titles for our town
how tiny pennysylvania communities produced
basketball dynasties and shaped basketball during the golden age
By Bradley A. Huebner
about the author
Bradley A. Huebner
Bradley A. Huebner has been a professional sportswriter and winning basketball coach for three decades in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina, and Maryland. He taught secondary English, writing, and media by day and freelanced at night for sports sections throughout the east—the Charlotte Observer, The State in South Carolina, and the Morning Call (Pa.). Huebner also served as a staff sportswriter in Maryland and an assistant sports editor of the Savannah (Ga.) Morning News. His magazine feature of Charlotte Hornets guard David Wesley earned the Charlotte Magazine cover…
about the book
titles for our town
Titles for our Town began as a book about tiny Fountain Hill High, a small public school near Bethlehem, Pa., that went to three-straight state finals, winning two. No other Lehigh Valley public school boys team has matched that in three-quarters of a century. As I researched further, I discovered that Fountain Hill lost to similar small-school basketball dynasty Wampum High in the 1955 state final. I expanded the book to include the Indians, another steel-town power. Wampum was led by coach’s son Don Hennon and the talented Allen brothers. Coach L. Butler Hennon used training techniques that would be replicated as far away as Russia.
As I researched further, I discovered that rural Kutztown High won three state titles in Class B in the 1950s behind an authoritarian coach from western Pennsylvania.
News
news & Articles
EARLY CELEBRATION TOSSING HERSHEY KISSES ALMOST COSTS A-H STATE FINAL
Posted on March 31, 2018 by bradleyahuebner Left: The scramble for the final rebound plays out as a foul is called with one second remaining. Below, game managers sweep up the Hershey Kisses
Tiny town of Williamsburg carries hoop dreams of Class A powers
By BRADLEY A. HUEBNER Drive around the clean and tidy town of Williamsburg in central Pennsylvania, and you’ll see a plethora of blue lawn signs encouraging the girls basketball team,
Len Chappell: From a PA Coal Town to Madison Square Garden
Len Chappell in his Portage uniform and Chuck Taylor sneakers. Photo courtesy of Joanne Chappell. By BRADLEY A. HUEBNER Lenny Chappell and Portage. The names are historically linked, intertwined like
