 
Border Wars: The First Fifty Years of Atlantic Coast Conference Football (American Sports History Series)
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 On: 2004-10-27
With the ACC expansion, its a good idea to take a look back and see where the league has been to get an idea of where its going. "Border Wars: The First Fifty Years of Atlantic Coast Conference Football" does a fine job of detailing the first 50 years of ACC football. Its an unbiased, mostly season by season account of football only.
Its nice to read a book about the ACC that is NOT basketball centric. The book begins in 1953 and ends with the 2003 season. The format is to simply detail the events of the eras and seasons. Some chapters are detail one season only. There is one whole chapter devoted to Clemsons 1981 national title team, another devoted to G. Techs national title in 1990. Other chapters report more on eras, highlighting the dominant team(s) in that era, like the chapter on the "Two team league from 82-89" about Maryland and Clemsons great 80s teams.
The book is very fair to Clemson, but just reading it will give you greater appreciation for the history of Maryland, UNC and Tech football. S. Carolina is barely mentioned, except for detailing why they left the ACC. The 90s dominance of Florida St. is told in an even-handed way as well.
The book would make a great read for yourself, or a holiday gift for an older person who lived through those years or a younger student who needs to know about great Duke teams, the Maryland conference dominance of the early 70s and why the 80s were so special for a Clemson fan.
The author discusses Clemsons probation fairly. There isnt a lot of prose in this book. It mostly gives details about coaches, teams, seasons, players and universities. Fortunately, there isnt a lot of nonsense about stadiums, fans, adminsitrations, or any other goofy controversies that we like to waste much of out time on. The book is just about football and for that reason alone I highly reccommend it.
On: 2004-07-27
Fun and easy to read, fascinating insights into an interesting conference and their football history.
by: Anonymous On: 2004-07-20
The best Atlantic Coast Conference football history book that has ever come out......Powell does not place more emphasis on one school over another, and it is clear that he has done a massive amount of research.This book is a MUST HAVE for longtime Atlantic Coast Conference football fans, and for fans of Florida State, you can relive all the glory years of the 90s in full detail with this book!
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