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The Undefeated eBook
by Jim Dent
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| For three perfect seasons (1954-1956), the Oklahoma Sooners won every football game they played--home or away. This awesome record was the product of a genius and masterful coach named Bud Wilkinson and the spirited young men he led. "The Undefeated" details all the thrilling action on the field during this record winning streak, but it also reveals all the behind-the-scenes tumult and pressure swirling around it. More than just an exciting account of the greatest team acomplishment in college football history, "The Undefeated" is also: an absorbing character study of the brilliant, complex coach who engineered it all--Bud Wilkinson, the on-field genius whose starched-shirt public persona hid a man of many secrets; an in-depth look at a state and its people still suffering from a Depression hangover and an identity crisis, who took up the Sooners football banner almost as a religious cause; a perceptive examination of race in fifties America as seen through the microcosm of Normal, Oklahoma and the Sooners football program. Wilkinson recruited and played the first black to major college football in the South or Southwest and the ordeals that Prentice Gautt went through in order to play weren't pretty. The story of his struggles is a triumphant one, and demands to be told. "The Undefeated" combines the gritty, evocative period detail of the author's Junction Boys; the athletic heart and determination of a team as chronicled in that book and others such as Friday Night Lights; and the in-depth look at a great coach that made The Junction Boys, Season On the Brink, and When Pride Still Mattered such strong bestsellers. |
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