{"id":6401,"date":"2025-11-15T10:24:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T15:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/?p=6401"},"modified":"2025-11-17T18:47:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:47:02","slug":"shelby-county-high-schools-kentucky-state-high-school-basketball-tournament-team-1966","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/2025\/11\/15\/shelby-county-high-schools-kentucky-state-high-school-basketball-tournament-team-1966\/","title":{"rendered":"Shelby County High School\u2019s Kentucky State High School Basketball Tournament team (1966)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Shelby County High School\u2019s Kentucky State High School Basketball Tournament team (1966)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In 1966, the Shelby County Rockets won the Kentucky State High School Basketball Tournament.

The team included front row, left to right, Bobby Burchfield, Johnny Edington, Gene Witt, Jobie Miller, Bill Busey, Terry Davis, Keith Stratton, manager

Back row, left to right, Assistant Coach Arnold Thurman, Larry Glass, Hugh Smith, Jim Simons, Gene Edwards, Mike Casey, Mike Popp, Jamie Pickett, Ron Ritter, Bill Moffett, Dave Bohannon, Assistant Coach Mitchell Bailey, head coach Bill Harrell.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Date<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Circa 1966<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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People<\/a>, <\/span>Schools & Education<\/a>, <\/span>Sports<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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  • From New History of Shelby County pg. 437<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Portrait of the Past<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Jim Cleveland Photo Collection ID NHSC_437<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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    This file may be downloaded for personal, research, or classroom use, free of charge.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Winning team of the 1966 Kentucky State High School Basketball Tournament<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":4650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[93,96,97],"post_folder":[77],"class_list":["post-6401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo","tag-people","tag-schools-education","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6401"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6770,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6401\/revisions\/6770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6401"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=6401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}