About the Film

In 1908, Eighth grader Alma Richards quits school. He doesn't see the point in going when he could be working as a ranch hand. A chance encounter with a Michigan State Professor sets Alma back on the road to education, which in turn leads him to more than he's ever dreamed of including a trip to the Stockholm Olympics competing in High Jump for a Gold Medal.
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Give Me Strength (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)
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Olympedia (Olympedia)
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Alma: BYA Boy Wins Olympic Gold (Y Magazine)
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Utah Native Leaped to Fame in 1912 Summer Games (Deseret News)
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Utah Historical Quarterly Alma Richards’s Olympic Leap of Faith Revisited (Utah Historical Society)
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Praying on the Field + 4 More Times Latter-day Saint Olympians Shared Their Faith on the World Stage (LDS Living)
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Alma Richards (1986) – Hall of Fame (Cornell University Hall of Fame)
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Alma Richards: Mormon Athlete (Mormon Wikipedia)
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More about Alma Richards, first Olympian from Utah, and from Brigham Young High School (BYHigh.org)
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Utah’s First Olympic Gold Medalist (Chalkboard Champions)
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Meet Alma Richards, a gold medalist! (Gospel Living)
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Alma Richards, Olympian (Project MUSE)
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From small town Utah to the Olympic stage. This new film tells the story… (Studio 5)
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Making Movies, Learning Lessons (FamilySearch)
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