Appalachian State Silences the Big House: Behind the Greatest Upset in College Football History

by David J. Marmins, Steven K. Feit

Overview

They are known as "cupcake games"—lower division teams get paid to travel to college football Meccas where the hosts make a nice profit from an extra game. On September 1, 2007, the University of Michigan Wolverines, with more wins than any team in history, hosted the Appalachian State Mountaineers from Boone, North Carolina, in the first such game at Michigan Stadium, the largest stadium in the country.

App State was no cupcake. Coach Jerry Moore, in the spirit of the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team and other memorable underdogs, assembled his team with two things in mind—speed and character—and conditioned them to the breaking point. "We're fixin' to shock 'em," he shouted at practice, in the locker room, at the dinner table. This book tells the inside story of Moore's legendary team and the Mountaineers' historic win.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476664972
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	07/05/2017
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

David J. Marmins is a civil litigation partner at Atlanta’s Arnall Golden Gregory, LLP. He was an award winning college newspaper editor and reporter and is the editor of the legal treatise, Georgia Nuisance Law. He lives in Smyrna, Georgia. Steven K. Feit was an award-winning college sportswriter, whose career in sports has consisted of public relations, merchandising, marketing, logistics, and game-day operations for a variety of clients and teams. He has served in the front office of the Harlem Globetrotters for the past decade. He lives in Duluth, Georgia.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments deleteix
Preface
1. “Let’s Go Beat Michigan!”
2. Speed and Character
3. “Who’s Gonna Grab That Axe?”
4. A Steady Diet of Hart, Kraus and Long
5. Jerry Moore: Blueprint for Success
6. Henne Feels the BAM!
7. Pierre Banks: Full House
8. “I Just Scored in the Big House!”
9. Hans Batichon: A Haitian Love Story
10. “They Ain’t Got a Clue!”
11. John Holt: “I Like Wild Meat”
12. Saturday in the Park
13. Corey Lynch: A Fisher of Men
14. The French Connection Strikes Again
15. Armanti Edwards: Money
16. Hart Showing Heart
17. Jerome Touchstone: It Takes a Village
18. The Nation Takes Notice
19. Nic Cardwell: Salvation and Forgiveness
20. “That Armanti Magic”
21. Julian Rauch: The Hebrew Hammer
22. “Yard Sale at the Big House!”
Epilogue: Love Brings Change
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

a valuable addition to the library of any college football fan”—Sport in American History; “probably the most comprehensive work yet on the game and is one that Mountaineer fans and most college football enthusiasts would love to add to their libraries”—High Country Magazine; “detailed…a thorough depth of research…captures the moment in time quite well…the authors do a masterful job of capturing the emotion…valuable”—US Sport History; “Marmins and Feit describe the life stories of the head coach Jerry Moore and players of the Mountaineers, as well as their training and the play-by-play of the game”—ProtoView.

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