Undefeated The Oklahoma Sooners and the Greatest Winning Streak in College Football

For three perfect seasons (1954-1956), the Oklahoma Sooners won every football game they playedhome or awayand over the course of five years they won 47 straight games, a record that stands to this day. This awesome achievement was the product of a masterful coach and the spirited young men he led. The Undefeated details all the thrilling action on the field during this record winning streak, but it also reveals the behind-the-scenes tumult and pressure swirling around it. Dent presents an absorbing character study of Bud Wilkinson, the brilliant, complex coach who engineered the string of victories and whose starched-shirt public persona hid a man of many secrets. The Undefeated also provides an examination of a state and its people still suffering from a Depression hangover and an identity crisis, who took up the Sooners football banner almost as a religious cause.Through it all, the young men who accomplished this amazing feat shine in vivid life. Combining the gritty, evocative period detail of The Junction Boys with an in-depth look at a legendary coach and the determination of his team like When Pride Still Mattered, Jim Dent has created a classic work of sports literature.Dent, Jim is the author of 'Undefeated The Oklahoma Sooners and the Greatest Winning Streak in College Football', published 2002 under ISBN 9780312303266 and ISBN 0312303262.