[book itself is flawless; jacket shows just a touch of surface wear, some minor wrinkling/creasing at bottom of rear panel]. (B&W photographs) "An in-depth review of the school's century of excellence. Each season is captured through compelling narratives and historical photos. You will learn about some of the state's highest scoring games, the national championship game never played because of racial strife, battles against state colleges, the career of two-time All-American quarterback Houston Nutt, the unbelievable championship run of Coach Wilson Matthews and much more. This is muc... View More...
[solid copy, a bit of wear to covers at top and bottom edges, light offsetting to endpapers, light soiling to top page edges; jacket lightly soiled and spotted both internally and externally, and a previous owner saw fit to "reinforce" it with scotch tape along the top and bottom edges]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED ("To John") and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. Gabriel, the All-Pro quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams -- (an interlude, while you try to remember when the Rams played in L.A., or when any pro football team played in L.A., for that matter) -- "opens his dia... View More...
[nice tight clean copy, appears unread, a couple of extremely light dents in top edges of covers; jacket shows only some very minor wrinkling at top of rear panel]. (B&W photographs) Memoir by the Heisman Trophy-winning running back who went on to become an NFL star for the Green Bay Packers, under legendary coach Vince Lombardi. However, his off-the-field partying, girl-chasing and gambling eventually caught up with him, and at the height of his career he was caught up in a gambling scandal and suspended from the NFL for a year. (This was a very big deal, I seem to remember -- I was ten ye... View More...
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