When Saturday Mattered Most: The Last Golden Season of Army Football

by Mark Beech

Book Overview

"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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312548184
• ISBN13: 9780312548186
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"