Editing Wingate, Indiana (section)

===Sports heritage===
Signage on the north and south ends of town (shown right) along [[Indiana State Road 25]] boast that, following the first Indiana State Basketball Championships that were held in 1911, the Wingate team was the first to win back-to-back championships in 1913 and 1914.<ref>{{Cite web|title = IHSAA Boys Basketball State Champions|url = http://www.ihsaa.org/Sports/Boys/Basketball/StateChampions/tabid/124/Default.aspx|website = www.ihsaa.org|access-date = December 3, 2015}}</ref> The same sign also mentions that Wingate produced four [[Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame]] inductees—Homer Stonebraker,<ref>{{cite web
  |url=http://www.hoopshall.com/hall-of-fame/homer-stonebraker/?back=HallofFame
  |title=Homer Stonebraker
  |publisher=Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame
  |access-date=January 10, 2015}}</ref> Jesse Wood,<ref>{{cite web
  |url=http://www.hoopshall.com/hall-of-fame/jesse-wood/?back=HallofFame
  |title=Jesse Wood
  |publisher=Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame
  |access-date=January 10, 2015}}</ref> Lee Thorn<ref>{{cite web
  |url=http://www.hoopshall.com/hall-of-fame/lee-thorn/?back=HallofFame
  |title=Lee Thorn
  |publisher=Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame
  |access-date=January 10, 2015}}</ref> and Alonzo Goldsberry<ref>{{cite web
  |url=http://www.hoopshall.com/hall-of-fame/alonzo-goldsberry/?back=HallofFame
  |title=Alonzo Goldsberry
  |publisher=Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame
  |access-date=January 10, 2015}}</ref>—and two football hall of famers. The Basketball Hall of Fame inducted a fifth player, Forest Crane, in 2013.<ref>{{cite web
  |url=http://www.hoopshall.com/hall-of-fame/john-forest-crainie-crane/?back=HallofFame
  |title=John Forest "Crainie" Crane
  |publisher=Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame
  |access-date=January 10, 2015}}</ref> Wingate was the site of the first electric basketball scoreboard; it was invented in 1935 by two local men, Lee Haxton and Roy Meharry.<ref>{{cite web
  |url=http://www.bhpinc.org/the-indiana-basketball-heritage-trail/
  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150707000404/http://bhpinc.org/the-indiana-basketball-heritage-trail/
  |url-status=usurped
  |archive-date=July 7, 2015
  |title=The Indiana Basketball Heritage Trail: Where Hoosier Hysteria Began
  |publisher=Basketball Heritage Project
  |access-date=January 10, 2015}}</ref>