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Yale's Ironmen: A Story of Football & Lives in The Decade of The Depression & Beyond
by William N. Wallace, 1945W
- Eleven football players overcame the Depression, pretentious Princeton, World War II, and life's battles without relief, without substitutes. Their date with destiny? November 17, 1934, the last time a starting eleven played all 60 minutes in a major college game.
- Yale's was an ordinary team, 3-3 in past games. Princeton had not lost in two years; was a 5-to-1 favorite and touted as a Rose Bowl candidate. A fumble on the opening kickoff became an omen. But who knew? Larry Kelley, the first Heisman Trophy winner, caught the winning touchdown pass in a 7-0 victory. Three goal-line stands followed.
- In time these young men were swept into World War II and thereafter into a variety of careers, some ending in tragedy. One, an Army pilot, was killed before Pearl Harbor.
- For 10-year-old Bill Wallace, among 53,000 spectators at Palmer Stadium, the Ironmen never went away as he pursued a sportswriting career that endured for half a century.
- Football's impact diminished over time at Princeton and Yale. The author, a retired N.Y. Times sportswriter who covered Ivy League football since its 1956 start, tells how and why.
On sale now at major bookstores including the Barnes & Noble at Yale University.
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