Sid Luckman wrote his memoir in 1949 and retired from the Chicago Bears in 1950. The book is one of a kind. Far more than a book on pro football, or just a sports memoir, the reader gets a look at America on the home front during the WW II years and after. He gives the reader a vivid sense for the competetive nature of pro football in the 1940's.
Two Chicago football coaches, Clark Shaughnessy of the University of Chicago, and George S. Halas, owner-coach of the Chicago Bears set out in the late 1930's to make the game more exciting. The "T-formation" with man-in-motion, revolutionized a brutal but dull game. Finding a quarterback with the athletic ability, physical durability, speed and intellect to learn hundreds of maneuvers is a story in itself. Luckman estimated that he needed to know up to 400 plays and variations on line blocking and pass routes. One of the great American sports stories, all but lost to history.
Once Halas and Shaughnessy had found their man, Luckman became a great emissary to the college ranks, tutoring the powerhouse schools from the service academies to Notre Dame to the Big Ten. By the 1960's, whether anyone knew it or not, the electrifying and brutal game of football had been changed forever.
This is a rare find among sports memoirs.
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