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100 1  Roberts, Randy,|d1951- 
245 12 A team for America :|bthe Army-Navy game that rallied a 
       nation /|cRandy Roberts. 
264  1 Boston :|bHoughton Mifflin Harcourt,|c2011. 
300    xvii, 268 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-257) and 
       index. 
505 0  A week in November -- Where the most football games are 
       lost -- A few good boys -- Lost teeth and lost chances -- 
       "God gave me that" -- Making the grade -- Historic hours -
       - "I've just seen Superman" -- Warm-up -- Payback -- Cause
       for thanksgiving -- A game for America -- After the 1944 
       season. 
520 0  One of the greatest stories in American sports history: 
       how the 1944 Army team beat Navy, captured a championship,
       and inspired a nation at war. ?There never has been a 
       sports event, perhaps never an event of any kind, that 
       received the attention of so many Americans in so many 
       places around the world.? So wrote a reporter on December 
       2, 1944, about the greatest Army-Navy football game in the
       long history of that storied rivalry. World War II raged; 
       President Roosevelt was seriously ill, only a few months 
       away from death; and Americans on the home front suffered 
       through shortages?including, just days before the game, a 
       Thanksgiving without turkey or pie. But for one day, all 
       that was forgotten. Army?s team was ranked number 1, 
       Navy?s number 2. Army?s years of football misery had been 
       lifted by a wartime team and a brilliant coach who made 
       them a contender. If they beat Navy, they would be 
       national champions. For a few short hours the war seemed 
       to stop, as U.S. soldiers around the world tuned in to a 
       broadcast of the game and turned their thoughts toward 
       home. Randy Roberts has interviewed surviving players and 
       coaches for nearly a decade to bring to life one of the 
       most memorable stories in all of American sports. For 
       three years, Army football upperclassmen had graduated and
       joined the fight, from Normandy beaches to Pacific atolls.
       For three hours, their alma mater gave them back one 
       unforgettable performance.--cProvided by Publisher. 
610 20 United States Military Academy|xFootball|xHistory. 
610 20 United States Naval Academy|xFootball|xHistory. 
650  0 Football|zUnited States|xHistory. 
650  0 Sports rivalries|zUnited States. 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|xInfluence. 
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