Gary Youmans and Maury Youmans
Cloth $24.95 | 0-8156-8139-9 | 2004
This is the story of a group of unheralded athletes driven to the pinnacle of college football by a hard-nosed coach whose style was right for the times.
Description
This inside look at college football in 1959 follows the Syracuse University football team through their remarkable season. Led by a team captain, who as a young boy in Nazi Germany survived World War II, this improbable tale is at times humorous, other times poignant, but always brutally honest. It is a look back at a young black kid by the name of Ernie Davis, who would blaze a trail and then, tragically, be gone. At the tail end of a decade so rich in culture, we find this unique blend of young men coming together to create a lasting moment in time.
Author
Gary Youmans is a sports marketing consultant and coached professionally in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) and in Canada.
Maury Youmans, director of Sports Marketing for Rosser International, Inc., was a member of the 1959 Syracuse University Championship football team. He played in the NFL for six years before retiring in 1965.
6 x 9, 256 pages, 62 illustrations
Distributed for Campbell Road Press
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