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Phil Wills

Dan'l Boone

Redshirt Freshman
May 4, 2002
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Purdue lost another Indiana Basketball HOF alumni last week.

High School: Grass Creek 1957
College: Purdue University 1962
Inducted 1999

"From a Fulton Co. School of 63 students long since swallowed up in consolidation, assures the Panthers a permanent basketball niche, because he scored like no one else in Indiana's high school history...averaged 42.2 points as a senior...more than 40 yeasts later, still the state record...one-game high was 60 in an 82-70 victory over Medaryville, he had 53 against Macy...at Purdue, Wills lettered 3 years with a single-game high of 20 points...served 6 years in the Army, earning 2 Bronze Stars & a Purple Heart for Vietnam duty and a Presidential Citation"
 
Purdue lost another Indiana Basketball HOF alumni last week.

High School: Grass Creek 1957
College: Purdue University 1962
Inducted 1999

"From a Fulton Co. School of 63 students long since swallowed up in consolidation, assures the Panthers a permanent basketball niche, because he scored like no one else in Indiana's high school history...averaged 42.2 points as a senior...more than 40 yeasts later, still the state record...one-game high was 60 in an 82-70 victory over Medaryville, he had 53 against Macy...at Purdue, Wills lettered 3 years with a single-game high of 20 points...served 6 years in the Army, earning 2 Bronze Stars & a Purple Heart for Vietnam duty and a Presidential Citation"
RIP Phil!
 
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