WHERE DREAMS DIE HARD - A Small American Town and Its Six-Man Football Team by Stowers, Carlton - 2005

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press, 2005. (xvii) 201 pp. Quarter-bound in red on black boards; lettered in black on the spine; headband. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. Six-man football is a wide open, high scoring game invented in Nebraska in 1934. At its peak in 1953, thirty thousand teams in small towns across the U.S. and Canada played the game. To this day, six-man is still played in hundreds of small towns. But this is about more than football. The people of Penelope, Texas - population 211 - come together not only to support their high school team, the Wolverines, through thick and a lot of thin, but also - and more importantly - each other. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.