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Browning HS Building Sideview – Gymnasium |
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Courtesy of Dennis Reiley – 2007 |
Athletics
We are certain the Browning boys competed in basketball. It s probable that baseball and track were offered as well. School team records and coach’s names are among the items we are seeking at this time.
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Browning High School Gymnasium – 2008 |
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Submitted by Roberta VanBriesen |
Boys Basketball
According to the IHSA website (www.ihsa.org) the Browning High School boys basketball program won two District titles during their existence. The titles came in the mid-1940s. Unfortunately the team records and the coach’s names of these teams are not available at this time. Scores involving Browning High School in the IHSA State Tournament were located on a website titled “Illinois Postseason Basketball Scores.” These scores are listed below as well.
1933-34 Beardstown District Tournament Coach’s name & record needed
1st Rd Beat Littleton 23-18
2nd Rd lost to Rushville 29-17
Beardstown beat Hersman in title game
1934-35 Rushville District Tournament Coach’s name & record needed
1st Rd lost to Industry 27-26
Rushville beat Beardstown in title game
1935-36 Browning District Runner-Up Coach’s name & record needed
1st Rd Beat Brooklyn 43-21
Beat Hersman or Chandlerville in semi-final
TItle Game lost to Chambersburg 59-19
1936-37 Postseason scores, record, and coach’s name needed.
1937-38 Postseason scores, record, and coach’s name needed.
1938-39 Postseason scores, record, and coach’s name needed.
1939-40 Postseason scores, record, and coach’s name needed.
1940-41 Postseason scores, record, and coach’s name needed.
1941-42 Littleton District Runner-Up Coach’s name & record needed
Early Rd Scores Needed.
Title Game lost to Hersman 39-24
District Runner-Up advanced to Regional
Beardstown Regional Tournament
1st Rd lost to Mt. Sterling 63-26
Beardstown beat Rushville in title game
1942-43 Postseason scores, record, and coach’s name needed.
1943-44 Littleton District Champions Coach’s name & record needed
Early Rd Scores Needed
Title Game Beat Camden 51-17
Beardstown Regional Qualifier
1st Rd lost to Chandlerville 61-38
Mt. Sterling beat Rushville in title game.
1944-45 Browning District Tourney Coach’s name & record needed
Browning scores unavailable
Ipava beat Chandlerville in title game
1945-46 Browning District Tourney Coach’s name & record needed
Browning scores unavailable
Ipava beat Table Grove in title game
1946-47 Littleton District Champions Coach’s name & record needed
Semi-Final Beat Littleton 55-28
Title Game Beat Table Grove 36-33
Rushville Regional Tourney
**1st Rd lost to Industry 61-28
Beardstown beat Mt. Sterling in title game
**Final basketball game for Browning High School, merged with Rushville in the summer of 1947.
Browning Grade School 7th Grade Boys Place 2nd in 1993 State Tournament!
**From Brett Burton:
“In 1993, the Browning Bobcats 7th grade boys basketball team finished 2nd in the 1A state basketball tournament (http://www.iesa.org/activities/bbk/index.asp). To this day, the 1993 Browning Grade School team has the smallest total enrollment (27) of any team to ever play for a state title in Illinois (no link for this, but a primary source exists in the form of a 1993 issue of the Peoria Journal Star). The school shut down for good in 1994 due to a lack of enrollment and funding. Students from Browning today attend school in nearby Rushville.”
Browning Grade School 7th Basketball Scores in State Tournament – 1993 (7th Grade ‘A’)
Sweet 16: Browning 48, Roanoke-Benson 44
Elite 8: Browning 48, Winchester 34
Final 4: Browning 48, Donovan 36
State Title Game: Browning 29, Hartsburg-Emden 52
Memories of Browning School
From alumnus Martha Layne:
“I was a Browning Bobcat from Kindergarten-Eighth grade (1971-79). There was no High School at that time. It was an awesome school!!
I can still smell the new wax on the hard wood floors on the first day of school. The school had 6 levels. The kindergarten room was to the side and a level lower than the gym and then first and second grade rooms (one for each grade) was the next level up from the gym. A wide flight of stairs up from there was third and fourth grade rooms (again, one each). A tall flight of steps (I used to know the number of stairs) on either side of that level went to the top level (one to go up and one to
go down) which was seventh and eighth grade (of course one room for each grade). Like I have said, there were no high schoolers going there when I went there…I remeber them catching the bus in front of the building to go to Rushville. The bell was in the tower above this level and if you were in the eighth grade and you asked and had been good, you got to pull the big rope and ring the bell after school. The cafeteria was in the basement next to the boiler room…I had to go there twice…it was known as the paddling room…
It was a wonderful country school. It had the best teeter totters in the world and the tallest slide I’d ever seen. The younger chilren played in the front of the building and the older ones had a choice of the front or the back. I loved it and have enjoyed my trip down memory lane”
Seeking More Information
More information is being sought about Browning High School; use the Guest Commentary Form to sumbit. Corrections are welcome as well. If you have more Information about BHS, including photos of the school, nickname, other athletes and other great teams and high school memories you would like to share please write to us at ihsgdwebsite@comcast.net or you may also write us via USPS at:
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