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GAME CHANGERS: ALABAMA: The Greatest Plays in Alabama Football History
Author(s): Unknown (Author)
- Publisher: INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS GROUP
- Publication Date: 1 Oct. 2009
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 1 pages
- ISBN-10: 1600782604
- ISBN-13: 9781600782602
Book Description
For serious football fans wanting to relive the most unforgettable, extraordinary, and gut-wrenching moments in Alabama’s history, this account explores the team’s greatest plays, providing context, back story, relevant circumstances, and comments from those directly involved in each play. Photos help reanimate memories, including offensive lineman Jerry Duncan’s unlikely catch to help beat Nebraska in the 1966 Orange Bowl, the goal-line stand against Penn State that preserved the 1978 National Championship, George Teague ripping the ball away from Miami’s Lamar Thomas in the 1993 Sugar Bowl, and Tyrone Prothro’s miraculous 2005 catch in a come-from-behind victory against Southern Mississippi.
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From the Back Cover
This exciting new series relives in dramatic and illuminating fashion the most unforgettable, extraordinary, and gut-wrenching moments in football history. Explore your favorite team’s greatest plays, involving many of the greatest players, in a way no other book ever has. The author provides the fascinating context for each of the plays, the back story, all the relevant circumstances, and the thoughts of many of those directly involved in the play. Including photos that help you follow the play as it unfolds, Game Changers reanimates many of the most thrilling and heart-stopping moments in football.
About the Author
Kirk McNair is the founder of ‘Bama magazine and BamaMag.com, which he started in 1979 after serving as sports information director at the University of Alabama. He has won national awards for both sports information and sportswriting. He is the former president of the National Collegiate Sportswriters and Alabama Sportswriters associations.
