The Wonder Team: The Centre College Praying Colonels and Their Rise to the Top of the Football World, 1917-1924

by Robert W. Robertson Jr. and Jr.

The Wonder Team tells the story of the most famous and publicized college football team ever to play the game. Few now remember how, in the years after World War I, a small group of talented and colorful young men put Centre College, and the little town of Danville, Kentucky, on the map. The "Praying Colonels" played all over the country and, despite having only 200 students enrolled at the school, beat all the major powers of the day. Fueled by Robert...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1884532993
• ISBN13: 9781884532993
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Butler Books
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"