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This book by former Lethbridge Herald sports editor Garry Allison tells the stories of our city’s most famous sports teams – including the the Broder Chinooks (Canadian senior basketball powerhouse of the early 1960s), Lethbridge Maple Leafs (world amateur ice hockey champs 1951), and the Lethbridge Native Sons (junior ice hockey). Individual athletes are also recognized and chapters are devoted to rodeo stars and indigenous sportspersons from the Kainai and Piikani Nations. Allison also relates behind-the-scenes stories from the city’s annual Kinsmen Sportsmen Dinners which featured a who’s who of famous athletes from boxers Rocky Marciano and Jake LaMotta to track and field Olympian Jesse Owens.

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Sporting Legends of the South by Garry Allison (107 p.) [Occasional Paper No. 55]. 2013.

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