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Book SynopsisNarrates Tony Barnhart’s experience with integration in small-town Georgia as a member of Greene County’s first integrated football team. The sportswriter, also known as Mr College Football, details the Tigers’ surprisingly successful season, the enduring relationships he formed with his teammates, and the difficulties of school sports integration.
Trade ReviewGoogle ‘Mr. College Football,’ and only Tony Barnhart pops up. Barnhart has established himself with superb writing, copious research, and great integrity over a lifetime of sports journalism. I can think of no one else who has earned the respect of virtually every competitor, fan, and administrator. His role in the beginning of the blending of white and African American student-athletes is a story that must be told. The forming of his unique high school team is an important marker in racial progress. The fact of a championship shaped from the nightmare of racism is the triumph of the human spirit. The writing of this beautiful book is the gift of a genius who was there for all of it. Read it with care—your life will never be quite the same." - Bill Curry, former head football coach at Georgia Tech, Alabama, Kentucky, and Georgia State
