This book is the story of a large group of football-playing teammates at their alma mater, Randolph-Macon College, in Ashland Virginia, during the period 1965-1970—the winningest six-year run in program history there. It has been written to rekindle recall of the halcyon days of their youth, before all their collective memories fade to black. They were bulletproof back then, but now have grown all too familiar with their manifold limitations.
It is said that one dies twice. The first time is when your heart stops beating, and the second is when the last person utters your name. This book enables these teammates to equip all their grandchildren and great-grandchildren with the story of a shared past, so as to push the inevitable a little further into the future.
The newspaper accounts included here are faithfully re-created, in hopes that those who didn’t keep scrapbooks will, long after the fact, be able to have their own. Piecing together events now fifty ye
