A team for America
Subtitle: when West Point football rallied a nation at war
By: Randy Roberts
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780547511061
Subjects: United States Military Academy; SPORTS & RECREATION / History; World War, 1939-1945; SPORTS & RECREATION / Football; United States Naval Academy; Football; Influence; Sports rivalries; History
Description: Chronicles the 1944 Army-Navy football game against a backdrop of World War II, the deteriorating health of the president, and food shortages, in an account based on interviews with surviving players that offers insight into how the game united and uplifted a struggling nation.