Meet the American who coined 'March Madness,' Illinois high school hoops pioneer and visionary H.V. Porter
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Meet the American who coined "March Madness" to capture the passion of the statewide basketball tournament in March 1939: Illinois high school sports administrator Henry "H.V." Porter.
"Porter was a visionary. He was ahead of his time." — Bruce Firchau, Basketball Museum of Illinois "Equipment inventor, rule maker, high school coach and athletic administrator, Henry Porter’s innovations were vital to the evolution of basketball." — Basketball Hall of Fame "Eagles fly and heroes die/beneath some foreign arch/let their sons thread where hate is dead/in a happy Madness of March." — H.V. Porter during WWII Small-town March Madness reached its zenith in Illinois in 1952. Hebron's basketball coach enlisted a local blacksmith to forge hoops from iron so that Hebron kids could hang them from trees or barns and shoot baskets at home. "A little March Madness may complement and contribute to sanity and help keep society on an even keel." — H.V. Porter Kerry J. Byrne is a lifestyle reporter with Fox News Digital.
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