The Rise Of Washington State University Football PDF Download

"TAKING FLIGHT: The INCREDIBLE story of Eastern Washington University football and its rise as a national power" is a book by former Cheney Free Press reporter Paul Delaney that chronicles Eastern Washington University's impressive climb to national prominence in the Football Championship Series (FCS) football world. For 12 years, Delaney was the reporter who covered the Eagles with both stories and photos in an unprecedented way for the community weekly paper.The book is part anthology with Delaney reprinting by permission dozens and dozens of his selected Free Press stories and columns - plus hundreds of his original photos. He's organized this portion of the book into the following chapters:? INCREDIBLE Games? INCREDIBLE Milestones? INCREDIBLE People? INCREDIBLE Stats & StuffTAKING FLIGHT concludes with nearly 2-dozen unique interviews conducted following his retirement in December 2018 in a chapter called: INCREDIBLE Trailblazers. The stories are unique, and in some cases have never before been told.Underfunded forever, the Eagle program found a way to transition from NAIA roots to NCAA Division 1. Eastern culminated a journey that began in 1979 by winning the 2010 FCS championship in dramatic fashion, 20-19 over Delaware. They have been regulars in the postseason for nearly 2 decades.A series of coaches, Dick Zornes, Mike Kramer, Paul Wulff, Beau Baldwin and Aaron Best have led that effort to not only excel on the field in the Big Sky Conference, but to fight off numerous - and regular - efforts by certain elements of the school's faculty to defund and dismantle the program.Along with the national title victory, installation of unique red artificial turf in 2010 became not only the program's calling card but a way of uniquely drawing attention to the university.