Red Cagle: West Point's Three-Time All-American

by Cathy C. Post

Overview

Chris Cagle, nicknamed "Red" after Red Grange, was a football phenom in the 1920s. When Notre Dame's Knute Rockne gave his famous "win one for the Gipper" speech, he was talking about beating Cagle and West Point. This fascinating biography of the Louisiana native is a rousing tale of athletic competition, fateful young love, and an untimely, mysterious death, based on interviews with Cagle's few surviving relatives and hundreds of documents, newspapers articles, and archival film.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781455625154
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	10/15/2019
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	1,103,760
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Cathy Post is a graduate of McNeese State University, a retired high school and kindergarten teacher, and a former legal secretary for the district attorney and Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Lake Charles, Louisiana. A native of Cameron Parish, Louisiana, Mrs. Post and her husband now live in Las Vegas, Nevada. Her family is one of the six chronicled in this true account.

Table of Contents

Preface 4

Chapter 1 Calibrating the Moral Compass 5

Chapter 2 Cadet Cagle 15

Chapter 3 Army Football 24

Chapter 4 1927 Winter and Summer 40

Chapter 5 1927 Army Football-Onward, Christian Cagle! 47

Chapter 6 First Furlough 59

Chapter 7 Win One for the Gipper 64

Chapter 8 1928 Nebraska and Pop Warner 74

Chapter 9 Second Honeymoon 81

Chapter 10 The Highest Heights 91

Chapter 11 For the Boys 109

Chapter 12 Feet of Clay 119

Chapter 13 And the Truth Shall Set You Free 130

Chapter 14 Fallout 136

Chapter 15 The Giants 143

Chapter 16 The Brooklyn Dodgers 152

Chapter 17 War 169

Chapter 18 Nassau Station 175

Chapter 19 The Long Road Home 180

Epilogue 183

Acknowledgments 194

Appendix 197

Bibliography 198

Index 204