Publisher's Synopsis
The book is written for those of us who love the Gator Nation and Florida Gators football. You'll like the story about the University of Florida's founding in 1853 over 160 year ago and you will like it even more when we start talking about football. UF's first official football game was in 1906 but the "lads" had been fooling around on campus with weird shaped oval balls well before then as football was becoming a mature sport in America. It took until 1906 for an official UF team to emerge with its first coach Jack Forsythe and his Minnesota Shift Offense. From here, the book moves you through the Charley Pell era and to the Steve Spurrier days as both a Heisman level player and then a great coach. It finishes by looking through the seasons of Urban Meyer, Ron Zook, Will Muschamp of course on to the current season with Coach James McElwain. The history of Gator football as told here is just fascinating. This book captures the many great moments in Gator Football. We look at every game in every season and we take the reader through great chapters about Florida's 25 coaches to great stories about 110 seasons worth of great games (1169 games). The book often stops in time and talks about a particular great player. such as Steve Spurrier, Jack Youngblood, Emmitt Smith, Danny Wuerffel, Tim Tebow, Percy Harvin and others; or a great coach who won a national championship or two. The stories are riveting. This book is the closest thing to an all-encompassing, full-blown encyclopedia of Gator football-a blow by blow history-with tales of the great moments. We capture all the action and all the memorable moments in the 110 great years of Florida Gator football. We even cover 1943, when the Gators had no team because of WWII. This book is your finest source for a great read on your favorite college football team as well as a great reference for when you want to see how a particular game in any year happened to turn out. If you are a Gators fan, YOU will not want to put this book down.
