For Love of the Game: The Holy Wars of Millsaps College & Mississippi College Football [Hardcover]

Jim Fraiser (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 311 pages
• Publisher: Mississippi Sports Council, Inc. (December 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0970552106
• ISBN-13: 978-0970552105
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,012,869 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cover, June 10, 2001

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Janet Nickels (Darnell, Idaho) - See all my reviews

This review is from: For Love of the Game: The Holy Wars of Millsaps College & Mississippi College Football (Hardcover)

When visiting my family in the deep south, my father highly recommended this book to me. As I am not that big of a football fan, I did find the rivalry between the two schools so violent it seemed almost unrealistic. The most exciting aspect of the book game from the two young men on the cover. As highschool team-mates and buddies the book follows their emotions and mindset in preparing for the game as they are now enemies. Excellent book.

2.0 out of 5 stars Great story, average telling, August 7, 2001

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Bob (Minneapolis) - See all my reviews

This review is from: For Love of the Game: The Holy Wars of Millsaps College & Mississippi College Football (Hardcover)

The subject matter of this book was fascinating, but I just found the telling of it left me wanting. The first three-quarters of the book is a dry re-telling of history, much of it not particularly relevant to the rivalry. And was there no attempt to revive the football series for 30 years after it was cancelled? There's no talk of it in the book and if it didn't happen, it should be noted. It seems unlikely that nobody wanted to revive it.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Football in the deep-South is taken as serious as religion., August 22, 2001

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Xavier Middlebrook (Santa Maria, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: For Love of the Game: The Holy Wars of Millsaps College & Mississippi College Football (Hardcover)

Great story! Unbelievable how serious these people take their football. Come on, two church-affiliated schools getting so involved in their football teams that they riot and put people in the hospital, and then have to quit playing each other...for FORTY YEARS?! I'm a huge football fan, but these people are absolutely whacko! I may skip watching my USC Trojans and fly across the county just to see these two Division III schools play. (Yes, I plan on bringing my gas mask and riot gear.)