Publisher's Synopsis
This is a book for anyone who has ever played or coached the game of football, who has ever competed between any set of lines, but, more importantly, for everyone who has ever battled life's larger foes, those monumentally more important than crossing a goal line, knocking down a buzzer-beating jump shot, or hitting a ball out of the park. Dick Strahm, a four-time NAIA national championship coach, is a member of the National Football and College Hall of Fame and has impacted small-college football perhaps as much as anyone who's ever strode the sidelines. A four-time recipient of NAIA's top coaching honour, National Coach of the Year, Strahm compiled a remarkable .736 winning percentage at The University of Findlay during his 24-year tenure. Along the way to coaching greatness, Strahm's most memorable victories have come against opponents with names like heart disease, cancer and stroke. His 40-plus-year coaching career is a remarkable story of perseverance, resiliency, and an indomitable will, the story of a man who has seen every setback as a golden opportunity to mount a fourth-quarter rally. Dick Strahm, both on the field and off, has been both a winner and, more importantly, a survivor. His love affair with football started during an era dominated by our nation's greatest war and continued throughout the decades which followed. From Lakota, Bryn, and Warren Western Reserve high schools to the University of Toledo to Kansas State University to The University of Findlay, Dick Strahm has been an inspiration to all whom he has touched.
