Men in White: The Gutsy, Against-All-Odds Return of Penn State Football

ISBN: 1250280486

Author: Raymond, Chris

Condition: New

A powerful, rousing sports story, Men in White is an oral history of the Penn State football players' amazing turnaround after sanctions were imposed for the atrocious acts of Jerry Sandusky.On November 5, 2011 Jerry Sandusky was charged with 40 counts of child molestation, rocking Penn State's leafy campus and unseating the university president, the athletic director, and head coach Joe Paterno-devastating the football program he had erected and scrupulously maintained over half a century.Men in White traces the aftermath from the day NCAA penalties were handed out to the university, focusing almost entirely on the teammates, just ordinary college students, who were ensnared in the aftermath of the unforgivable transgressions of the their elders.With their personal futures in doubt, and the once proud football program in disrepair, these young men rose up to rehabilitate their team during a five year stretch, culminating in the thrilling, redemptive defeat of Wisconsin in the Big Ten Championship. Their story is not unlike that of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, a cast of young men with huge hearts who boldly accepted the challenge of a lifetime: shouldering the weight of a bruising political drama and blistering media scrutiny.