Synopsis | Things weren’t easy for Chip Hilton after the death of his father, one of the greatest athletes Valley Falls High and State University had ever seen. Chip had to go to work in Schroeder's Sugar Bowl after school hours – but every minute he could spare he gave to sports.
At the start of the football season in Chip’s junior year, he found himself one of the few veterans on the squad, in a battle for the fullback spot on the Valley Falls varsity. But before the season was even half over, Chip Hilton and Speed Morris, the “Touchdown Twins,” were passing and running the Big Reds to victory after victory. Then, like a bolt out of the blue, disaster struck. For a time it looked as though his brilliant sports career was over. But Coach Henry Rockwell, “the Rock” to all his fiercely loyal team, never let Chip give up. And then, in the final game which meant the state championship, Chip Hilton called the play that spelled victory. TOUCHDOWN PASS is the first story in Chip Hilton Sports Series written by the famous athlete and coach, Clair Bee. Mr. Bee knows sports, he knows boys, and he knows how to write a plus-stirring sports story.
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Series Synopsis | William "Chip" Hilton is the hero of a series of sports novels for boys written by ex-college basketball coach Clair Bee and issued between 1948 and 1965 by New York publisher Grosset & Dunlap. Chip is a football, baseball and basketball star. His pals are Biggie, Soapy and Fireball. Chip's sort of girlfriend is Mitzi, the head cashier at his employer's drug store. The series progresses in chronological sequence. Chip and his pals age one season at a time during the series. Eventually they graduate from Valley Falls High School and go to State College.
About the Author | The same faculties that have made Clair Bee one of the top basketball coaches in the country have made him a successful writer of sports stories for boys. He knows what makes boys tick!
Born in Parkersburg, West Virginia, in 1900, he went to high school in Grafton, West Virginia, where he captained the football, basketball and baseball teams. He studied at Waynesburg College, Ohio State University, Rider College and Rutgers University, winning, in addition to an imposing string of degrees, his letter in football, baseball, basketball, and tennis.
He served in AEF in World War I and was a commander in the U.S.M.S in World War II. Besides being coach of many winning basketball teams at Long Island University, he is assistant to the president of that institution, owns and operates a big farm in Hudson Valley and conducts basketball clinics in the summertime. At odd moments he has found the time to write a series of coaching books known as the “Clair Bee Basketball Library.”
Boys who read CHIP HILTON stories will discover that Clair Bee unconsciously has drawn upon his own experiences as a boy and a man for two of the unforgettable characters in these books – Chip Hilton, the hero and Hank Rockwell, the understanding coach.
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