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The 1937 Melrose High School (Iowa) Shamrocks were the Iowa state high school basketball champions. With an enrollment of only 66, the Melrose Shamrocks〔 Melrose did not originally have a nickname, but as the 1937 season went on the popular nickname "Shamrocks" stuck.〕 were the smallest school ever to win a single-class state basketball title in Iowa. The team finished their season 33–0, the first undefeated boys basketball team in Iowa history. In 2012, the Des Moines Register recognized the Shamrocks as one of the ten best State tournament teams in Iowa history. In May 2012, the Iowa House of Representatives officially congratulated the 1937 Melrose Shamrocks basketball team on the 75th anniversary of their championship.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=House Resolution 148 )〕 ==Background== In 1937, the Iowa High School Athletic Association held a single tournament to determine the boys' basketball championship.〔 Eight larger schools (Class A schools) and eight small schools (Class B schools) were invited to the tournament. Although the large Class A schools were favored, several small schools won the state championship during this era, including Dunkerton in 1933, Melrose in 1937, and Diagonal in 1938.〔”Remember the Giant Killers?” 2011 State Basketball Tournament Souvenir Program p.60 Iowa High School Athletic Association March 2011〕 Melrose High School did not have a gym for the 1937 team to use or for its home games. Instead, they used the floor of the town opera house.〔 The court measured 30 feet (9.14 meters) in width by 40 to 45 feet (12.19 to 13.72 meters) in length. One corner of the playing floor featured a pot-belly wood stove, which heated the building. The circles around the foul lines intersected the circle at center court. The Melrose opera house floor was less than 30 percent the size of the Drake University Fieldhouse floor, where the State tournament was played. That floor measured 50 feet (15.24 meters) by 94 feet (28.65 meters). During the 1937 season, the teams had a center jump ball after each score.〔.〕 This allowed teams, like Melrose, with a tall center to control the tempo of a game. It would also allow a team that was behind to more easily rally as the players could regain possession of the ball after each basket. The Iowa High School Athletic Association, like other associations, changed this rule after the 1937 season to its current rule. The Melrose coach was Adolph "Ad" Hlubek, the school superintendent. He told people that he learned most of what he knew about coaching basketball from a 10 cent paperback book.〔.〕 He also said that he learned the sliding zone defense they used from a friend in Kansas. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1937 Melrose High School (Iowa) Shamrocks」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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