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Did You
Know?
- Hebron had only 98 students, and only 42 boys, at the time it won the state
championship. Its opponent in the title game, Quincy, had an enrollment of 1,035 (in only
three grades).
- Hebron High School consolidated with Alden High School in 1948, so the school's official
name was Alden-Hebron when it won the championship. Hardly anyone outside of McHenry
County knew or used the school's real name.
- Bill Schulz, the 6-10½ junior center who lived on a dairy farm near Alden, had never
seen a basketball game until he entered Alden-Hebron as an eighth-grader.
- Hebron was rated No. 1 in the AP or UP poll in 9 of the 13 weeks that polls were taken
during the 1951-52 season.
- The championship game with Quincy was the first ever to go to overtime. It was
also the first overtime varsity game that Russ Ahearn had ever coached and that the Hebron
players had ever played.
- The title game was NOT the first state tournament game ever to be televised. The
semifinal games played that afternoon were also televised.
- All five of Hebron's starters went to major colleges on scholarships.
- Many of Hebron's players honed their basketball skills in a grade-school coal room and
in a hayloft set up with hoops at each end.
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