Red Cagle : West Point's Three-Time All-American (Paperback)

"By any coach's reckoning, Christan Keener 'Red' Cagle was too small for his chosen sport. At five feet nine and 165 pounds, Cagle was dwarfed by massive linemen, yet he won the Helms Trophy and was voted All-American three years in a row. From humble beginnings in the rural South to a life of national recognition, Cagle's saga encapsulates a ... tale of athletic competition, the rigors of West Point, and fateful young love wrapped around the life of a true Louisiana sports legend. Writing from a personal perspective, author Cathy C. Post verifies family lore about the 1920s football phenom's storied life through interviews with surviving relatives and ... research of hundreds of documents, newspaper articles, and archival film"--Back cover. Chris Cagle, nicknamed Red after Red Grange, was a football phenom in the 1920s. When Notre Dame's Knute Rockne gave his famous win one for the Gipper speech, he was talking about beating Cagle and West Point. This fascinating biography of the Louisiana native is a rousing tale of athletic competition, fateful young love, and an untimely, mysterious death, based on interviews with Cagle's few surviving relatives and hundreds of documents, newspapers articles, and archival film.