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With the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, dreams of young men and women across the nation were sidelined while the country prepared for war. This was true, too, of Coaches Paul 'Bear' Bryant, Carney Laslie, and Frank Moseley, three friends and former football teammates from the University of Alabama. Their plans to coach football together upended, they instead were selected to be part of a little-known contingent of fast-tracked ace coaches turned naval officers known as the '90-Day Wonders.' The tough, military-style team conditioning they implemented at the Navy's Pre-Flight Training Centers resulted in a US fighting force which became known for being the toughest in the world. Post-war, the three men reunited again, taking their brand of coaching to collegiate teams and transforming them into national champions. Spanning the 1920s until 1961, A Tide of Dreams is not so much about the game of college football as it is about friendship and loyalty, aspirations and dreams,

Author : Carey Henry Keefe

Pages : 378 pages

Publisher : Koehler Books

Language : eng

ISBN-10 : 1646636872

ISBN-13 : 9781646636877