A Team for America: The Army-Navy Game That Rallied a Nation Review

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A Team for America: The Army-Navy Game That Rallied a Nation ReviewIf the crisp chilly air on your cheeks, the sharp crunch of leaves underfoot, and the smell of a warm fire in the air sounds like football weather to you, you just might enjoy this one. Football is a game made for Fall as much as it is for rivalries, and the Army-Navy rivalry is an old one. But in the early 1940s Navy's dominance of Army was complete. In fact, with the war siphoning off talent everywhere, Army was losing more often than winning.
Brigadier General Robert Eichelberger worried that Army was producing "gracious losers," and brought in Earl "Red" Blaik (West Point, 1920) to turn around the team in 1940. It took him a few years but he managed to build a lineup that routinely trounced lesser opponents and eventually superior ones like Navy as well. The Army-Navy game of 1944 was watched by nearly 70,000 spectators but also broadcast to war-weary troops around the world, and went down in history as one of the great contests of the sport.
Randy Roberts has done a good job of researching and documenting the years leading up to Army's spectacular win. This is not a play-by-play account of that historic game - in fact, he doesn't even get to the game until about 200 pages into the 240 page book. And the game itself is covered in about a half-dozen pages. Instead, he focuses on Blaik's move to Army, the players he recruited, the troubles of each season, the accomplishments and the setbacks. He mixes in a little of the larger world history going on, such as D-Day, but it's mostly about football. Unfortunately, it's dragged down by a heavier emphasis on recruitment to play for Army than the actual games. The brightest parts are the action of the games, but it's too little to compete with the humdrum business of the team. I also wish it had given a little more background on how the game differs from today's contests.
It's a decent little book that's kind of fun to read at this time of year, but there's not enough excitement to really move it to a higher level of enjoyment.A Team for America: The Army-Navy Game That Rallied a Nation Overview

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