The Little Orangemen

By Earl Groves (Author), Michael K McMahan (Editor), Art Shoemaker (Foreword)

In spite of his busy life and career, when the need and opportunity to coach a local Pop Warner football team arose, Coach Earl Groves stepped up to the challenge. He says in this remarkable book that the experience changed his life. It certainly changed the lives of hundreds of boys who proudly played for the YBMC Little Organgemen for the following ten years.

Coach Groves’ teams won nine straight state championships, eight bowl games and three world championships over the next decade. They overwhelmed their opponents with speed and precision. They were trained in all aspects by the coaches that Coach Groves recruited, especially by his long-time friends, Joe Eller and Bennie Cunningham.

This is the story of a remarkable football team told in the words of the man who coached them to glory.