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Fox Chapel author details ‘The Rebirth and Rise of Duquesne University Football’

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Fox Chapel resident Sam Costanzo has written a new book, “Renaissance: The Rebirth and Rise of Duquesne University Football.” It details the student-led effort to re-establish football as an intercollegiate sport at the university in 1969, when the sport was halted after WWII due to cost.

It was 1969 when a group of college-aged boys gathered in St. Martin’s Hall at Duquesne University to ignite a grassroots effort to return football to the Bluff.