By Doug Griffiths
The heritage of Purdue athletics is usually humorous, occasionally poignant and successful and sometimes lovely awesome -- yet regularly uniquely human. alongside the way in which many characters have arisen in over eleven many years of pageant and approximately 2 hundred of those nice tales are chronicled in stories from the Boilermaker state. at the hardwood, readers will study why Purdue became down its first chance to play within the NCAA event, permitting archrival Indiana to win the 1940 name and the way the 1st "Big puppy" in Purdue men's basketball heritage wasn't Glenn Robinson. From the soccer sidelines, the authors exhibit the dramatic incident which nearly price the lives of Rose Bowl heroes Bob Griese and George Catavolas on the 1967 Hula Bowl. additionally, readers will learn the way long-time manhattan Yankees' proprietor George Steinbrenner turned an assistant trainer for the Purdue soccer group and 1 / 4 century later was once instrumental in luring the Boilermakers' NCAA ultimate 4 trainer clear of ! Purdue. integrated are the tales of Purdue's nationwide championship groups; the 1961 golfing staff which used to be led through a participant that by no means misplaced to golf legend Jack Nicklaus and the successful tale of the 1999 Purdue women's basketball workforce surviving 3 training adjustments en path to a countrywide name. you are going to get pleasure from analyzing tales from many of the colourful characters within the school's prior: Mike Alstott, Lin Dunn, Gene Keady, George King, Ward "Piggy" Lambert, Jack Mollenkopf, Michael "Scooby" Scearce, Moose Skowron and Joe Tiller -- to call a number of. and you'll commute again to the early days and the origins of Boilermaker activities whilst the workforce traveled through teach and proceed in the course of the electronic age whilst Heisman Trophy hopeful Drew Brees was once promoted for the award in cyberspace.
