Sport – January 1948 – Ralph Beard and Arnold Ferrin

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This is the January 1948 issue of SPORT. Its cover photo features
Ralph Beard
of the University of Kentucky and
Arnold Ferrin
of the University of Utah. Cover articles are “Did
Rocky Graziano
Get a Square Deal?,” “Meet Dike Eddleman – Illinois 3-Letterman” and “My Case Against Hockey.” There are other articles, as well as color and black & white photos and vintage advertisements.
The magazine contains 104 pages and measures approximately 8.5 x 11 inches.
Ralph Milton Beard Jr. (December 2, 1927-November 29, 2007) was a collegiate and professional basketball player. He won two NCAA national basketball championships at the University of Kentucky and played two years in the National Basketball Association prior to being barred for life for his participation in the 1951 point shaving scandal.
He was a member of Adolph Rupp's "Fabulous Five" University of Kentucky basketball team, with Alex Groza, Wallace Jones, Cliff Barker and Kenny Rollins. Beard won a gold medal in the 1948 Summer Olympics with the Fabulous Five and the Phillips 66ers.
Taken in the second round of the 1949 NBA draft, Beard played two seasons with the Indianapolis Olympians and averaged 15.9 points and 4.4 assists per game.
Chariton Arnold Ferrin, Jr. (born July 29, 1925) is a retired professional basketball player, executive and college athletics administrator. He played college basketball at the University of Utah and professionally with the Minneapolis Lakers in the Basketball Association of America (BAA) and National Basketball Association (NBA). Ferrin served as the athletic director at his alma mater, Utah, from 1976 to 1985.
In college at Utah, he won the NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player award in 1944 when the Utes won the NCAA Championship over Dartmouth. Ferrin also helped Utah win the 1947 National Invitation Tournament. He became the only four-time All-American at Utah.
Ferrin played professionally for three straight years with the Minneapolis Lakers from 1949 through 1951 under coach John Kundla. The team won the BAA (later the NBA) championship in 1949 and won the NBA championship in 1950, both times with the help of Ferrin. He scored 345 points in 1949 and 340 in 1950, ending his career with 1,037 points in three years. He made 275-of-401 free throws in his career.