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Former Hanover College Men's Basketball Coach John Collier Passes At 92

Coach Collier Hall of Fame Photo

Madison & Southwestern split Turkey Shootout games

THANKSGIVING EVE TURKEY SHOOTOUT:

GIRLS:

Girls Box Score: Open file

Madison picked up their sixth Victory Bell Championship with a 63-41 victory over Southwestern

BOYS:

Boys Box Score: Open file

Southwestern won their second Ole Oaken Bucket Championship with a 60-45 win over Madison

HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS BASKETBALL:

Switzerland Co. falls to North Decatur 55-42

 

  

(Collier playing at Hanover College)              (In attendance at Hanover game February 11, 2017)

Former Hanover College Men's Basketball Coach John Collier passed away on Wednesday at the Thornton Terrace Heath Campus in Hanover. Collier coached at Hanover College from 1966 until 1988 winning 388 games. As a player, Collier started all four years of his college career at Hanover. He was inducted to the Indiana hoops hall in 1979, then to Hanover College’s athletic hall of fame in 1995. Coach Collier also coached high school basketball at Vevay from 1951-56 and Brookville from 1956-66. Coach Collier was 92 years old.

FUNERAL CEREMONY 
Funeral services will be conducted Saturday, December 1, 2018, at 4:30 p.m., by Pastor Melissa Englehart at the Morgan & Nay Funeral Centre, 325 Demaree Drive in Madison, Indiana. Interment will follow in the Hanover Cemetery in Hanover, Indiana. 

VISITATION 
Friends may visit Saturday from 12:00 Noon - 4:30 p.m. at the Morgan & Nay Funeral Centre, 325 Demaree Drive in Madison, Indiana.

Morgan & Nay John Collier Memorial Page 

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