The Football Gravy Train — Frank O'Rourke

How does a boy with an athletic scholarship feel? Driven by pressure from all sides to put football ahead of his studies, to throw away a future career for a present victory, Jim was forced to make a hard choice.

We think you'll find the conclusion a surprising one, something new and different in football stories.

The tension of the huddle, the actual feel of a line smash, or a long pass in the hands of the receiver, the hours and days of mind and body straining practice - all the excitement, color and toil of big-time football are set down here by Frank O'Rourke with that same 'on the field' vividness which has made his previous sports novels popular.

And perhaps in no previous book has the author's unequalled ability to get into the heart and mind of a career athlete been put to such good use as in this story of Jim Delaney, the acknowledged leader of "Midwest' University's spotlight team and the leading star on the national football stage.