A Team For America: The Army-Navy Game That Rallied a Nation at War-Fast Shipping

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“A rousing celebration of a moment in history when college footballwas more than metaphor and entertainment, it was a gritty sidebar toreal war.” — Robert Lipsyte, author of An Accidental Sportswriter

Each year the Army and Navy football teams meet for one epic the nation, fans tune in to see who will emerge victorious. Butno game will ever match the one that was played on December 2, was in the midst of World War II: soldiers and sailors weredying around the globe, and the home front suffered through for one day, all that was forgotten.

Navy’s team was ranked number two, Army’s number one and on the verge ofbecoming national champions. Everywhere, the war stopped as soldierslistened to the broadcast. Randy Roberts has interviewed the survivingplayers and coaches, bringing their stories to life. For three years,military upperclassmen graduated and joined the fight. For three hours,their alma mater gave them back one unforgettable performance.

“The story of Army’s celebrated 1944 national championship team is afascinating one, and its victory over Navy that year is remembered asone of college football’s greatest games. But Randy Roberts’s A Team for Americatells an even greater story. It is a story of our country. Of a timewhen college football — and this remarkable Army team — helped rekindlehope and confidence throughout the land.” — Brigadier General Peter , U.S. Army (Ret.), 1958 Heisman Trophy winner, West Point

“Roberts brings a historian’s thoroughness to the subject . . . Afascinating time in American collegiate sports history.” — KirkusReviews