Gridiron Glory (eBook)

The Story of the Army-Navy Football Rivalry

Ken Rappoport, Barry Wilner (Autoren)

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2005
240 Seiten
Taylor Trade Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4616-2605-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Consistently ranked among the top ten college football rivalries by fans and pundits alike-and often ranked among the top five-the annual Army-Navy game is the one rivalry that, as one commentator has noted, "e;stops the most powerful men and women in the world in their tracks for one day a year."e; It is also quite possible that it is the only rivalry to raise over $58 million in war bonds (1944 game), have an outcome so contentious that the game had to be suspended for six years by the President (1893), or be played in the Rose Bowl (1983), requiring a military "e;airlift"e; of nine thousand cadets and midshipmen to California.But Army-Navy is first and foremost about football, and as Barry Wilner and Ken Rappoport relate in this engaging history, it may be college football in its purest form-and not just as a "e;training ground for the NFL."e; Though struggling for national ranking, the service academies have done surprisingly well over the years given their recruiting handicap, producing five Heisman Trophy winners and a number of national champions. The rivalry's most successful player may have been Roger Staubach, Heisman winner and Hall of Fame quarterback, who led the Dallas Cowboys to two Super Bowls in the 1970s following his four-year mandatory service in the U.S. Navy. The Army-Navy rivalry is also about traditions, and in a concluding chapter on the 2004 game, the authors take us through the pageantry: the march into the stadium by the student bodies of both schools; freshman push-ups after each score; and the final, moving show of sportsmanship following the game as thousands of cadets and midshipmen stand at attention while the alma mater of each school is played by their respective bands. A rivalry like no other, Army versus Navy receives due recognition in this colorful, thorough history.

Autor

Barry Wilner has been a sports writer for the Associated Press since 1975. He has covered virtually every major sporting event, including nine Olympics, seven world cups, nineteen Super Bowls, the World Series, and Stanley Cup finals. He has written eighteen books.Ken Rappoport covered every major sport out of New York for thirty years and was the Associated Press's national hockey writer for thirteen years.

Inhalt

1 Acknowledgments2 Introduction3 1926, the Greatest of Them All4 The Beginnings, the 1890s5 Innovators and the Rough Rider, 1900-19096 Stop Dalton! Stop Oliphant! 1910-19197 Roaring Rivalry, 1920-19298 Crashes and Crowd-Pleasers, 1930-19399 Mr. Inside and Mr. Outside, 1940-194910 Upsets and Upheavals, 1950-195911 Navy's Heisman Heroes, 1960-196912 Mediocre Teams, Memorable Games, 1970-197913 Running to the Pros, 1980-198914 Rekindling the Rivalry, 1990-199915 Now More Than Ever, 2000-200416 War Zone: The SEAL and the Soldier17 Army-Navy Lore18 Classic Games19 Sideline Strategists20 The Stadiums: Of Bowls and Vets and Dumps21 Epilogue

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.8.2005
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Fahrrad
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
• ISBN-10: 1-4616-2605-6 / 1461626056
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4616-2605-3 / 9781461626053