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1950-51 Men's Basketball Team
Team Award
From 1947 to 1955, the Millikin Men’s Basketball Team won six conference championships but the 1950-51 team remains the most notable and memorable. The team finished second in the nation at the National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball (NAIB, now NAIA) national tournament in Kansas City in 1951. Star player and Captain Scott Steagall ’51 especially received national attention for his prowess on the court, including scoring 888 points over the course of the season. Steagall and four other starters for the team – Bob Kowa ’53, John Luttrell ’53, Alex Sarran ’51 and Gerald “Jeep” Althoff ’52 – were said to have “won the crowd in Kansas City but lost the game, 69-61.” More than 4,000 fans cheered on the team and its coaches, Ralph Allan and Jack Allen, when they returned to Decatur, and H. Ray Myers ’26, head of the Millikin Alumni Foundation, established a scholarship named for seniors, Steagall and Sarran. Other team members included Harry Dubinick ’53, George Fyke ‘51, Richard Lewis ’52, Manager Douglas Lukey ’53, Arthur Murray ’52, Charles Mueller ’54, Kermit Radloff ’52 and Leo Rozycke ’54. The team was inducted into the Illinois Basketball Hall of Fame in 1986.
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