When Saturday Mattered Most: The Last Golden Season of Army Football
Sep 2012 · Macmillan
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The Inspiring True Story of Army's Undefeated 1958 Football Team and the Controversial Coach Who Inspired Vince Lombardi
When Saturday Mattered Most is the stirring story of the 1958 undefeated Army football team and the controversial coach who inspired Vince Lombardi. It was the end of an era, the last season before the surge of professional football began to lure the nation's best young student-athletes away from the military academies. That fall, the Black Knights of Army were the class of the nation.
Mark Beech, a second-generation West Pointer, recounts this memorable and never-to-be-repeated season with key figures such as Pete Dawkins, the Heisman Trophy winner who rose to the rank of Brigadier General, Bill Carpenter, the fabled "lonesome end" who earned the Distinguished Service Cross for heroics in Vietnam, and Red Blaik, the coach who led Army back to glory after a cribbing scandal.
Combining the triumph of The Junction Boys with the heroics of The Long Gray Line, Beech captures a unique period in the history of college football, the military, and mid-twentieth-century America. A must-read for sports fans and history buffs alike.
When Saturday Mattered Most is the stirring story of the 1958 undefeated Army football team and the controversial coach who inspired Vince Lombardi. It was the end of an era, the last season before the surge of professional football began to lure the nation's best young student-athletes away from the military academies. That fall, the Black Knights of Army were the class of the nation.
Mark Beech, a second-generation West Pointer, recounts this memorable and never-to-be-repeated season with key figures such as Pete Dawkins, the Heisman Trophy winner who rose to the rank of Brigadier General, Bill Carpenter, the fabled "lonesome end" who earned the Distinguished Service Cross for heroics in Vietnam, and Red Blaik, the coach who led Army back to glory after a cribbing scandal.
Combining the triumph of The Junction Boys with the heroics of The Long Gray Line, Beech captures a unique period in the history of college football, the military, and mid-twentieth-century America. A must-read for sports fans and history buffs alike.
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Mark Beech is an editor at Sports Illustrated, where he spent nearly a decade covering college football. He is the author of the book When Saturday Mattered Most: The Last Golden Season of Army Football. He has also written about a wide range of other sports, including college basketball, horse racing and NASCAR. A second-generation West Point graduate, he spent five years as an officer in the U.S. Army before turning to journalism. He lives with his family in Westchester County, New York.
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