just for not being “big” enough.
The best Sports movie.Cannot tune away from it.Great story and always great to watch.
"I'll make it." Jimmy Chitwood (Bobby Plump) had titanium stones.
This movie has extra, special meaning for those of us actually old enough to remember those times.
Back to back notable basketball champions. A year later, Oscar Robertson led Crispus Attucks to the title. They were the first all-black high school in the country to win a basketball state title. Milan actually beat them in route to their own title
Oscar hates this movie.
I'm so grateful for being a loyal and faithful Hoosier from Terre Haute, Indiana.
Home of the Gerstmeyer Black Cats. Arley and Harley
One of the best sports movies ever. I live in Jasper where they filmed part of it and we still have the gym standing better than ever.
The best sports movie IMHO...
number two behind the natural.
Friday Night Lights is right there with it.
Field of Dreams gotta be up there
For it's time yes, but it's been surpassed by many films. The acting is sub-par, the writing is sub-par, and the on court action is sub-par. It's an important movie because it fathered that great movie genre, but it is far from the best sports movie.
"North Dallas Forty" -- which exposes the seamy underside of professional football -- definitely deserves a mention (Though the N.F.L. might beg to differ.).
I am a Hoosier. Back in 1997-98 when the IHSAA ruined Indiana basketball by going to a class system, Marv Wood was living in far south Michigan just across the state line from us. A friend of mine contacted him and ask if we could come up and visit with him on suggestions on how to keep class basketball alive. Upon arrival, he had an older 8mm projector set up and his wife had popped popcorn. He sat down and started the projector with the '54 game. He would stop it every so often and tell of strategy they were working, or tell something that happened with the fans, or the other team. It was a very personal guided tour by the guy who lived it. Indiana basketball has never been the same since the one-class tournament died. Everyone wants a trophy. Boy, those were the days!!
The rules of basketball have changed so much from when I was growing up. And not for the better. The euro step, palming the ball, the three point shot, getting the ball at half court after a timeout, the grabbing and holding. Not how Naismith intended it to be.
Naismith retrieved the ball from a peach basket nailed to a pole. Progress, innit?
There are times when you sports stories like this you just have to appreciate them
I don’t know if it’ll make any change but I figured it’s time to start playing ball again. One other thing...If I play, coach stays. If he goes, I go.
When it comes to drama, it's hard to beat the Hickory Huskers--both the movie, and when the movie happened in real life.
Jimmy Chitwood should be in the hall of fame with coach Norman Dale
@Hi hell yeah and that's the bottom line, because Stone Cold said so.
For many years I played basketball every weekend with Maras Valainis (Jimmy Chitwood) he is actually a very good player and it was always a surreal experience to be guarding him and have him pull up and hit a jumper right in your face....just like a movie...
Maras Valainis was never good enough to play on a basketball team. Jimmy Chitwood is the greatest Indiana highschool basketball player of all times
jollyjoe sure u know him and Clint Eastwood is my uncle
He had a sweet shot!
Maras said on the Dan Patrick Radio show that when they filmed the last shot scene, he hit the shot the first time. The director told the people playing the fans to screen like he made it no matter whether he did or not. @@electroncapture
@@nala3038 I met him, myself. About 10 yrs. ago he (Maras Vilainis) came to Antelope Valley College in Lancaster Ca. to play in an intersquad game with AVC bb team. I believe he was an acquaintance of AVCs coach. He could definitely play and held his own vs these college players.
Indiana baby
Nice story and beautiful film. Thanks Indiana!!!
Go to North Carolina and say that...
Ray craft was my high school principle at Shelbyville high! His daughter sue graduated with our class in 1982! Good memories!
Plymouth Indiana 1982 also.. Scott Skiles Phil Wendel and Ron Sissel.. State Champs
My favorite sports movie of all time!
The Milan victory has been impossible to replicate for years because Indiana no longer has a single-division tournament. A few years after the change, a player asked for their opinion said that they would rather win a county title in the one-division format than a state championship in the multi-division format.
Ray craft was my high school principle at shelbyville high school! I graduated in 1982 with his daughter sue craft! Mr craft was an old school principle Who i admired and respected! It's To bad he's not their anymore! My mother graduated from knightstown high school in 1960 were the hickory gym scenes were shot! I have always loved this movie! You can still tour the gym in knightstown to this day!
Didnt teach you how to spell did they?
Ray Craft was my high school principal at Clinton Central High School. I graduated in 1971. Before becoming principal he was the varsity basketball coach and won a sectional title in I believe 1967. He is a well liked person to the people that know him.
Didn't know they grew em so small on the farm.
+Jiddy12345 thats about OLLIE..
+Stephen Fermoyle Don't make me run the picket fence at you.
Ollie was a college basketball player in real life. Best athlete on that Hoosier teM he had to dumb it down for the movie. Found ole Jimmy Chitwood in a pick up game at a YMCA. I love when he had them measure everything... Killed the nerves.
In real life, Ollie grew up in Lyons IN and was just a good player for L&M high school basketball team but never played college ball. His sister Libby was also in the movie as a cheerleaders And also cheered for L&M in real life. L&M HS, 150 students k-12, was ranked #1in the state in 1985 and featured in sports illustrated. We got beat in a close semi state game and was the closest thing indiana will ever have to another Milan.
I remember that L & M team. Jeff Oliphant and I think his name was Tony Patterson were huge stars on that team. Oliphant went on to play at IU but injuries kept him from serious playing time. The story goes that Jeff and Steve Alford used to have some epic games of horse after practice. @@swpdds
As a basketball player for 36 years, I'm very happy that you made that shot Bobby. I love that movie. I watch it to the end every time it's on. If you would have heeled it, no movie. Thanks for the drano! People love the movie not because they hate Goliath, they just love David more. Kudos to the Milan team. 7 years prior to my birth. Can't say that I don't LOVE it.
CZcams is showing Hoosiers for free one of my favorite movies ever
I'm from Illinois, but I can remember when the IHSBBA (actually just IHSA) was a week event that I think 3/4 of the state watched. Olders like me will remember little Cobden and Collinsville winning in the early '60s. After Chicago began dominating HS BB they went to the classes. Now hardly anyone watches them unless their school is in it.
There's a town up north towards WI that must have won one too since their water tank is painted like a basketball...Hebron?
@@etiennescarbinski7890yep the Hebron Green Giants. My mom and dad were there when Hebron won the championship. I was born 2 months later. Hebron only had 98 kids in the school. My high school took 3rd place that year with a 32-4 record. We lost to runner-up Quincy 54-51 in the semifinals.
Even years after the movie was made, my eyes Still water at the end. What Indiana basketball was, was the Best time to be a part of. I was raised on the Single Class system and it's not Near the same anymore. That opportunity to play against the Bigger High Schools and Win are long gone. My school, the Jasper Wildcats were a pretty good team in the middle 70's. They even won the championship in 1949. What Milan did though was just short of Miraculous. Now, there are 4 champions in our state. Just not the same. If I could change it back to the Single Class system,,, I would. The kids just don't know what it was like back then. They have No concept of the mysticism that surrounds the game.
Fucked your ol monkey all up they did ! 😁
Check out the 1964 Tipton Blue Devils. Small town small school #1 in state until injury took their best rebounder/second best scorer and they lost in the sectional. State final featured Lebanon against Lafayette Jefferson. Each had lost only one game - to Tipton.
I remember that. Jasper was the biggest Cinderella team of all time in Indiana.
They picked the right guy for the coach he's my hometown hero from here in Danville, Illinois - Gene Hackman. He was in so many great movies in so many great roles but this one might be the most important and prolific of his career. What a story that was told about this small town winning it all. Awesome!
Hackman over-acted in Hoosiers. He wasn't a good choice to play the coach.
My dad grew up in Ridge Farm - played basketball for the Ridge Farm High School Bulldogs. He graduated in 1947.
Danville is right across the Wabash from Indiana. Norm Held moved from Danville to be a successful coach in Anderson Indiana.
Fun Fact: The town in the movie Hoosiers, New Richmond is where my cousin lives
Nothing like holding the ball for 4 minutes for the final shot
Dean Smith loved to do that.
i live a block from his bar... "plumps last shot" in Indianapolis
Oh my gosh, what a great story! " Hoosiers" is my very favorite sports movie. It's great to see the real guys in this story, really cool.
Great, great story. This one. And the one from 1954.
Well said, Jim Porter
High School basketball in Indiana was something special for many years, unlike anything in any other state. Unfortunately, Indiana ruined it by set up multi-class basketball in 1998, it's just not the same.
Thank you for this. Very interesting
This is so cool, to see the real-life footage of this event! The movie is great and I watched it a lot as a kid but it doesn't really do the live event justice. My dad got to see this event in real life when he was a kid. What an amazing thing to see in real life!! Wow!!!
The 50th anniversary of the game it was aired on ESPN Classic. Growing up in Indiana, actually a smaller town outside of Muncie
Sports, primarily basketball, was the culture. As a kid you dreamed of playing a sectional game in the Muncie Fieldhouse, play Regionals at New Castle Fieldhouse, semi state at Hinkle and the Final 4 at Market Square Arena.
In 1990 the Final 4 was moved to the Hoosier Dome- the IHSAA banked on Damon Bailey and Bedford North Lawrence making it to the Final 4 for the 4th straight year, they did and over 40,000 came to watch them win the state championship vs Elkhart.
Sadly, basketball changed in Indiana. Class basketball was introduced in the 1998 season. While it created opportunities for more schools to have success, the tournament has lost a bit of its luster. Never will a team have a chance "to win one for all the small teams that never made it"
@@765southside6I remember that. I'm from Illinois and I was pulling for Damon Bailey and the Stars to win. I was surprised as heck Sunday morning when the St Louis Post Dispatch had the story and I saw 40,000 people had attended.
Yes, it was the players who actually played the game and they accomplished more than any of them would have ever dreamed, but it was the coach, Norman Dale, who got those individual players to play as a unified TEAM. That was the key to their success and the key to them winning the state championship. It was the TEAM, players AND coaches, who won the trophy
@Doug Nading As the old saying goes "You can do and accimplish more as a team than you can ever do alone." Thanks for being a coach and teaching the lessons of teamwork.
Bobby still had great form with that shot at the end of this video...Sweet!
What a fantastic video doc
nice move - simple, decisive. pretty nice jumper for the 50s.
Good job Bobby!
Well done mate!!!!
terrific ! I love that last shot that he took many years later !
I love this tale!
This movie changed my life!
Jon Dowling how so?
Kyle Mc what do you mean how so? It’s self explanatory!
Jon Dowling if it was I wouldn’t have asked
Kyle Mc not sure why I have to explain it. The movie changed a lot of people’s lives. Sorry you can’t see that.
Jon Dowling You don’t have to explain anything, you said it and I asked how. Not everything is a trick question fella.
There was no better actor than Gene Hackman for the role of the coach.
BEST STORY EVER LOVE THIS GUY BEST MOVIE EVER
Sadly in 1997 they ruined Hoosier Hysteria forever by going to a class system so this kind of Hoosiers story is no longer possible...but it is in Kentucky!
1982 Plymouth Indiana Scott Skiles Phil Wendel Ron Sissel
I played in that gym 30 times
Me to. Played against gordan hayward there
@Ryan Harrington
Can't we leave Shelvin * out of this * ? -- Hasn't he been through ENOUGH???!!!*
* * Just kidding. * (I don't even know who Shelvin Mack is.).
I can be very silly (Especially when I'm awake**.).
** I'm actually a very serious sleeper.
My father loved your real story. I remember him telling me about it. I was only 3 yrs old at the time.
So great
Good job Bobby Plump
I love this movie, they captured the essence of the time. I lived during the 50's and this took me back.❤❤❤
"NO SCHOOL....THIS SMALL....."
This was the coolest film ever ever!
Mr. Raycraft was my principal at Shelbyville high school great man great educator
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Great story! Great movie!
Such a great story!
Miracles do happen !
Great movie. Makes most of basketball lovers dream to play in the NBA.
That whole region is basketball crazy, or it used to be when I was at SIU in Carbondale Illinois Larry Bird from Indiana State came over to play against our college and it was headline news.
kissmyaass1 Well I’m from Oklahoma where people are baseball and football crazy and I saw the same things going on with younger kids but it was basketball and baseball because SIU went to the playoffs in college in baseball and we were great. I wasn’t good enough to make the team and I was a good player, but not with them. lol
Three of the 10 winningest high school basketball teams in the country are within just miles of Carbondale and SIU. Centralia, Pinckneyville, and Mt Vernon. All of these schools have won over 2000 games and multiple state championships.
@@nelsonmcatee3721 Yes I know. I had trouble hitting a curve, but if I got a fast ball I could send it into orbit. And did.
What about Ollie?
Just curious to ask? But were there more than eight players on the actual team? I've always loved the movie, and story of that event. My father GRHS, grew up in small town Illinois, near the Wabash river, across from Indiana. Hoosiers was a great personal favorite movie and story of his. Thanks.🤗✌️🤗✌️🤗✌️🇺🇸🇺🇸💯
be cool to watch a authentic indiana high school basketball game now
I've been to one. A shootout in Roberts Memorial Stadium in Evansville in December 1997.
I luv it!!!
A classic slice of American folklore and legend.
These guys were ballers in every since of the word. It truly was David vs. Goliath.
So Chitwood's real name was Plump? Wow! Hollywood's Creative License strikes again. LOL.
Long live Milan, IN. Long live Indiana basketball! And I'm from Kentucky, just so you know, and that last part of 'Long live' was very difficult for me to say.
Kentucky is round ball Central come the fall of the year. It's the home of one of the greatest college basketball coaches who ever lived in Adolf Rupp. Rupp built men and then he made those men legends. The rest is history.
And the only state left that hasn't gone to a class system.
It was Dentyne.
It was primo Colombian.
Actually, “he was Dyntyne” great line!
If only the Hoosier state could become the basketball state again. Urban east and west coast cities took it.
Great story turned into a great movie
Great movie.great story.now look up the Waterloo wonders.back to back Ohio state champs.another small school.
The Waterloo Wonders ,Little Generals, plated in a class system in Ohio so it's not the same. But they were probably the best team in the state and the nation in 1935. They posted a record of 63-3!
We lived near Muncie,Ind. but my father was really pulling for Milan. We hated the bearcats.
I love the movie ♥
And you will never see it happen again, since Indiana ,for some insane reason, switched to "class" basketball and all the limitations that brings, destroying any chances of another Milan.
Hari Seldon almost every state in the country has adopted that style of classifications- it makes it so small schools have a chance to compete with each other instead of being blown out by much bigger schools
I agree with you Mr. Seldon. If the IHSAA let the people of Indiana vote on it, Class basketball would've been defeated hands down. Instead, they let Each Athletic Director of each High School vote and THAT'S how this tragedy came to be. When a smaller school wins the championship in their class, that's all they have won. They did not win the State title overall. They are Not true State champions over all the schools. What those Athletic directors did was Rob the young adults that play this game, of their Pride and dedication of doing something very extraordinary. No no more though. When you win it now,,it is Just in your Class,,,Not the whole Kit and Kabootle.
I coach high school basketball in the place that consistently turns out the best athletes in *all sports* & making things "class" or "divisions" out here made perfectly good sense... We need a balanced field of play and in the modern game with a shot clock, 3 point line, non physical play... WE WILL NEVER see that happen again.
Basketball is the fabric that binds the Hoosier state together. Indiana basketball will live on forever.
Connor Romer It’s called Communism
I'LL MAKE IT!!!
The little one red light town, in Florida that I grew up in was about the size of Hickory as depicted in movie. But they went to the state finals many consecutive times, and won in 1963. I was 8 years old then, and I remember that night, the town was deserted, just about everyone was gone to the game.
On that night, a black man came walking up and knocked on our door. He reported that he saw a light flashing in the sky, and then heard a crashing sound in the woods. I went with my dad, and this man to the spot where he reported the noise, and we discovered a single engine plane had crashed killing both occupants. I remember someone shining a flash light in the wreckage, and seeing the decapitated body of the man. I could not sleep alone for about a week. Scared the crap our of me.
Oh wow what a horrible story.
I am sorry.
The USA certainly peaked before the 60s.
Hoosiers is a great movie, however, one can never, ever beat the " real deal. " Like other Hoosiers I watch the movie " Hoosiers " especially around Tourney Time but I personally prefer watching the actual Milan - Muncie Central game on youtube. By the way my High School was a victim of the consolidation of 1964.
I have been watching basketball all my life. Played a bunch as well. The one thing that stands out to me about basketball from the 1970's when I started playing until today is the way the players act. Back then a guy made a good shot or a great move he might smile some or point to a teammate and say good pass but that was about it. Now days ? they puff out their chest, scream and holler, point at the fans and scream and holler or otherwise just try and be seen. It's all about ego and showboating. Make no mistake they are some incredible players but all in all I just wish it would go back to if you made a shot turn around and go play defense without bringing attention to yourself. And all the politics? complete turn off for me. just shut up and play ball. no one cares what you think or who you voted for. watch West or, Dr.J, Cowens, Hondo, Baylor, Bird , McHale, Chirf Stockton , Ma;on, Wilt or the Celtics. they just played ball. they didn't celebrate after a dunk..
Well put, agree!
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Thank you for this clip. I love the movie but I always assumed it was based on BS. How incredible. ❤
Next to " Rudy " Hoosiers was the Greatest Sports Movie ever made IMHO,
Both had a Player basically Nobody had ever Heard of and yet on the Final Play of their respected Game Made History and are Remembered to this Day.
While it is True Notre Dame is Much more well known than Milan Highschool In the History of Notre Dame Football until that game NO PLAYER Had ever been carried off the Field By His teammates in Triumph.
And To this Day Nobody has been carried off since.
Rudy was nowhere near as good.
32-30 holy crap how long were they holding the ball before shooting
jimmy chitwood is the greatest Indiana highschool basketball player of all times and should be in the hall of fAME
escobar mohammed Jimmy Chitwood is just a fictional name of a player, not a real name!!! Bobby Plump was the person that made the winning shot and the character of Jimmy Chitwood was modeled after him!!!
jimmy chitwood is a real person just like rocky balboa is in the 3 boxing hall of fames
escobar mohammed The name may be memorialized but it is not a real person!!! Try too keep up please!!!
coach norman dale and jimmy chitwood are Indiana legends. they still hold all the records
escobar mohammed The name “ Jimmy Chitwood “ is just a name that was used in the book and the movie called “ Hoosiers!!!” A fake name, not a real name!!! Not a real person!!! You apparently don’t have the ability or the reasoning power too understand the difference between a real person, like Bobby Plump who the character was based on, and a made up fictional name!!!
The 40 000 people lining the road should have been in the movie
What a beautiful story. Love the movie.
Cool story
But did Milan run the Picket Fence?? :)
In 49 states it's just basketball...but this is INDIANA.
Go to North Carolina and say that....
James Wise I lived in Indiana for awhile, it’s much more serious there. We had school teams starting in the 4th grade!!!
Indiana hasn't been relevant since that movie was released.
it more so is a Midwest thing, because Illinois is full of David and goliath stories as well back in those days....it was just small farm towns meeting Chicago schools...i grew up rural illinois, and watched Hoosiers more times than I can count, and people in Illinois resonate well with it. when I was in high school I got to be apart of 3 basketball state tournaments and 2 were titles...and the atmosphere was centered around the story of a small northern school winning the championship game back in the 50s or so...maybe it was the first televised in the state as well...anyway...town was called Hebron or something...they compared them to the real life Hoosiers as well, just in a sense that everyone was playing basketball in the Midwest...indiana certainly gets th e noterioty but nonetheless it was just as big in other states like Illinois.
Matt jarrels let me know when there’s actually a player from Kensucky on the wildcats. You guys consistently get killed by our All stars #sitdown
Gym reminds me somewhat of Father Judge's gym.
I've been to that gym. Before covid, they would let you shoot a few hoops on the court. Located in Knightstown Indiana
Father Judge in Philadelphia?
Same thing happened in West Virginia 1945 normantown West Virginia about the same population defeated Bluefield
West Virginia used to be really good too. Jerry West, Hot Rod Hundley
10 footer in real life - 35 feet in the movie lol
When ESPN Classic aired the game on its 50th Anniversary, the radio play by play accompanied it. I will say it was gregarious. While watching the game and the commentators calling out 25 and 30 foot shots that you can easily see that are inside of 19-15 feet. A young Tom Carnegie must have had a hell of an angle courtside at Hinkle to make those claims😂😂
No, Jimmy Chitwood is the real fake Bobby Plump! LOL.
I am from southern Indiana and didn't play basketball in high school imagining having a Jimmy Chitwood situation, but nobody cared I didn't plat
32-30 was the final score?? If that's true, talk about a slow game.
Thomas Whitmore No 3-point line back then
Thomas Whitmore this is why there is a shot clock now.
Put Hoosiers on Netflix kids Starz on tv