Team for America: The Army-Navy Game That Rallied a Nation at War

by Randy W. Roberts

Book Overview

"A rousing celebration of a moment in history when college football was more than metaphor and entertainment, it was a gritty sidebar to real war." -- Robert Lipsyte, author of An Accidental Sportswriter

Each year the Army and Navy football teams meet for one epic game. Across the nation, fans tune in to see who will emerge victorious. But no game will ever match the one that was played on December 2, 1944. America was in the midst of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0547844603
• ISBN13: 9780547844602
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 7.9"