Robert Neyland

The West Point Engineer Who Built Tennessee Football

Timothy D. Johnson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2026
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
979-8-216-20172-4 (ISBN)

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The first biography in decades of legendary University of Tennessee football coach Robert Neyland, providing deep insight and first-hand accounts of his life—including his time at West Point and service in WWII, and how his dual military and coaching careers influenced his leadership style in both.

A celebration of coaching great Robert Neyland

Robert Neyland coached football for twenty-one seasons at the University of Tennessee and amassed a record of 173-31-12. He won seven conference titles and boasted full or partial claim to four national championships. His success resulted from his stern discipline and his ability to put together the most consistently dominant defenses in the first half of the 20th century.

The first biography in decades, Robert Neyland: The West Point Engineer Who Built Tennessee Football provides deep insight and first-hand accounts of Neyland’s life and incredible career. Neyland was not your typical college football coach. He was a graduate of West Point and veteran of both world wars who rose to the rank of brigadier general while serving in the China, Burma, India Theater in World War II. During much of that time, he played a dual role as both army officer and football coach. Neyland shifted seamlessly between the two professions, using lessons learned in each to influence his leadership style in the other. As his players attested, Neyland ran his football program like the army.

Featuring interviews with the only living former players from the Neyland era, and including new insight from the Robert R. Neyland Family Papers, Robert Neyland will not only fascinate fans of University of Tennessee football, but sports and military historians, as well.

Timothy D. Johnson is the Elizabeth Gentry Brown Professor of History at Lipscomb University in Nashville where he has taught since 1991. He has written articles for journals, popular magazines, and encyclopedias, and has authored or edited eight previous books. Johnson has been a research fellow at the Virginia Historical Society as well as at Yale University, and has appeared on The History Channel, C-SPAN, and Public Television.

Foreword by Blake Neyland
Acknowledgements
Introduction

Chapter 1 – Growing up in Texas: 1892-1912
Chapter 2 – West Point: 1912-1916
Chapter 3 – From West Point to West Point: 1916-1924
Chapter 4 – Becoming a Coach: 1925-1928
Chapter 5 – The Neyland System: 1929-1935
Chapter 6 – Army Duties: 1925-1936
Chapter 7 – Rebuilding the Neyland System: 1936-1938
Chapter 8 – SEC Dynasty: 1939-1940
Chapter 9 – The Nation Calls: 1941-1945
Chapter 10 – The General Returns: 1946-1948
Chapter 11 – Back on Top: 1949-1952
Chapter 12 – The Final Years: 1953-1962
Epilogue: The Neyland Legacy

Sources
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	9.7.2026
Vorwort	Blake Neyland
Zusatzinfo	19 bw photos
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-13	979-8-216-20172-4 / 9798216201724
Zustand	Neuware