Curt Day
The Horseshoe Pitching Career
and Tournament Results of Curt Day
Frankfort, Indiana

All Available Tournament Results of Curt Day
note:  some of the percentages may not calculate out exactly,
but the W-L and place records should be fairly accurate as
these tournament results were taken from Curt Day's own personal records
web site edited by Kenny Wolf
web site address:  www.kennywolf.com/dayshoes.htm
site hosted by ACCS.net

Curt Day


1949
Tournament
Qual.
W
L
R
SP
%
Pl.
Clinton County Tourney, Frankfort, IN



1012 pts.

1
Indiana State

12
7
595

62.6
6

1950
Tournament
Qual.
W
L
R
SP
%
Pl.
Indiana State
238
10
5
563

59.0
6

Curt Day
A young Curt Day pitching on the home courts in Frankfort, Indiana

1951

Tournament
Qual.
W
L
R
SP
%
Pl.
Indiana State
340
13
2
810
1132
71.5
2

1952
Tournament
Qual.
W
L
R
SP
%
Pl.
Indiana "State B Class"
342


418
590
70.8
1

1953
Tournament
Qual.
W
L
R
SP
%
Pl.
Indiana State - high game 86.3%
393
15
0


77.1
1

1954
Tournament
Qual.
W
L
R
SP
%
Pl.
Eastern National
10
5
908
1182
76.8
3
Indiana State

10
3
711
944 75.4 3

1955
Tournament
Qual.
W
L
R
SP
%
Pl.
Clinton County Tourney, Frankfort, IN

5
0


75.9
1
Indiana State

13
0
734
958
76.6
1
Indiana - Ohio

11 0

73.1
3
Lakeside Open, Ohio "Class B"

6
1
274
418
65.5
3

1956
Tournament
Qual.
W
L
R
SP
%
Pl.
Indiana State

8
5
886
1148
77.2
4
World Tournament
493
28
7


77.0
4
playoff?

2
1




Midwest

11
0


74.4
1

1957
Tournament
Qual.
W
L
R
SP
%
Pl.
Indiana State

8
5
886
1148
77.2
5
Wabash Classic

6
1
457
574
79.6
1
World Tournament Prelims. - Murray, UT
506
14
3
1149
1424
80.7
3
World Tournament Finals

8
5
1096
1342
81.6
6
Lakeside

4
5
397
602
65.9
6
Midwest Ringer

7
4
729
944
77.2
5
Indiana State

14
1
742
970
76.5
1
Bethel

5
0
192
262
73.3
1
Clinton County Tourney

4
1



2


Curt Day
One career goal Curt Day did not accomplish is that he wanted to pitch a perfect game in the World Championship or in a state sanctioned tournament, but he never did.  But he did manage to pitch one of the greatest games in Championship Tournament history in 1957 against the great 10 Times World Champion Ted Allen from Boulder, Colorado.  Allen once set the record for consecutive ringers in a World Championship tournament game with 72 consecutive ringers in the 1955 World.  Guy  Zimmerman (1954 World Champion) from California pitched a perfect 100% game in the 1948 World and Canadian Elmer Hohl (six times World Champion), from Ontario, pitched a perfect 100% game in the 1968 World; the same tournament that Hohl set the record for a World Tournament average of 88.8% ringers in 35 games.  In 1963 (see on below), Curt did throw 35 ringers out of 36 shoes for 97.2% against Carl Atwell in the Indiana sanctioned Western Tournament in Frankfort, Indiana.
allen vs day 1957
Original Scorecard of the famous 1957 World Championship game between Ted Allen and Curt Day.  Each pitcher hit 155 ringers out of 174 shoes for an 89% average each and the game was won by Ted Allen by a score of 50 to 49.  With a 49 to 41 lead, Curt missed on both his next two shoes and Allen threw a double and reached 47 points, 2 points behind Curt.  The game ended six shoes later, with Allen hitting all 6 of his shoes for ringers and Day missing on one of his 6 shoes.  At one point, down 3 to 15, Curt Day strung on 34 consecutive ringers and only managed to tie the game 15 all, as Ted Allen only missed on 4 of his shoes.  Ted won the 1957 World for his 9th World Championship with a 32 games tournament average of 86.0% and winning his 10th and last time, two years later in 1959.  Ted Allen won his first World Tournament in 1933.

1958
Tournament
Qual.
W
L
R
SP
%
Pl.
World Tournament - Prelims.

12
5
953
1250
76.2

World Tournament - Championship Group

7
6
890
1130
78.8
5
Midwest Ringer

9
2
675
862
78.3
1
Indiana State

8
3
710
922
77.0
3

1959
Tournament
Qual.
W
L
R
SP
%
Pl.
World Tournament - Murray, UT
540
28
7
1739
2166
80.0
8
Midwest - Group 1, Frankfort, IN

9
0
476
606
78.5
1
Midwest playoffs

5
0
265
334
79.3
1
Indiana State, Frankfort, IN

19
0
1007
1228
82.0
1
Indiana - Ohio, Muncie, IN

7
0
336
416
80.6
1
Indiana - Ohio playoffs

2
1
244
294
82.9
1

1960
Tournament
Qual.
W
L
R
SP
%
Pl.
Lakeside, OH

7
0
396
480
82.5
1
Midwest, Greenville, OH

5
0
346
420
82.4
1
Midwest, Greenville, OH playoff

7
0
311
388
80.2
1
World Tournament prelims.? - Muncie, IN
545


657
808
81.3

World Tournament finals - Muncie, IN
30
5
2215
2758
80.3
3
Indiana State - Kokomo, IN

15
0
779
988
78.5
1
Corn Belt - Burlington, IA
283
10
1


80.8
2
Central Indiana - Muncie, IN
276 *
8
0


80.2
1
Indiana - Ohio - Muncie, IN

8
1


78.2
1
Clinton County Tourney, Frankfort, IN

6
1


81.0
1
* 276 with 90 ringers in 100 shoes pitched

1961
Tournament
Qual.
W
L
R
SP
%
Pl.
World Tournament - Muncie, IN
536
28
7
2274
2736
83.1
5
Midwest - Peoria, IL

11
1


83.3
1
Central Indiana - Kokomo, IN

7
0


78.9
1
Indiana State - Muncie, IN

14
1


80.1
1
Indiana - Ohio - Muncie, IN

8
1
547
710
77.0
1
Indiana - Ohio - playoff (Focht 51-35 w/70.5%)

1
0


79.4
1

1962
Tournament
Qual.
W
L
R
SP
%
Pl.
Midwest

11
2
804
1012
79.5
3
World Tournament
540
31
4
2337
2860
81.8
2
Northern Indiana - Wabash, IN

7
0
366
416
88.0
1
Indiana - Ohio

8
1
668
824
81.1
1
Indiana State - Muncie, IN

11
0
937
1100
85.1
1
Western

7
0
464
560
83.0
1
Galesburg






1

1963
Tournament
Qual.
W
L
R
SP
%
Pl.
Midwest

8
1


82.3
2
Western - Frankfort, IN *

7
0


83.4
1
Galesburg Open - Galesburg, IL

6
1


81.0
2
Indiana State - Frankfort, IN

11
0


85.8
1
Central

7
0


80.0
1
Bethel - Bethel, IN

7
0


80.0
1
* game against Carl Atwell, Curt Day hit 35 out of 36 shoes thrown for 97.2%

1964
Tournament
Qual.
W
L
R
SP
%
Pl.
Central - Anderson, IN

7
0


83.9
1
Western - Frankfort, IN

7
0


85.6
1
Midwest - Anderson, IN

12
1
872
1068
81.6
1
Corn Belt - Burlington, IA

8
1


80.9
3
Galesburg - Galesburg, IL

7
0


81.0
1
Indiana State - Muncie, IN

10
1


84.3
1
World Tournament - Greenville, OH
555
28
7


84.4
5
Bethel - Bethel, IN

7
0


84.2
1
Hobbs - Kokomo, IN

5
0


76.7
1
Indiana - Ohio - Muncie, IN

13
0


87.2
1

1965
Tournament
Qual.
W
L
R
SP
%
Pl.
Indiana - Illinois Open - Cayuga, In

7
0


81.0
1
Joe Schilling Memorial - Lafayette, In

7
0


81.6
1
Midwest - Connersville, IN

10
0


83.8
1
World Tournament - Keene, NH
535
29
6
2450
2850
86.0
4
World Warm Up - Manchester, NH

4
1


84.7
1
Western - Frankfort, IN

5
0


84.9
1
Indiana State - Muncie, IN

9
0
627
726
86.4
1
Indiana - Ohio Open - Muncie, IN

13
0


84.5
1
Central Indiana - Anderson, IN

7
0


85.6
1

1966
Tournament
Qual.
W
L
R
SP
%
Pl.
Joe Schilling Memorial - Lafayette, IN

5
2
481
604
79.6
2
Boone County Open - Lebanon, IN

5
0
264
318
83.0
1
Western Indiana

5
0
283
328
86.3
1
World Tournament Prelims. - Murray, UT

10
1
708
828
85.5
1 *
World Tournament Finals - Murray, UT

16
1
1443
1666
86.6
1
Indiana State - Muncie, IN

9
0
476
574
82.5
1
Clyde Green Memorial - Winchester, IN

7
0
439
524
83.8
1
Indiana - Ohio

8
0
236
270
87.3
1
Midwest

12
1
946
1120
84.5
1
* tie for 1st place in prelims.

1967
Tournament
Qual.
W
L
R
SP
%
Pl.
Schilling Memorial - Lafayette, IN

7
0
465
542
85.8
1
Connersville Spring Open - Connersville, IN

6
0
291
350
83.1
1
Midwest - Weston, MI

11
0
715
880
81.2
1
World Tournament - Fargo, ND
DC
32
3
2191
2690
81.4
2
81.4Western - Frankfort, IN

5
0
344
394
87.6
1
Clyde Green Memorial - Winchester, IN

6
1
387
470
82.3
1
Indiana State - Frankfort, IN

9
0
610
712
85.7
1
Indiana - Ohio - Muncie, IN

6
1
570
678
84.1
1
Indiana - Illinois - Cayuga, IN

6
1