Danny Spewak has a decade of experience as a news reporter at local television affiliates in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Buffalo, and mid-Missouri. He graduated from the University of Missouri with dual degrees in journalism and political science. Spewak has also covered college sports extensively as a freelance writer, producing work that has appeared in the USA Today Network, The Huffington Post, and other online media outlets. Spewak was inspired to write this book through the story of his own grandfather, Jack Spewak, who was a member of the Gophers’ freshman football team in 1941 and an Army Air Corps veteran.
Take it from a man who actually lived through and experienced those long ago times—this book has remarkably recaptured and eloquently reported what life was like for a young football player/service man way back there during World War II. -- Marv Levy, Pro Football Hall of Fame, Class of 2001, U.S. Army Air Corps, 1943-1946 From the gridiron glory of an undefeated championship season which was staged on the onset of WWII, through extensive research and interviews of family members of the players, From the Gridiron to the Battlefield investigates the Golden Gophers of 1941 and one of the most unique moments in college football history. -- Jeremy Swick, historian and curator of the College Football Hall of Fame