From the Gridiron to the Battlefield - Spewak, Danny
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This book tells the story of the University of Minnesota’s remarkable 1941 football season as they chased a second consecutive national championship even as a divided country veered closer to total war, and chronicles the young players’ contributions to the war effort in the months and years that followed.

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Produktbeschreibung
This book tells the story of the University of Minnesota’s remarkable 1941 football season as they chased a second consecutive national championship even as a divided country veered closer to total war, and chronicles the young players’ contributions to the war effort in the months and years that followed.
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Danny Spewak has more than a decade of experience as a news reporter at local television affiliates in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Buffalo, and mid-Missouri. A native of the St. Louis area, he graduated from the University of Missouri with dual degrees in journalism and political science. Spewak has also covered college sports extensively as a freelance writer, producing work that has appeared in the USA Today Network, The Huffington Post, and other online media outlets. He is the author of From the Gridiron to the Battlefield: Minnesota's March to a College Football Title and into World War II, which was a finalist for the Emilie Buchwald Award for Minnesota Nonfiction in the 2022 Minnesota Book Awards. Spewak was inspired to write this book through the story of his own grandfather, Jack Spewak, who was a member of the Gophers' freshman football team in 1941 and an Army Air Corps veteran.