Research Catalog

Title

Must win : a season of survival for a town and its team / Drew Jubera.

Author

Jubera, Drew

Publication

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2012.

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Details

Description

x, 318 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

"The inspiring tale of how a coach with a grand vision and even bigger heart plucked his players out of jail and off the farm and made them believe they were champions as they returned Valdosta to its rightful place as one of the most storied programs in high school football.

Subject

• Football > Valdosta > History
• High school athletes > Valdosta > History
• School sports > Valdosta > History
• Valdosta (Ga.) > History
• Valdosta (Ga.) > Social life and customs

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Prologue : what it means here or Thug tears -- Welcome or Your grave is ready, coach -- Hand me my traveling shoes or Home -- A brief, 200-million-year history or Beaches! Whales! Gnats! Lynchings! -- The trinity or Gucci Mane, Young Jeezy, Eminem -- Building a team or Anybody eligible? -- Living and dying in Valdosta or "What's going on down there?" -- One-armed white jihadi or Nub -- Pick one. The white one or The gospel of football -- The firm or Feeding his soul -- Do it again! or Hell -- Rome the elder and Rome the younger or Royalty -- God, family, football or Road-tripping to the swamp -- Getting crunk or We ready! -- Hero worship or Can I Google you? -- Quarterbacks and comebacks or Turn it up a little higher -- Saturday night lights or Bumpin' with the principal -- The content of their character or MLK in the ATL -- Thugs vs. plowboys or Winnersville, baby! -- Boosters, 'cruiters, funerals or Grinding -- Pretty boys and mohawks or Back in the ATL -- Shooting deer, giving thanks, waging war, moving on or The 229 forever -- Epilogue.

ISBN

• 9780312642204 (hardcover)
• 0312642202 (hardcover)

LCCN

^^2012026407

OCLC

778422016

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library