Sudden Death Overtime?

[Jesse James]

Originally Posted by paulsonj72

I was reading the NFHS handbook and saw that back in the early 1960's sudden death overtime was eliminated in high school basketball. For those that remember what was this. And was it an option for overtime in addition to the regular 3:00 OT period at the time.

In the late 50's and at least thru 1962, Indiana played a 3:00 minute overtime initially--then if it was tied after the first OT, it went to sudden death--first team to score two points was the winner. I think (not certain on this though) it was a three minute session also, so at the end of time in the second OT it was feasible for a team to be ahead (by one) but the game still proceeding.

Can't speak to this being a fed rule--may have been though.