Blitz Kids : The Cinderella Story of the 1944 University of Utah National Championship Basketball Team

by Ferrin, Josh; Ferrin, Tres

• ISBN13: 9781423624943
• ISBN10: 1423624947
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-02-02
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith

Summary

In the 1940s, before March Madness, the frenzy of the NBA draft, and multimillion-dollar professional contracts, college basketball players played simply because they loved the game. This is the story of a group of kids who loved to play basketball: the underdog 1943-44 University of Utah men's basketball team and their unlikely path to the NCAA championship, who came out of nowhere to upset heavily favored Dartmouth for the title.

Author Biography

Josh and Tres Ferrin, grandson and son of Arnie Ferrin, both grew up hearing stories of Arnie's illustrious basketball career at the University of Utah. Josh established himself as an award-winning illustrator and author before deciding to research and write the story of Arnie's championship season with his father. He resides in Bountiful, Utah, with his wife and two sons. Tres is a physical therapist who has practiced in the area of sports medicine for 35 years, an adjunct faculty member at Weber State University, and an avid cyclist. He and his wife, Sherry, live in Ogden, Utah.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 6
Introduction	p. 8
Prologue Pain and Providence	p. 11
Wataru	p. 19
Arnie	p. 30
Making Enemies Out of Countrymen	p. 39
Growing Pains	p. 49
A Utah Man	p. 59
Stitching a Team Together	p. 68
Scraping Together a Schedule	p. 93
Perseverance Pays Off	p. 104
Bright Lights of the Big Apple	p. 119
Filling In	p. 135
The Blitz	p. 144
Redemption	p. 155
The Beginning	p. 163
Acknowledgments	p. 178
Index	p. 181
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