Stadium Stories
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
Van Brimmer, Adam
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BOOK SUMMARY
Sportswriter Adam Van Brimmer takes Georgia Tech fans through the highs and lows of Yellow Jacket football in this book of stories, photos, and anecdotes
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The Yellow Jackets of Georgia Tech trace their football roots back to head coach John Heisman (of trophy fame), and they've been a national powerhouse ever since. From their fierce rivalry with the Bulldogs of Georgia to colorful players and coaches such as Eddie Lee Ivery, Bobby Dodd, Kim King, and three generations of Rhinos, this book is a treasure trove of Georgia Tech's glorious football past.
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Thrilling victories, crushing defeats, comical mishaps, and colorful coaches, players, and fansthese are the legendary moments and larger-than-life personalities that have made the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets a gridiron favorite.
In Stadium Stories: Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, journalist Adam Van Brimmer shares his favorite memories of this beloved team. Together youll relive the highs and lows and become reacquainted with some of the teams all-time greatest heroes and legends, including:
John Heisman, visionary coach of the early 1900s and namesake of the prestigious Heisman Trophy
Roy Wrong Way Riegels, a UCLA player who unwittingly earned a place in Yellow Jackets football history
The marvelous, magical 1990 national championship season
Georgia Techs annual bloodletting battles with the Georgia Bulldogs
AUTHOR BIO
Adam Van Brimmer has been a college football beat writer since the mid-1990s, spending much of that time covering the Ohio State Buckeyes in his hometown of Columbus. He has been on the Georgia Tech beat for the past two seasons for the Morris Communications news bureau in Atlanta.
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Atlanta's best Saturday afternoons all start the same way: with a gold-and-white 1930 Ford Model A Cabriolet charging across the bright green grass of Grant Field.
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ISBN: 0762740205
ISBN(13-digit): 9780762740208
Dewey Decimal: 796.332/6309758231
Library of Congress: 2006041813
Book Publisher: Globe Pequot Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 161
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