Civil War: A Year Inside College Football's Purest Rivalry - Hardcover

Feinstein, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316277363 ISBN 13: 9780316277365

Publisher: Little, Brown US, 1997

Synopsis

A CIVIL WAR is an unforgettable portrait of college football in the purest form: two teams that play for the love of the game and for the honour of their respective schools, rather than for money or fame. As Feinstein follows the Army and Navy football teams through a single season, he takes us into the locker rooms, onto the playing fields and inside the lives of the players and coaches. His book captures the personalities and the behind-the-scenes struggles - culminates in a vivid account of the teams' dramatic December face-off, a stratling come-from-behind victory that resulted in a daredevil fourth-down touchdown attempt.

In a new afterword to the paperback edition, Feinstein reflects on the extraordinary 1996 season, which saw both teams achieve their best records in decades and win bowl-game berths

About this title

Review:

The best college football story of 1995 was the Army-Navy matchup....The climax of the book is a heart-stopping descrption of that hair-raising game. (CHICAGO SUN-TIMES)

Book Description:

* A fierce gridiron rivalry comes dramatically to life - as America's favourite sportswriter does for college football what he did for golf in A GOOD WALK SPOILED.

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown US
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0316277363
• ISBN 13: 9780316277365
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320