Non-fiction reading log
Reading Log: Where Football is King
Part I: 9-54 The book Where Football is King by Christopher Walsh is about the history of arguably the greatest collegiate conference in all of sports; the SEC. At the beginning, it talks about how the SEC got started, the original teams, coaches and early memorable games. For instance, when Georgia Tech was still in the SEC, they beat Cumberland College 220-0. As time went on and football started to spread across the country, teams started to branch out and join other conferences and at one point the SEC only consisted of six teams. Rivalries are also a big role played in college football. The most well-known, “southern brawls” are Georgia vs. Auburn and Auburn vs. Alabama (also known as the Iron Bowl). Every year since 1944, there has been at least one SEC school has been ranked in the top ten. I think the first section of this book was to persuade the reader to believe that the SEC is the greatest conference in the country. It has great stories and facts to back up what it is saying. I found this section to be very interesting because it taught me a lot of stuff that I would have never known.
Part II: 55-100
The second chunk of the book starts to talk about the history of two teams in the SEC east division: Florida and Georgia. The Florida Gators are located in the heart of Gainesville with an enrollment of 48,613 as of 2006. Florida's one and only national championship before the Tim Tebow/Urban Meyer era, came in 1996. Florida is widely known for creating the sports drink Gatorade in the late 50's. Florida still gets 20% of Gatorades earnings. Present South Carolina football coach Steve Spurrier was a Heisman winning quarterback for the Gators in 1966 and returned to be a head coach at Florida in 1990. The University of Georgia is one of the most achieved universities in the country. Located in the college town of Athens, UGA has 33,405 students (as of 2006) wearing red and black all across campus. Georgia
Part I: 9-54 The book Where Football is King by Christopher Walsh is about the history of arguably the greatest collegiate conference in all of sports; the SEC. At the beginning, it talks about how the SEC got started, the original teams, coaches and early memorable games. For instance, when Georgia Tech was still in the SEC, they beat Cumberland College 220-0. As time went on and football started to spread across the country, teams started to branch out and join other conferences and at one point the SEC only consisted of six teams. Rivalries are also a big role played in college football. The most well-known, “southern brawls” are Georgia vs. Auburn and Auburn vs. Alabama (also known as the Iron Bowl). Every year since 1944, there has been at least one SEC school has been ranked in the top ten. I think the first section of this book was to persuade the reader to believe that the SEC is the greatest conference in the country. It has great stories and facts to back up what it is saying. I found this section to be very interesting because it taught me a lot of stuff that I would have never known.
Part II: 55-100
The second chunk of the book starts to talk about the history of two teams in the SEC east division: Florida and Georgia. The Florida Gators are located in the heart of Gainesville with an enrollment of 48,613 as of 2006. Florida's one and only national championship before the Tim Tebow/Urban Meyer era, came in 1996. Florida is widely known for creating the sports drink Gatorade in the late 50's. Florida still gets 20% of Gatorades earnings. Present South Carolina football coach Steve Spurrier was a Heisman winning quarterback for the Gators in 1966 and returned to be a head coach at Florida in 1990. The University of Georgia is one of the most achieved universities in the country. Located in the college town of Athens, UGA has 33,405 students (as of 2006) wearing red and black all across campus. Georgia