Dreaming of Heroes

A story of the golden age of college football that follows one man, Cyril J. Letzelter, from the roots of his athletic stardom in the Ohio Valley High School football scene, to his emergence as a bonafide national college football star, to the surprising end of his playing career engineered by some of the most powerful people in college football and the United States Congress. It is also the story of his redemption and his re-emergence as a soldier and assistant coach for the vaunted Army teams of the 1930s, and his surprising return to the place of his greatest gridiron triumphs late in his life.