John Wooden: The Indiana Story
2010 | 30 min | Cast | Credits
Cast:
John Wooden
Larry Bird
Bobby Leonard
Steve Alford
Bobby Plump
Many more
Credits:
Producer, Director, Writer, Narrator: Ted Green
Editor: Sam Riche
Research: Ted Green
Produced by The Indianapolis Star
Finally, the John Wooden only Indiana knew. Through hundreds of photos, archival video and interviews with Larry Bird, Bobby Leonard, Steve Alford, Bobby Plump and other Hoosier luminaries, “John Wooden: The Indiana Story” captures the coach’s formative years in Centerton and Martinsville, and his marriage to his high school sweetheart in Indianapolis. It details his heroics at Purdue, and his little-known years as a pro basketball star. It shows how he enlisted in the World War II effort, and — but for a last-minute twist of fate — would have been aboard an aircraft carrier that met with disaster. And it reveals how Wooden helped break a national color barrier while at Indiana State. John Wooden is an American legend, voted by The Sporting News as the greatest coach of all-time in any sport. This is his Indiana story.
AWARDS
Won a regional Emmy for Research.