Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Later Life
People may wonder about what Jim Hudock did after his career in basketball. He became a dentist and practiced in Kinston, NC, throughout his career. He loved the beach, and eventually bought homes in Emerald Isle, NC, where many of these pictures were taken in his later life. This is just a short look at his later life with his family.
Friday, September 29, 2017
Sunday, January 5, 2014
Dixie Classic 1959 Tickets
The Dixie Classic was an annual college basketball tournament played from 1949 to 1960 in Reynolds Coliseum. The field consisted of the "Big Four" North Carolina schools, the host NC State Wolfpack, Duke Blue Devils, North Carolina Tar Heels, and Wake Forest Demon Deacons, and four teams from across the country.
North Carolina State head coach Everett Case originated the idea of the Classic. His assistant, Carl "Butter" Anderson provided the name. The tournament was played over a three-day period every December, just after Christmas, on North Carolina State's home court.[1]
The Classic consisted of three rounds. In the first round the four North Carolina schools would each play a visiting team. The winners of the first round game would advance in the winners' bracket and the losers would advance in the losers' bracket. Each day would have four games played until the third and final day when a champion would be crowned. No team from outside North Carolina ever won the Classic.
The tournament came to an end after a point-shaving scandal in 1961 involving players from both North Carolina State and North Carolina.[2][3]
In 2011 The Classic: How Everett Case and His Tournament Brought Big-Time Basketball to the South by Bethany Bradsher (ISBN 978-0-9836825-2-3) was published telling the story of the Dixie Classic. (from Wikipedia)
Hudock Family Grows 'Em Big - Philadelphia Inquirer
This is an article from the scrapbook Jim's mother, Dorothy Hudock, put together of his high school athletic career. The article was published in the Philadelphia Inquirer during Jim's junior year at Tunkhannock High, when he had passed both his brother and his father by in size. Mike Hudock senior had played professional basketball, and Mike "Oz" Hudock, Jr, was, at the time of this picture, the starting varsity center for the University of Miami football team. They were big, and expected little Jimmy to be big, too, but as you can see, his size became more than even they imagined.
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