COBDEN -- The Cobden Appleknockers' magical 1964 basketball season will be immortalized in the newly established Cobden Hall of Fame. The team, which is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its ...

In 1964, she came as a Cobden Appleknocker. The Amazing Appleknockers went a magical 32-3 that season but would eventually fall to Pekin by 5 points in the state title game. Nearly 60 years later ...

COBDEN - Former coach Dick Ruggles remembers quite well his 1964 trip to Champaign with the Cobden high school "Amazing Appleknockers" basketball team. And so apparently does the rest of Cobden ...

HERRIN, IL (WSIL) -- A meet and greet style event is scheduled in Herrin with players and the coach of the amazing Cobden Appleknockers basketball team of 1964. The event will be held at Champs ...

Cobden, incidentally, is batting two-for-two in state trophies. In 1964 the Appleknockers lost in the finals of the state basketball tournament, and there might have been an evil omen for the ...

COBDEN, Ill. (KFVS ... “The Amazing Appleknockers: Illinois’ Cinderella Basketball Team of 1964.” The authors, coach and some of the players will be there. The Peach Festival parade ...