The Lion in Autumn: A Season with Joe Paterno and Penn State Football 1592402399

"Fascinating. . . . One of the best books ever written on the rise and fall of a great collegefootball coach." ?Allen Barra, San Francisco Chronicle The Lion in Autumn takes readers inside Penn State?s storied football program aslegendary coach Joe Paterno fights to turn his struggling team into a winner once again. In morethan a half century at Penn State, Paterno has won more bowl games (21) than any other coachand more games (354) than all but one, en route to two national championships and five perfectseasons. But in the new millennium hard times arrived in Happy Valley. His Nittany Lions hadlosing seasons in four of five years, dropping sixteen of twenty-three games in 2003 and 2004.There were boos at Beaver Stadium and increasing calls for the aging Paterno to step down.Award-winning sportswriter Frank Fitzpatrick followed JoePa through the 2004 season as thebeloved coach struggled to save himself and his storied program. Fitzpatrick trailed Paterno fromfund-raisers to the spring practices to the sidelines, detailing how the coach endured anotherlosing season while building a team that would win the Orange Bowl and compete for the nationalchampionship in 2005. Interweaving stories from past seasons into the narrative, Fitzpatrickfleshes out the legend of Paterno.

From the Back Cover "Insightful. . . . Fascinating reading." ?Chicago Tribune "A rather startling success. . . . Significant. . . . literary. . . . [Fitzpatrick] relies on his own tenacityand attention to detail with just the right amount of historical perspective." ?Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "[Demystifies] the college football coach, moving behind the spectacle of Saturday afternoon toreveal flesh and soul and humanity." ?Buz Bisinger, The New York Times "You don?t have to be a Penn State fan to appreciate it." ?ESPN.com

出版社	Gotham
作者	Frank Fitzpatrick