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By Sam Hatcher

Heisman’s First Trophy is a activities novel in accordance with a traditionally major soccer online game performed a hundred years in the past during which tiny Cumberland collage, led through a number of Kappa Sig fraternity brothers, squared off in Atlanta opposed to a Georgia Tech workforce destined for a countrywide championship and coached via the mythical John Heisman. the ultimate rating 222 – zero, is still the main lopsided victory within the annals of Collegiate Football.

The video game stored Cumberland from monetary dying; positioned Georgia Tech on a route to a countrywide championship; and adjusted the belief of a country concerning the caliber of soccer being performed within the South. in lots of respects this one online game was once the beginning of southern soccer champions to follow.

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