By the 1951-1952 basketball season, Bill Schulz stood at 6-foot-10 and played center for the Alden-Hebron Green Giants. That school had just 98 students and just five players on its basketball team.
That year, the team went 35-1 and won the 1952 IHSA Basketball Tournament by beating Quincy in overtime 64-59, with Bill as the leading scorer.
Alden-Hebron is the smallest school ever to win the IHSA (Illinois High School Association) Tournament in the old one-class system where all schools are in the same class regardless of size.
In 2017, Bill was inducted into the Illinois Coaches Association Player Hall of Fame. Today, the Hebron water tower is painted to look like a basketball in honor of the 1952's team accomplishments.
(Today, Quincy, Illinois, has a population of 40,000 and Hebron 1,200.)
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