What do scoring 113 points in one basketball game, inventing the 3 point shot and developing hand signals for football referee's have in common? One man from Culver, INDIANA...

Culver, Indiana - set on the beautiful shores of Lake Maxinkuckee, the second largest natural inland lake in Indiana - has a rich basketball history. One special link is that of Herman Sagyer, who as a junior at Culver High School, scored 113 points in one game against Winimac - setting a Indiana High School Athletic Association record for points scored in a single game (recognized posthumously).

Sagyar went on to start his own business, but he wasn’t done with his ideas about how basketball should be played. In March of 1932 he put on an exhibition game putting in play the 3-point shot and scoring - 35 years before the ABA and 47 years before it was adopted by the NBA. He also experimented with another idea - where teams could shoot any time and make baskets at either end of the court.

Alas, Sagyar wasn’t done - in a third accomplishment not given much credit, he developed the first set of hand signals for football referees to use during games.

Read more in this wonder March 24, 2015 article published in the Indianapolis Star by Kyle Neddenriep or in his entry on the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame website. Both links provided, text included below: