State Champions- Herrin
2nd Place- Collinsville
3rd Place- Ottawa
4th Place- Quincy Notre Dame
The 1957 Galesburg Silver Streaks upset #6 Rock Island and Don Nelson in the Sectional in a famous “slow-down game.” The Streaks lost in the Elite 8 matchup vs. Collinsville. A look at the box score shows that Galesburg outscored Collinsville from the field 50-34 but Collinsville shot 37 free throws and Galesburg shot 12. The fouls were 23 on Galesburg and 7 on Collinsville.
“Old-timers” in Galesburg have always speculated that some of the issues might have been connected to Galesburg starting 4 African-American players. When the final horn went off, a near riot or riot broke out between the fans of the two schools.
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1957- Galesburg 23 Rock Island 21
1957- Ernie Eveland and Duster Thomas in Galesburg
The 1957 tournament had many close hard fought games that had many of us glued to our radios. Illinois one class basketball at its best. Believe
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