The Winning Touchdown: A Story of College Football

The year is uncertain, but the campus of Randall College pulses with the same energy that fills stadiums every autumn. When Tom Parsons, Phil Clinton, and Sid Henderson return to their dorm room to find their beloved armchair vanished, they little suspect this small mystery will intertwine with the fate of their football team. Ed Kerr, their star player, has been called away by family troubles. Then Bricktop, another key man, walks off the roster. With the season hanging in the balance, the trio must solve the puzzle of their missing furniture while rallying their team against seemingly impossible odds. This is quintessential American campus fiction from an era when football was becoming the nation's sport and college identity was being forged on the gridiron. Chadwick captures something genuine about male friendship in its most selfless form: the willingness to detective-work at midnight, to mentor younger players, to carry a team when stars fall. The mystery of the armchair proves trivial compared to the mystery of holding a team together when everything suggests it should collapse.