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The 80-Yard Run
A Twenty-Week, Coast-To-Coast Quest for the Heart of High School Football
- Author:
- By Theron Hopkins
- Format:
- Hardback
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- Published: 8th Sep 2008
- ISBN: 1602392846
- Pages: 336
From the Publisher:
Over the course of a single football season, author Theron Hopkins travels from summer practice to a row of state championships, culminating in the Texas 5A state title game in San Antonio's Alamodome. On the way, he discovers a world wreathed with Friday night lights that offers a miraculous spectacle of hope and drama in such far-flung locales as Hillsborough, North Carolina, Valentine, Nebraska, and Sutter, California. He also finds that the blinding halogen glare is only a part - and maybe not even the best part - of what makes high school football so irresistible and so important to the people who watch it, coach it, and play it.
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