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Doba returns home to South Bend

By Ted Miller
Special to ESPN.com

Wednesday, September 3, 2003

On April 11, 1965, Bill Doba, the first-year coach at Angola (Ind.) High School, was playing golf when a monumental disaster appeared out of nowhere. The Palm Sunday tornadoes ripped apart Indiana. Eleven twisters struck 20 counties and killed 137 people, and property damage exceeded $30 million. It was Indiana's worst tornado disaster. "The destruction was devastating," recalled Doba, who just missed the storm's wrath. INSIDER COVERAGE Team Report Sitelines Recruiting Team R ...

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