Muncie Central High School ( M.C.H.S. ) was built in 1925 on the site of the previous Muncie High School ( 1881 - 1913 ) , and was closed in 1973 when the present Muncie Central was built in a former flood plain on North Walnut Street.
Following the demolition of the downtown Muncie Central High School the site was redeveloped as the International Headquarters for the Ball Brothers Corporation, who moved from that site to Colorado in 1998.
In 1965, Central High School was one of two city high schools, with the other being the newly built "Southside High School".
Later a third high school was built, "Northside", which has since become a Middle School, located on Bethel Avenue.
In 1965 Muncie Central was a three story tall (plus a roof building and full basement) red brick building the size of an entire city block, centrally located in downtown Muncie, Indiana at Charles & Franklin Streets.
Muncie Central has achieved local, state and regional recognition in many
of its extracurricular programs, including national recognition for Central's athletics and academics programs, as well as having achieved
international recognition in student exchange programs.
And we who went to Muncie Central were COOL, need I say more !
BEARCATS FOREVER !
Me and Central, We Go Way Back Together
1965 : I graduated from Muncie Central in 1965.
Check out my : Graduation picture
(Not yet available)
Check out the names of : MCHS Graduates in 1965
(not yet available)
1975
: My wife Joan was a Teacher at Muncie Central
High School in 1975 and 1976.
Maybe you remember her :
Check out her : Photo from 1976
(Not yet available)
1997 :
Our son Roy graduated from Muncie Central in 1997.
He played on the Central Football Team 1993 to 1997.
Those Muncie Central Foot Ball Team statistics can be seen :
Here
And the Foot Ball Team pictures are also available for :
At Muncie Central High School everyone knows they are so cool, because Muncie Central High School has won EIGHT State Basketball Championships, ......count'um :
-- 1928, 1931, 1951, 1952, 1963, 1978, 1979, 1988.
Those Central victories were won in five decades, under five coaches, all of whom have since been inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame.
Those eight victory banners hang side-by-side from the rafters of The Muncie Fieldhouse, where there isn't room for our OTHER banners celebrating lesser triumphs : 50 sectional titles, 33 regional titles, 17 semistate titles, and five state runnerups.
Muncie Central High School's legendary Coach Bill Harrell coached our Bearcats to three of those state titles and 599 victories,..... count'um : five-hundred-and-ninety-nine !
WE are so COOL !!!
Birth of the Bearcats
Our nickname "Bearcats" originated in 1923, from descriptions fans gave to players that years Central basketball team. Some of the team supporters claimed the team "fought like bears" while others argued that they "fought like cats", so a compromise was reached, and the results became our team name : "Bearcats".
Some Brief Basketball History
It all started in 1911 when Mr. James Naismith invented Basketball in Massachusetts. He once said that : "basketball really had its origin in Indiana", where high school basketball has been a way of life ever since Bloomington hosted the first high school championship basketball game in 1911, the enthusiastic following of which has since become termed "Hoosier Hysteria" and has spread like a wildfire to Indiana's 384 high schools.
Since then Basketball has been taken very seariously here in Indiana, where seventeen of the twenty largest capacity high school gymnasiums in North America are here in Indiana !
Six of those high school gymnasiums have a seating capisity of over 7,500 people. Our own Muncie Field House formerly seated over 7,000 people plus hundreds more standing.
By 1990 the Indiana State Championship Basketball Game shattered every national high school game attendance by over 20,000 fans, where in the Hoosier Dome at Indianapolis we assembled 40,046 Basketball fans !
Two of Muncie Central's most exciting State Championship basketball games occurred in 1954 and 1990.
The Movie "HOOSIERS" : Even our worst defeat is historicly significant, and you may have even seen it replayed in the movie "HOOSIERS" , about our 1954 State Championship game when Muncie Central played tiny Milan High School, with only 161 students, who defeated our Muncie Central four time state championship record
with a score of 32-30. This was the most memorable
game in Indiana State Basketball Tournament history. Milan became the smallest high
school to ever before or after win the Indiana state championship.
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