YAEGER, DON WITH SAM CUNNINGHHAM & JOHN PAPADAKIS - Turning of the Tide How One Game Changed the South

NY: Center Street, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. 9781931722940; Moderate edge foxing, otherwise Binding, DJ and Contents are almost like new. ; 9-1/4" Tall, xvi + 252pp. + 8p b/w photos. Maroon boards, bleck spine, bright silver lettering. SPORTS. Within the pages of this book, is the behind-the-scenes story of a history-making college football game. When Bear Bryant's Crimson Tide, the all-white national powerhouse in the SEC , met John McKay's USC Trojans, a diverse team featuring a nearly all-black starting backfield, the game not only swept away the last remnants of the racial divide in college football, but marked the tipping point for civil righrts progress in the South. ". Very Good in Fine dust jacket .