Editing Melrose, Iowa (section)

==Sports==
[[File:MelroseIowaBasketballMonument.jpg|thumb|left|A monument in Melrose, commemorating the 1937 basketball team.]]
The [[1937 Melrose High School (Iowa) Shamrocks|1937 Melrose Shamrocks]] were the [[Iowa]] state high school [[basketball]] champions. With an enrollment of only 66, the Shamrocks were the smallest school ever to win a single-class state basketball title in Iowa. The team finished their season 33&ndash;0, the first undefeated boys basketball team in Iowa history.  In 2012, the [[Des Moines Register]] recognized the Shamrocks as one of the ten best State tournament teams in Iowa history.<ref name=Schoffner>{{cite web|url=http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20120215/SPORTS08/120207021/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130121092347/http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20120215/SPORTS08/120207021/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-01-21 |title=100 years: The top 10 all-time teams |first=Chuck |last=Schoffner |publisher=[[Des Moines Register]] |date=2012-02-15 |accessdate=2012-02-19 }}</ref>  The Shamrocks made the State boys' basketball tournament again in 1938, 1950, and 1959.

Walt O'Connor and Jim Thynne from the 1937 team and Donald Knowles, a 1942 Melrose graduate, were inducted into the [[Iowa High School Athletic Association]] Hall of Fame.<ref name=IHSAAHallofFame>{{cite web |url=http://www.iahsaa.org/basketball/Archives/bb_hall_of_fame.pdf |title=IHSAA Hall of Fame Players and Coaches (Updated January 15, 2012) |publisher=[[Iowa High School Athletic Association]] |format=PDF |accessdate=2012-02-24 |archive-date=2008-12-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202124347/http://www.iahsaa.org/basketball/Archives/bb_hall_of_fame.pdf |url-status=dead }}  List of all players and coaches admitted to the hall of fame from 1969 to 2011 and lists the players and coaches to be inducted during the 2012 State Tournament.</ref>  In March 2012, the Iowa High School Athletic Association inducted Coach Ad Hlubek into the Hall of Fame as a coach.<ref name=IHSAAHallofFame/>  In May 2012, the Iowa House of Representatives officially congratulated the 1937 Melrose Shamrocks basketball team on the 75th anniversary of their championship.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=BillInfo&Service=Billbook&ga=84&hbill=HR148 |title=House Resolution 148 |accessdate=2012-05-05}}</ref>  The resolution recounted the accomplishments of the 1937 team and encouraged "all Iowans to follow its example in striving to accomplish goals that seem impossible." In late 2012, the city of Melrose, erected a monument in the center of town honoring the 1937 basketball team and its selection in a [[Des Moines Register]] poll as the top team in the first 100 years of boys’ basketball in Iowa.