Examines the life of "Jack Clyde Dempsey, a football coach at a Catholic school in Boston who forever changed the lives of countless young men. He brought unity and discipline to a motley group of inner city boys for whom football was a means to escape the many challenges of home life ... And while his team, his football family, quickly came to respect him for his unwavering faith in their potential, the truth was Dempsey's storied and mythic 'dark side' had preceded him. While revered by the streetwise boys before they ...
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Examines the life of "Jack Clyde Dempsey, a football coach at a Catholic school in Boston who forever changed the lives of countless young men. He brought unity and discipline to a motley group of inner city boys for whom football was a means to escape the many challenges of home life ... And while his team, his football family, quickly came to respect him for his unwavering faith in their potential, the truth was Dempsey's storied and mythic 'dark side' had preceded him. While revered by the streetwise boys before they ever laid eyes on him, Dempsey revealed in time an unapologetically volatile temper, and his whispered-about dealings with the local mob fed the rumor mill of Don Bosco High"--Publisher's website.
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