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1968; The Year that Saved Ohio State Football

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1968 begins in the mens’ room of an exclusive Columbus restaurant and ends two years later in The Rose Bowl, an unwitting but flawless metaphor for Ohio State University’s rise to the pinnacle of college football. Between these two events occurs some of the great adventure stories in the history of the sport.

Against a backdrop of national turmoil and international crises, Coach Wayne Woodrow Hayes uncharacteristically brings into his lagging program new young coaches and an impressive bunch of peculiar kids, including the first significant number of African-Americans.

There is an irreverent military school lineman who begins the school’s lifting program by bringing his own weights, a Brooklyn fullback who can’t imagine Ohio’s open spaces, a running back with New Jersey street-gang cred, and a homegrown quarterback with a bad back and an unassailable talent.

All of them labor under the shadow of Hayes, the promethean figure who would leave an indelible legacy as some of the century’s great coaches- sly, mercurial, pugnacious, maddeningly contradictory, a larger-than-life figure who carries the football ambitions of a whole state on his beefy shoulders.

1968 is a rich tapestry of scenes and stories all over an incandescent season, including one of the vital best football dialogue ever written. In scene after scene, the raw intensity of an unforgettable season pulls the reader along to its breathless climax in Pasadena when the Super Sophs take on one of college’s greatest running backs.

It s a story that has the whole thing- great drama, achievement, colorful characters, and the complex unfolding of Woody Hayes’s multifaceted personality.

Near the end of a chaotic decade, the Buckeyes provide a badly needed feel-good lift to a whole state. And just as Woody predicted, they found themselves a large, inextricably bound circle of relatives, tied perpetually by the commonalities of blood literally theirs sweat, tears, laughter, and, of course, their near-miraculous season.

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