Description
Very Good+ dust jacket illustrated with football players has minor rub wear at edges, .5 inch tear at bottom of front cover, crease on corner of inside jacket. Near Fine binding is red cloth over boards, black lettering on spine. Illustrated front free end paper. Black-and-white illustrations within by Francis Chauncy. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 8.2″ tall x 5.7″ wide.
About the book (from the dust jacket)
ROOKIE RUNNING BACK is a fast-action story about Mike Scott, a Yale football player who turns pro for the Steeltown Tigers. In a few short weeks, during the rigors of the training camp, Mike learns how different the pro game is from Ivy League football, He finds, too, that his value to the team is being measured by footage of press clippings rother thon footage on the field, and that the thirst for power can make losing more important than winning.
He also finds a warm friend in Tippy Raft, a Negro fellow player. Together they prove the villainy of the coach, who wants to throw a game to the opposition. But in the climax, when Mike returns to the Yale Bowl to play an exhibition game against the New York Giants, he finds that team spirit does prevail over chicanery and greed.
ROOKIE RUNNING BACK is a different kind of football story, tersely written, filled with the kick and power of the profession.
About the author (from the dust jacket)
CLIFFORD HANKIN was born in New Jersey and attended Princeton University, where he majored in English and wrote sketches for the Princeton Triangle Club shows. He has always enjoyed sports-football in high school and, more recently (and regularly), tennis and squash. At present he is an account executive for the advertising agency, N. W. Ayer, and lives with his wife and two sons in Darien, Connecticut.
