Heisman's First Trophy: The Game that Launched Football in by Sam Hatcher

By Sam Hatcher

Heisman’s First Trophy is a activities novel in response to a traditionally major soccer video game performed a hundred years in the past within which tiny Cumberland college, led via a number of Kappa Sig fraternity brothers, squared off in Atlanta opposed to a Georgia Tech staff destined for a countrywide championship and coached by way of the mythical John Heisman. the ultimate rating 222 – zero, continues to be the main lopsided victory within the annals of Collegiate Football.

The online game stored Cumberland from monetary death; put Georgia Tech on a route to a countrywide championship; and adjusted the belief of a country in regards to the caliber of soccer being performed within the South. in lots of respects this one online game was once the delivery of southern soccer champions to follow.

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