Fight, Grin and Squarely Play the Game:: The 1945 Loyola New Orleans Basketball Championship and Legacy

by Ramon Antonio Vargas

Book Overview

In 1945, the Loyola New Orleans Wolf Pack became the city's first basketball team to earn a national championship. The Cinderella season was chronicled in the Times Picayune," the student newspaper "The Maroon" and letters from students and alums fighting overseas. The 1944-45 run to the championship was an amazing boon to the community during trying times. The group of boyhood friends and rivals beat out previous national champions and exhausted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609499182
• ISBN13: 9781609499181
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"