The Bellfountain Giant Killers: The Story of a Small Oregon High School and its Miraculous Championship Season

In the 1930's basketball was a different game. After each goal was another center jump. It slowed the game tilting the outcome to the school with the tallest players. Still, one of Oregon's smallest schools went to the state playoffs anyway. With just eight players, the smallest team in the tournament, at Willamette University, in Salem, Oregon, in 1937, Bellfountain took on and defeated the largest schools in the state. It is a story of coaching and inspiration. They did the impossible and lifted the spirits of a depression weary Oregon.