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Was this ragtag group of precocious intellectuals the worst, or the most courageous, team in college or university soccer? From 1892 before 1930s the famous Monsters of the Midway dominated college or university soccer. However, in 1939 the University of Chicago fallen out of the Big Ten and wiped out its varsity soccer program. But now, it's 1969 and soccer is again. The resurrection of Chicago soccer hasn't brought the Monsters back to life. The team performs more like the laboratory mice of the Midway. The new Maroons are called, "the worst team in college or university ball," by People Journal. But this under-sized and outnumbered team is also set alongside the Trojan hero Hector courageously facing Achilles. They lose game after game. Yet, folks whose IQ is higher than their weight won't quit their objective to win one for his or her old trainer, Wally Hass. Wally's goal is to win one more game before he retires which would make his 100th success as a trainer. Sex, drugs, rock and roll 'n roll, the Draft Lottery, the Anti-War Movements, and university student rebellion on college or university campuses in the past due 60s - the University of Chicago is going swimming against the ethnical tide by resurrecting its soccer program. Jack Blair is a tiny town Hoosier child who just wished to go to the best college or university in the Midwest. In Chicago Jack encounters people as disparate as Muhammad Ali, Milton Friedman, and George Halas. Jack joins the team for resume-building. His goal is to win the Rhodes scholarship or grant and perhaps a soccer game. Together with his teammates he is swept into the tumult of the past due 1960s. He comes deeply in love with a radical feminist who demonstrates against the return of soccer to Chicago. He rooms with a secular Jewish child taking ballet whose daddy has begun making something called a computer chip. Jack's teammates mirror the wackiness of the changing times. There is the 135 pound nasal area guard and the 295 pound Sumerian scholar. For the team bus the Maroons blast The Mothers of Invention by using an 8-track, smoke pot, and worry about a friend's suicide look at. An assistant trainer rides Jack for not totally investing in the team. His favorite teacher chides him to concentrate on his studies. Jack comes old in a bewildering ethnical milieu of frats, jocks, hippies, and Marxist radicals. But his very best task is whether he can figure out how to love and make an genuine commitment. The booklet is encouraged by the author's experience of playing on the resurrected University of Chicago Maroons a/k/a the Monsters of the Midway. Jeff Rasley is also the writer of six other literature: Bringing Progress to Heaven; Light in the Mountains; Bogus Prophet, a Legal Thriller; Islands in my own Dreams; India - Nepal Himalayas in as soon as; and Pilgrimage: Sturgis to Wounded Leg and Back Home Again, a Memoir.
