1917 National Champions. The greatest team the South had ever seen - one that was pretty obviously slighted the year before, too - had finally made it to the summit of the college football world. All this accomplishment, at long last proving Frank Turner and the fanatics who demanded the Iron Captain Lyman Hall - remember, the man took his job so seriously that he worked himself to death - were right all along. Yet all their hard-won accomplishments backslid quickly as the war took more and more able bodied men - and as the whims of polite society took the greatest toll of all.
Rearview Mirror: A Flair for the Dramatic
