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...Corbett cites one primary source he found as a major inspiration throughout the writing of the book, making the analogy of “Linus with a security blanket”: a letter from 1892, written by James Kivlan of Notre Dame to Yale’s Coach Walter Camp...
...book’s breadth is evidence of the extensive research and interviews conducted by the authors. “One of the things we realized in our research,” Corbett says, “if this book was a DVD, we’d have an extra disk of stuff that ended up on the cutting room floor...
...authors went into the 2002 season with no expectations of how it would stand out from the 118 before it, but as Corbett asserts, “you put yourself in that position to chronicle a season, something is bound to happen...
Captain Jason Lange of the Yale roster stood out as not only a strong quarterback, but, as Corbett calls him, “the real poster boy of everything that has been great from Ivy League since the beginning…certainly a renaissance...
...this personal approach that makes the book so readable. While the on-field descriptions are written with the play-by-play style that is customary to sports announcers like Corbett, no real knowledge of football is necessary to genuinely appreciate this survey of the sport and exploration of character. ESPN fans, for whom vocabulary like “inside reverse run” is second nature, may appreciate the book on an additional level...