The Nelson Eight
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Introduction Soft cords rippled over the streaming soul. The song stabbed, the music bled, a rhythm was released into warm beats of measure. The great song was being sung. Its rolling drum struck and proclaimed vibrant hope, and the tune would flow and fly and fantail, lest they ever forget these eight men from Mabee Hall. “Oh, oh, oh …”
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About the Book
It was the early 1970s during a tumultuous time in American history when Kevin McLeod first entered the halls of Abilene Christian College. It was there that he and his friends would learn a lodestone of things about themselves, each other, Wildcat football, and the college itself—all while being influenced by coaches, professors, teammates, dormmates, and the female cohabitants just across campus. In an amusing retelling of one week of campus life, McLeod, who was a sophomore in 1973, shares a glimpse into the gears and spiritual machinery of a college in crisis. After he and seven other young men formed a squad with an important mission, they soon realized that there was not a prayer in heaven or on Earth that could save fate from their date with destiny. As he details how he and the Nelson Eight planned and then carried out a raid on a girls’ dormitory, McLeod reveals how even a group of very determined young men could not escape the consequences of their actions. The Nelson Eight shares the humorous retelling of the unchristian actions of immature men attending a Christian college in the early 1970s.
About the Author
Kevin McLeod is a physician who attended Abilene Christian College in the 1970s. The Nelson Eight is his first book.