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Heisman's First Trophy: The Game that Launched Football In the South
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher Price: $21.00
ISBN13: 9781936487332
Publisher: Franklin Green Pub
Published: Oct 12 2021
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
The story about the most lopsided, highest scoring football game ever played as prominently featured by broadcast media including ESPN, the CBS Sports Network, National Public Radio, and in a number of print publications including metropolitan daily newspapers and periodicals nationwide.
Heisman's First Trophy is a riveting novel based on a true story featuring romance, greed and revenge about a historically significant college football game played more than 100 years ago credited with changing the way the national media at the time viewed college football in the South.
On a mission to save their beloved alma mater from financial demise, a handful of Kappa Sig fraternity brothers, representing tiny Cumberland University, boarded a train in Lebanon, Tennessee and traveled to Atlanta to play a monstrous Georgia Tech team coached by the legendary John Heisman.
The game, which remarkably saw no first downs and had a number of twists and turns, ended with Tech winning 222-0, a record score that remains still today in college football.
Tech's win put Coach Heisman on a path to his first national championship, saved Cumberland from likely having to close its doors forever, and changed the perception of a nation about the quality of football being played in the South.
From the cost of a bottle of Jack Daniels in 1916 to why Tech withdrew from the SEC in 1963, Heisman's First Trophy is consumed with history about the game of foot- ball, its legends, special events and memorable games.
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