Arnie Ferrin, named the Most Outstanding Player in UtahMBB's victory in the 1944 NCAA basketball championship game, died Tuesday. He was 97.
Arnie Ferrin, named the Most Outstanding Player in the University of Utah’s victory in the 1944 NCAA basketball championship game, died Tuesday. He was 97.“He was not doing well for a long time, but he just kept battling and he wasn’t going to quit,” Ferrin told The Salt Lake Tribune.
The 1944 Utes have staged many reunions and public appearances over the years. “It’s been a common bond that’s kept us together,” Ferrin said in 2004, during a 60th anniversary observance. The Utes went to Kansas City for the NCAA event, then returned to New York for the championship game. “We really didn’t understand the significance,” he once said of being an NBA champion. “I’m not sure we even had a party, and we obviously didn’t get a ring.”
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