And RIP, Norman Dale. It was necessary to say ... the addiction-battling basketball savant he empowered as an assistant coach ...

And of course, there is Gene Hackman as Norman Dale, arguably the greatest coach in sports movie history. FILE – Actor Gene Hackman gives fictional Hickory High basketball players instructions ...

But in Indiana, Hackman’s role as small town basketball coach Norman Dale in the 1986 movie “Hoosiers” still resonates nearly 40 years after the movie was released. “A phenomenal actor ...

They were pages filled with the story of a small-town basketball team in rural Indiana and the complex cast of characters, including coach Norman Dale. When Nicholson was asked to take a look at ...

Not so with Hackman. He becomes Norman Dale: the coach-as-gunslinger who rides into town and cleans up the basketball team, who wields his black game-plan folder like a baton, who learns to love ...

But his Coach Norman Dale portrayal will always be my favorite ... In the season of 1965-66, after the Plymouth High basketball team won District 2. So heralded were we that the town held an ...

In college basketball, "Hoosiers" is a classic film ... he only became famous and adored among sports fans after playing coach Norman Dale in the 1986 film "Hoosiers." The movie, loosely based ...

And RIP, Norman Dale. It was necessary to say ... the addiction-battling basketball savant he empowered as an assistant coach. The more Dale was willing to be vulnerable, the more he bonded ...

And RIP, Norman Dale. It was necessary to say ... the addiction-battling basketball savant he empowered as an assistant coach. The more Dale was willing to be vulnerable, the more he bonded ...

After reading of Gene Hackman’s death early Thursday morning, Steve Hollar sent a group text to his former Hickory Huskers’ teammates: “We lost our coach.” Hackman, who was found dead in ...