Dr. Eddie Anderson, Hall of Fame College Football Coach: A Biography
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (747 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0786430079 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 324 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Throughout his career, dignity, composure and a penetrating focus were hallmarks of his sideline decorum. Anderson is a football icon not only for the indelible impression he made on hundreds of young men who had played for him but also for his role as one of the last of an era of gentlemen coaches who had cut their teeth on football during the Rockne era. On the eve of his retirement from college football in 1964, Dr. Simultaneously he devoted himself to the practice of medicine and guided his teams to
Kevin Carroll is the head football coach and a history teacher at Albuquerque Academy in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Give Another Hoya! David A. Lynch By John Gearan, an excerpt from Holy Cross Magazine, Spring 2007, Vol 41, Number 2Buster Carroll, a denizen of an Irish enclave in Queens, loved his heritage, his family, his country passionately.Buster was a die-hard Notre Dame fan, a loyal member of its famed football fraternity known as the "subway alumni." He knew everything about the Fighting Irish and the oft-exaggerated exploits of legends such as Knute Rockne, The Gipper and The Four Horsemen.In the early '60s, his son Kevin, a member of Holy Cross' last all-male class of 1972, remembers he. Jonathon Brown said Excellent study of a relative "unknown" in football history. As an avid fan of football history, I was quite pleased with Mr. Carroll's biography of Dr. Eddie Anderson. The story itself is one that I am certain few have been told, however the characters that are intertwined into the life of this "gentleman coach" are ones that shape the landscape of many of college football's most storied program. In terms of the book iteslf, I was especially impressed with the depth of research that Carroll undertook to flesh out the details relating to Dr. Anderson's former teammates and players. I would reccomend this boo. Dan Entwisle said another gem from Kevin Carroll. In this excellent biography of Dr. Eddie Anderson, Mr. Carroll shows painstaking research and a knowing eye for what makes football teams click. Written with deep respect for the coach and for the enterprise of football itself, the book includes many fascinating details that a less skilled biographer might not include. I enjoyed the occasional humor too. This is a bygone era, one worth remembering, and with Mr. Carroll's help we can do just that and gain new insight along the way.
About the AuthorKevin Carroll is the head football coach and a history teacher at Albuquerque Academy in Albuquerque, New Mexico.