Publisher's Synopsis
This book is written for those of us who love College Football played by the greatest teams in the history of the sport. This book covers all the Championship teams from Yale to Harvard to Alabama, Florida, Army, Navy, Air Force, Notre Dame, Penn State, LSU, Clemson, Syracuse, and others. Those of you who like one team or another better than another team or another will find stories you will definitely enjoy. This book is a fun read, but it will also help you get a leg up on many of the great facts about college football that you wish you had when the "football-know-it-all" is in the room.The book first tells the story about your favorite team's founding in the 1800's and it quickly gets to the first football game in America in 1869. From there, the progression leads, to your favorite team's or your brother or sister's favorite team's first football game at some time after 1867. The book discusses the games college's played without a coach and moves to the games with the first coaches and how their first teams did so well in the early days. Yes, we look at the immortals from the beginning of football today.Whether the coach is Bear Bryant, Ben Schwartzwalder, Ara Parseghian, Lou Holtz, Steve Spurrier, Les Miles, Rip Engle, Bob Higgins, Knute Rockne, Jesse Harper, Joe Paterno, Bobby Bowden, Nick Saban, Dabo Swinney, Paul Pasqualoni, Red Blaik, Wayne Hardin, Eddy Erdelatz, Tom Osborne, Frank Broyles, Fisher DeBerry, Lou Holtz, Dan Devine, Ed Orgeron, Paul Dietzel, or another immortal legendary figure, this books tells you about them.This book captures the great moments in all of college football from its beginning through great players and coaches from 1869 to 2021. It takes the reader through stories about the nation's best football coaches and others to great stories about all the great seasons worth of great games by all the recognized great teams. The book often stops in time and talks about a particular player such as Johnny Lujack, Joe Bellino, Glenn Davis, Roger Staubach, Doc Blanchard, Bob Mischak, Paul Hornung, Jim Brown, Floyd Little, Tony Rice, Johnny Lattner, Kerry Collins, Pete Dawkins, Joe Burrow, Joe Montana, or Joe Theismann. You cannot get enough of college football players' greatness, but we try in this book. You will not be able to put this book down
