Point Guard

the first moment his hands touched

a ball and he dribbled up and down

his stairs. He always dreamed of

playing point guard on the high

school varsity team. Flustered by

fights with the town bully, and

conflicts with a coach who never gave

him a fair shake, Gary transferred to

Ashland High for his senior year.

Ashland was a sleepy little farm

community in Illinois, it was the place

where he had been born. Gary wasn't

treated like a new kid at all; he was a

wayward friend who'd finally returned

home. Everything began to click with

his new coach and teammates.

At a time for hot rods, tiny Nash

Ramblers, and long black hearses,

Elvis had the top hits on radio and

the juke boxes. Magically, all the

dreams for the purple and white

Ashland Panthers basketball team

began to come true. Point Guard is

the story of how it happened way

back in 1957.