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9 of 10 found the following review helpful:
Great book! Feb 24, 2006
By Michael Brown
"mbrown925"
If you follow Northwestern football, you will love getting the complete history of the program. I had no idea we had won 4 Big Ten championships in the '30's and twice almost won the national championship. This book is very well researched and extrememly thorough in its presentation.
6 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Hit 'em hard, hit 'em low, Go Northwestern go! A Purple Valentine Nov 16, 2007
By Borowy26
"Hank"
This is a fine overview of the Northwestern University Football program. Larry LaTourette provides a concise historical account of the formative years of college football in Evanston and concludes with a summary with the 2004 campaign. It takes a good deal of editorial precision and skill to compress almost one hundred and twenty-five years into an almost equal number pages (including footnotes and top quality archival photographs), but the author carries off the task successfully.
Skeptics may not accept the fact that Northwestern was once a ranking power in the Big Ten Conference and nationally (the team narrowly missed being named the National Champion by the sportswriters twice, including an inexplicable decision to award the honor to second place Minnesota -- a team that first place NU had beaten that same year!), but it is the truth. Northwestern enjoyed a full decade of success beginning in the Twenties and which continued into the Thirties as the Wildcats captured four Big Ten titles. A surprise Rose Bowl triumph occurred in 1949. The program maintained respectability through the Sixties, but languished thereafter and soon became a laughingstock that did not have a winning record for twenty-four consecutive years.
Not much time is allotted to discussing the constant difficulties faced by Northwestern as the dominant state sponsored universities grew larger and more powerful which put Northwestern at a huge competitive disadvantage, in terms of athletic budgets, marketing, recruiting, television and radio coverage and in on field competition. Moreover, Northwestern has always required that its student athletes conform to high academic standards. Not all college football programs can make that same claim. To repeat a quotation from Henry Ward Beecher cited in the text: "Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting."
Conference officials may have been prepared to sacrifice Northwestern, a charter member of the Big Ten, and remove the team from the league, but the scrappy Wildcats began to win consistently at the same approximate time. How politically astute would it be to remove a recent conference champion for being uncompetitive? The book concludes by describing the miraculous storybook revival of the program under the talented (and controversial) Gary Barnett and his immediate successor, the late Randy Walker whose untimely death occurred shortly before the 2006 season. Hollywood could not have scripted movies to equal the heroics of the dramatic 1995, 1996 and 2000 seasons.
LaTourette does not miss a key play in this last chapter. I know this to be true since, as a season ticketholder since 1995, I attended all of the memorable home games, several of the road games and four of the postseason bowl games described in these pages. I have not missed a home game in thirteen years and can still recall when the new head coach Pat Fitzgerald was an outstanding linebacker!
Among the entertaining anecdotes from the Golden Era recounted here is an account of the irate NU fans who spotted Al Capone in the stands at Dyche Stadium. Their subsequent serenade of Bronx cheers caused the notorious gangster to make an impromptu exit. The campus newspaper followed up with an editorial demand that Capone not return!
This book would make a great gift for ANYONE who enjoys spending Saturdays following college football. The text is well written and it is fun to read.
Great! Jan 30, 2010
By L. C. Sundheim
It's almost like a history textbook of Northwestern Football. It's extremely well done! I hope that it is updated in the next few years to include the Pat Fitz era, but this is a must have for any NU fan.
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