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THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS SEPTEMBER 2012<br />
When Saturday Mattered Most<br />
The Last Golden Season of Army Football<br />
Mark Beech<br />
The stirring story of the 1958 undefeated Army football team and the<br />
controversial coach who inspired Vince Lombardi<br />
It was the end of an era, the last season before the surge of professional<br />
football began to lure the nation's best young student-athletes away from the<br />
military academies. That fall, the Black Knights of Army were the class of the<br />
nation. Mark Beech, a second-generation West Pointer, recounts this memorable<br />
and never-to-be-repeated season with:<br />
SPORTS & RECREATION /<br />
FOOTBALL<br />
Thomas Dunne <strong>Books</strong> | September 2012<br />
9780312548186 | $25.99/$29.99 Can.<br />
Hardback | 304 pages | Carton Qty: 20<br />
9.25in H | 6.13in W<br />
Includes 3 illustrations plus one 8-page b&w<br />
photo insert<br />
Other Available Formats:<br />
Ebook ISBN: 9781250013569<br />
MARKETING<br />
* National Sports Radio Campaign<br />
* Online Promotion<br />
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* Available as an E-Book: 978-1-250-<br />
01356-9<br />
• Pete Dawkins, the Heisman Trophy winner who rose to the rank of<br />
Brigadier General<br />
• The long-reclusive Bill Carpenter, the fabled "lonesome end" who earned<br />
the Distinguished Service Cross for saving his company in Vietnam<br />
• Red Blaik, who led Army back to glory after the cribbing scandal and had<br />
the field at Michie Stadium named in his honor<br />
Combining the triumph of The Junction Boys with the heroics of The Long Gray<br />
Line, Beech captures a unique period in the history of football, the military, and<br />
mid-twentieth-century America.<br />
PRAISE<br />
"Take a drive up the Hudson River in the Fall of 1958 to watch the best football players<br />
in the country play on the best football team in the country for the best football coach in<br />
the country. This is a special season, never to be repeated." —Leigh Montville, New York<br />
Times bestselling author<br />
"Mark Beech does way more than make your skin tingle." —Joe Drape, New York<br />
Times bestselling author<br />
"A year touched by grace and ending in glory." —William Nack, author of Secretariat:<br />
The Making of a Champion<br />
MARK BEECH has worked as an editor and writer at Sports Illustrated for twelve years. He lives<br />
in Larchmont, New York.<br />
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