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Published in Booklist, September 2005

By Wes Lukowsky

Trinity Bible College in Ellendale, North Dakota, has a total enrollment of 310 students, most of whom become preachers and missionaries. Amazingly, it also fields a football team. The head coach is Rusty Bentley, a native Texan whose first season, 2003, was notable for its stunning lack of success. In his first game, Trinity was beaten by Rockford College of Illinois 105-0, the most lopsided defeat in college-football history. The rest of the season wasn't much better. Trinity was outscored 585-12. Journalist Fury followed the team through the 2004 season. Trinity wasn't much more successful in 2004, prompting dissension in the ranks as the players began to tune Bentley out, eventually causing his postseason resignation. The lesson readers will be left with is this: faith will carry one through many difficult situations in life, but in football an occasional win is important, too. An intriguing counterpoint to the numerous accounts of championship teams and coaches. << Back to Articles About the Book