Edgerton basketball coach Rich Olson gets a victory ride after his team defeated Mountain Lake, Thursday March 17, 1960, sending Edgerton on to the state high school basketball tournament. Minneapolis STAR photo by Paul Siegel. (Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

EDGERTON, MINN. – The crowd walked on scuffed floorboards and sat in old wooden bleachers as they gathered at Edgerton High School’s old gym, a humble brick building where the legendary 1960 state champions were forged.

The nearly 90-year-old gym is scheduled for demolition in early June. And so community members in this small town about 45-minutes northwest of Worthington made one last trip to say their farewells to the place where history was made.

The gymnasium is where the 1960 Edgerton Flying Dutchmen, a team etched into Minnesota sports lore, honed their skills prior to an improbable state championship run. It was a true David-and-Goliath saga that saw the tiny school with a graduating class of 34 toppling giants, captivating a state and earning them the moniker “Minnesota’s Most Legendary Basketball Team.”

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