Probably the best team in Tulane history, the 1931 team shut out eight of its regular season opponents, finished the regular season unbeaten at 11-0, and earned a Rose Bowl bid. Jerry Dalrymple (Tulane’s first consensus All-American, and also Team Captain), Red Dawson, Wop Glover, Nollie Felts, and Don Zimmerman all started on offense in the Rose Bowl.

This book documents Jerry's life struggling for years to put himself through high school, junior college, and university with manual labor jobs ranging from an oiler on a ditch-digging machine to a rustler of heavy bundles in an express agency. His academic and athletic performance at Tulane also mirrored that down-to-earth work ethic, ending up with him leading his team to the Rose Bowl praised as one of the greatest football ends and who was lauded by the nation as a whole.