This book is written for those of us who love Syracuse University and especially love the Syracuse Orange Football Team. You'll like all the stories from the University's founding in 1870, just about 150 years ago, to the beginning of the football program, through the great coaches to Syracuse as an annual National Champion contender and as a National Champion. This is a must-have book for Syracuse fans by providing a leg up on the facts missing from the bookshelves of those who do not have this book. You will learn that the Syracuse Orange, once known as the Orangemen, are fierce and passionate competitors. From the stadium to the classroom to the research lab, the Syracuse Orange always play to win. The book first tells the story about Syracuse's founding in 1870 and quickly gets to the first football game in 1867. From there, the progression leads, to Syracuse's first football game in 1889, then to the first Syracuse coach in 1890, and of course to the great immortal Syracuse coaches-Frank "Buck" ONeill, Chick Meehan, Ben Schwartzwalder, Dick MacPherson, and Paul Pasqualoni, all the way to the current season with Coach Dino Babers. This book captures the great moments in Syracuse Football. It takes the reader through stories about the Orange's 29 coaches to great stories about 129 seasons worth of great games (1306 games) with 720 great wins. The book often stops in time and talks about a particular great player such as Jim Brown, Ernie Davis, Larry Csonka, Floyd Little, Donovan McNabb, Marvin Harrison, Art Monk, John Mackey, Don MacPherson, or Dwight Feeney to add to your reading enjoyment. This book is your finest source for a great read on your favorite college football team. It is the closest thing to an all-encompassing, full-blown encyclopedia of Syracuse Football-a blow by blow history with tales of the great moments. We capture all the action and all the memorable moments of Orange football. This book is for your reading pleasure but also is a great reference for when you want to see how a particular Syracuse game in any year happened to turn out. You cannot ever get enough of Syracuse greatness, but we do give it a try in this can't miss book. You will not be able to put this book down.
About the Author: Brian Kelly retired as an Assistant Professor in the Business Information Technology (BIT) Program at Marywood University, where he also served as the IBM i and Midrange Systems Technical Advisor to the IT Faculty. Kelly designed, developed, and taught many college and professional courses. He continues as a contributing technical editor to a number of technical industry magazines, including "The Four Hundred" and "Four Hundred Guru," published by IT Jungle. Kelly is a former IBM Senior Systems Engineer. His specialty was problem solving for customers as well as implementing advanced operating systems and software on his client's machines. Brian is the author of 151 books, including 23 Sports Books, and hundreds of magazine articles. He has been a frequent speaker at technical conferences throughout the United States. Brian was a candidate for the US Congress from Pennsylvania in 2010 and he ran for Mayor in his home town in 2015. Kelly loves Syracuse and he became a big fan in the 1980's when he was with IBM and he ran many bus trips from Scranton to Syracuse to watch Pennsylvania Teams such as Penn State and Pittsburgh, play the Orangemen. When PSU stopped playing the Orange, the annual PSU game, which once alternated between PSU and Pitt continued to be billed for Scranton IBMers as the Annual Penn State Game. However, the game itself would feature Army or another appropriate team against the Orangemen of Syracuse. Sometimes our bus parked right alongside the Army busses and our kids loved watching the cadets. This is Brian's seventh "Great Moments" book about major College Football Teams and writing about Syracuse has been a special treat.