Perfect Warriors: Touchdown Tony Butkovich and the 1943 Purdue Football Team - Softcover

Palm, Cory

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798799178109

Verlag: Independently published, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Before he was Touchdown Tony, All-American, Tony Butkovich was just one of several dozen Marine trainees headed to Purdue University for officer training before joining the fight in the South Pacific. Now featured in the Netflix original film The Mosquito Bowl, take a deep dive into the season that made Touchdown Tony immortal, setting Big Ten records that would last for decades and legends that would last forever.

The 1943 Purdue Football team was unlike any in school history. A collection of future Navy and Marine officers from around the country, brought together as members of the Navy's V-12 officer training program, this talented group of men took the college football world by storm. The group included several future All-Americans, two men who would go on to be named Big Ten Player of the Year and a handful of College Football Hall of Famers.

The centerpiece of the story is a man named Tony Butkovich, a 21-year-old running back at the University of Illinois who joined the Marines after passing the exam and earning, causing him to transfer to Purdue. He and his fellow Marines would spend the mornings in the classroom and on the parade grounds training to be warriors and their afternoons on the practice field playing a game they loved. In his short time on campus in West Lafayette, Butkovich was transformed from a part-time player into an all-out legend, breaking a decades-old conference scoring record.

Heightening the drama of the season, Butkovich and nearly a dozen fellow Marine trainees were called to active duty with three weeks left in the season. In the blink of an eye, nearly a third of the team shipped to Parris Island, S.C., for basic training. Perfect Warriors tells the story, week by week, of this group of men, the challenges they faced and the obstacles they were forced to overcome. It is an exemplar of all that could be accomplished when motivated Americans came together to fight for a common goal.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798799178109
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 215
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