I know this is shameless self-promotion but it is also directly related to the subject of this board... but my book "Respectable Roughnecks: The True Story of a Forgotten Champion" comes out later this week on Amazon. It will be available in hardback and eBook. I was fortunate enough to have Coach Gary Pinkel write the foreword for it.
This is the only written account of the true story of Mizzou's national champion-caliber team and is the result of countless hours of interviews with the players (many of whom are now deceased, but I started the research back in 2014), reels of microfilm newspaper articles from the bowels of Ellis Library when it served as the Missouri State Historical Society, and public records from Mizzou and the University of kansas. If you know anything about this season, you'll know kansas factors into it in a big way.
If you are interested in sports history or Mizzou, I think you'll find it fascinating. If anyone is interested, I'm also planning to release my recordings of some of the men who were most crucial in Missouri's 11-0* championship season, including never before heard accounts from Mizzou's first consensus All-American Dan LaRose, and the kansas player at the heart of the biggest controversy in Mizzou football history, Bert Coan.
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This is the only written account of the true story of Mizzou's national champion-caliber team and is the result of countless hours of interviews with the players (many of whom are now deceased, but I started the research back in 2014), reels of microfilm newspaper articles from the bowels of Ellis Library when it served as the Missouri State Historical Society, and public records from Mizzou and the University of kansas. If you know anything about this season, you'll know kansas factors into it in a big way.
If you are interested in sports history or Mizzou, I think you'll find it fascinating. If anyone is interested, I'm also planning to release my recordings of some of the men who were most crucial in Missouri's 11-0* championship season, including never before heard accounts from Mizzou's first consensus All-American Dan LaRose, and the kansas player at the heart of the biggest controversy in Mizzou football history, Bert Coan.
