Not since The Glory of Their Times

has a book captured the heyday of an

American institution so vividly, and

never before have the "iron men"

who made footballso popular told their

stories with such grass-roots eloquence

and spirit.

IRON MEN is oral history at its most

entertaining, offering dozens of inter-

views witb the golden boys, farmhands

and genuine "ornery critters" whose

tough, never-say-die style and down-