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Everett
Case was born in Anderson Indiana June 21 1900. As early as 1915 Case was
credited with coaching a Methodist Church team, he graduated in 1919 from
Anderson High School, according to the yearbook; he declared his future
occupation as "basketball coach". After graduation and Case went to the
University of Illinois to learn from Ralph R. Jones.
The school board from among 18 applicants selected a twenty-two year old
Everett Case for $1,800 a year as Frankfort's basketball and track coach.
Everett Case enlisted in the Navy in 1941. He left materials on his desk at Frankfort High School and didn't retrieve them until 1946. Case was commissioned a senior-grade lieutenant and reported to Annapolis for a four-week training course. Then off to Chicago for five weeks training and then to Naval Pre-flight school at St. Mary's College in California. He served as assistant athletic director and director of basketball. He was also Athletic Director at the Alameda Naval Air Station.
In 1943, DePauw University at Greencastle Indiana began a naval flight
preparatory school. An abbreviated basketball schedule was uses. Case was a
Lt. Comdr. now and Athletic Director of the program
Upon leaving the Navy in 1946 Case took over at North Carolina
State. Before the war, Hoosiers had flocked to California to play basketball.
After the War, Case brought Hoosiers and Hoosier style basketball to the South.
In 1964, Case was diagnosed with multiple
melanoma. His mother had
died of cancer and his father's suicide was quite possibly due to the same
disease. Case suffered a slow painful death due to the malignancy that slowly
destroys bones in the body while displacing the blood cell producing marrow.
Case Arena is named for Everett Case, the legionary basketball
coach.
