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The Junction Boys
Jim Dent
How Ten Days In Hell With Bear Bryant Forged A Championship Team
St. Martin's Griffin
September 2000
On Sale: September 9, 2000
304 pages
ISBN: 031226755X
EAN: 9780312267551
Kindle: B003L1ZZDW
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Non-Fiction Biography
The legendary Paul "Bear" Bryant is recognized nationwide as
one of the greatest coaches ever. So why did he always cite
his 1-9 A&M team of 1954 as his favorite? This is the
story of a remarkable team – and the beginning of the
legend.
The Junction Boys tells the story of
Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant's legendary training camp in the
small town of Junction, Texas. In a move that many consider
the salvation of the Texas A&M football program, Coach
Bryant put 115 players through the most grueling practices
ever imagined. Only a handful of players survived the entire
10 days, but they braved the intense heat of the Texas sun
and the burning passion of their coach, and turned a
floundering team into one of the nation's best. The
Junction Boys is more than just a story of tough
practices without water breaks. An extraordinary fellowship
was forged from the mind-numbing pain. The thirty-five
survivors bonded together like no other team in America.
They profited from the Junction experience; the knowledge
they took back with them to College Station, about
themselves and what they were capable of, would be used for
the rest of their lives.
In vivid and powerful
images reminiscent of Friday Night Lights, Hoosiers,
and The Last Picture Show, these young men and their
driven coach come to life. The Junction Boys contains
all the hallmarks of a classic sports story, and it combines
America's love of college football with an extraordinary
story of perseverance and triumph.
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