Near the end of the film, Hackman, who plays high school basketball coach Norman Dale, leads his small-school Hickory team into Hinkle Fieldhouse, the site of the Indiana state championship game.

thrilling portrayal of amateur basketball and the valuable advice it lends viewers. Critics praised Gene Hackman’s performance as the determined protagonist coach Norman Dale. After Hackman (“The ...

but this is the granddaddy of every basketball movie that came after it. The late Gene Hackman headlined this mostly true story about Coach Norman Dale and the small town team he led in 1954.

The storyline of “Hoosiers” is about a basketball coach with a checkered ... and starred Gene Hackman as Coach Norman Dale. Thoughts abounded that Bonham was possibly channeling his inner ...

Photo: Tom Strickland/AP One of the late Gene Hackman’s most beloved performances was as Coach Norman Dale in the classic basketball film “Hoosiers.” Loosely based on the story of the 1954 Indiana ...

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 ...

Crutchfield doesn’t get calls from coaches all over the country ... He won’t pull Norman Dale saying, “We’re way past the big speech time,” in the movie Hoosiers when top-seeded ...

A disgraced college basketball coach seeking a way back ... in the most unlikely and overlooked places. In becoming Coach Norman Dale, he enriched the lives of people he would never meet.” ...

In a little less than two weeks, basketball ... as Norman Dale that sports fans will forever remember him most, the leader of the tiny band of Indiana dreamers who took a chance on their coach ...

Won three Golden Globes and was nominated for five others. None of them for the role of Indiana high school basketball coach Norman Dale. Turns out, coaches don’t get many votes in acting awards.

Bo Ogden has not determined where he will play college basketball, but the front-runners ... At the end of the film, Hickory coach Norman Dale, played by the late Gene Hackman, designed a play ...