Gael Force: A Century of Football at Queen's

John Walker is a professor of Spanish studies at Queen’s University.

For many people, football and Queen’s are synonymous. The game at
Queen’s is almost as old as Confederation itself, since the Gaels have
been in existence since 1882. Written by a Queen’s business professor
who is also an ex-player and a sometime coach, this book chronicles the
history of the team from its origins up to the present. The volume is
rounded off by reams of statistics, tables, illustrations, appendices,
30 pages of informative notes, a brief bibliography, and an index.

Queen’s fans and boosters will enjoy the accounts of glorious
victories and heartbreaking losses, as well as the anecdotes by and
about such legendary figures as Alfie Pierce and the “kindly old
coach,” Frank Tindall. Other readers will appreciate the historical,
political, and social background against which the Gaels played out
their dreams at Richardson Stadium. There is much here, too, about
university politics, economic and business matters, and class problems.
Merv Daub is to be commended for this enthusiastic and illuminating
history of the “boys of autumn.”