Tales from the Georgia Tech Sideline: A Collection of the

Tales from the Georgia Tech Sideline: A Collection of the Greatest Yellow Jacket Stories Ever Told (Tales from the Team)

In this reissue of Tales from the Georgia Tech Sideline, former quarterback Kim King shares stories from his unique half-century involvement with Yellow Jackets football. As a child growing up in Atlanta, King watched Coach Bobby Doddâ€™s great Tech teams of the 1950s play in historic Grant Field. A highly recruited high school quarterback, King went to Tech and became the star quarterback from 1965Â–67. Â“The Young Left-Hander,â€ as late Tech radio announcer Al Ciraldo called King, led the Jackets to two bowl games and was Bobby Doddâ€™s last quarterback before he retired after the 1966 season.

Kingâ€™s involvement with Tech football did not end with his graduation. In 1974 he joined Ciraldo in the radio booth as Techâ€™s color commentator. In the book, he details Techâ€™s struggles after Doddâ€™s retirement; the colorful and turbulent Pepper Rodgers years; Bill Curryâ€™s painful first coaching steps back at his alma mater before restoring Tech to prominence in the mid-â€™80s; and the two awful seasons Bobby Ross endured before the historic 1990 breakthrough, culminating in Georgia Techâ€™s fourth national championship. Following Bill Lewisâ€™s disastrous tenure in the early â€™90s, George Oâ€™Leary revived Tech football yet again before his controversial departure for Notre Dame led to Chan Gaileyâ€™s arrival on The Flats.

Kim King saw many of the Jacketsâ€™ bowl victories and nearly 50 years of Tech football before his death in 2004. He shares those memories, along with his personal reminiscences of Tech players and coaches, triumphs and travails, in Tales from the Georgia Tech Sideline.

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Country USA
Brand Sports Publishing
Manufacturer Sports Publishing
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 45 B&W photos
ReleaseDate 2014-09-02
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781613217054

Country	USA
Brand	Sports Publishing
Manufacturer	Sports Publishing
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	45 B&W photos
ReleaseDate	2014-09-02
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781613217054

Tales from the Georgia Tech Sideline: A Collection of the Greatest Yellow Jacket Stories Ever Told (Tales from the Team)

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