Red Cagle

Red Cagle

West Point’s Three-Time All-American

By Cathy C. Post

$27.95

Publication Date: 15th October 2019

Chris Cagle, nicknamed "Red" after Red Grange, was a football phenom in the 1920s. When Notre Dame's Knute Rockne gave his famous "win one for the Gipper" speech, he was talking about beating Cagle and West Point. This fascinating biography of the Louisiana native is a rousing tale of athletic competition, fateful young love, and an untimely, mysterious death, based on interviews with Cagle's few surviving relatives and hundreds of documents, newspapers articles, and archival film.
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Chris Cagle, nicknamed "Red" after Red Grange, was a football phenom in the 1920s. When Notre Dame's Knute Rockne gave his famous "win one for the Gipper" speech, he was talking about beating Cagle and West Point. This fascinating biography of the Louisiana native is a rousing tale of athletic competition, fateful young love, and an untimely, mysterious death, based on interviews with Cagle's few surviving relatives and hundreds of documents, newspapers articles, and archival film.
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Chris Cagle, nicknamed "Red" after Red Grange, was a football phenom in the 1920s. When Notre Dame's Knute Rockne gave his famous "win one for the Gipper" speech, he was talking about beating Cagle and West Point. This fascinating biography of the Louisiana native is a rousing tale of athletic competition, fateful young love, and an untimely, mysterious death, based on interviews with Cagle's few surviving relatives and hundreds of documents, newspapers articles, and archival film.
Details
  • Pages: 208
  • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
  • Imprint: Pelican Publishing
  • Publication Date: 15th October 2019
  • State: New York
  • Illustration Note: Black and White
  • ISBN: 9781455625154
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    SPORTS & RECREATION / Football
    HISTORY / United States / General
    BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports
Author Bio
Cathy Post is a graduate of McNeese State University, a retired high school and kindergarten teacher, and a former legal secretary for the district attorney and Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Lake Charles, Louisiana. A native of Cameron Parish, Louisiana, Mrs. Post and her husband now live in Las Vegas, Nevada. Her family is one of the six chronicled in this true account.
Chris Cagle, nicknamed "Red" after Red Grange, was a football phenom in the 1920s. When Notre Dame's Knute Rockne gave his famous "win one for the Gipper" speech, he was talking about beating Cagle and West Point. This fascinating biography of the Louisiana native is a rousing tale of athletic competition, fateful young love, and an untimely, mysterious death, based on interviews with Cagle's few surviving relatives and hundreds of documents, newspapers articles, and archival film.
  • Pages: 208
  • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
  • Imprint: Pelican Publishing
  • Publication Date: 15th October 2019
  • State: New York
  • Illustrations Note: Black and White
  • ISBN: 9781455625154
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    SPORTS & RECREATION / Football
    HISTORY / United States / General
    BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports
Cathy Post is a graduate of McNeese State University, a retired high school and kindergarten teacher, and a former legal secretary for the district attorney and Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Lake Charles, Louisiana. A native of Cameron Parish, Louisiana, Mrs. Post and her husband now live in Las Vegas, Nevada. Her family is one of the six chronicled in this true account.

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