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The Junction Boys were the "survivors" of Texas A&M Aggies football coach Bear Bryant's brutal 10-day summer camp in Junction, Texas, beginning September 1, 1954. The ordeal became the subject of a 2001 book by Jim Dent, The Junction Boys, and a television movie with the same title produced by ESPN, starring Tom Berenger as Bryant.
Dec 14, 2002 · The Junction Boys: Directed by Mike Robe. With Tom Berenger, Bernard Curry, Fletcher Humphrys, Ryan Kwanten. Story of Bear Bryant's first summer as head football coach at Texas A&M. Bear takes his charges out onto the scorched plains and sees who survives.
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- Mike Robe
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The Junction Boys is a 2002 American made-for-television sports drama film written and directed by Mike Robe, based on Jim Dent's 2001 book of the same name. It is about the Junction Boys, and stars Tom Berenger as Bear Bryant. It aired on ESPN on December 14, 2002.
Sep 9, 2000 · The Junction Boys tells the story of Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant's legendary training camp in the small town of Junction, Texas. In a move that many consider the salvation of the Texas A&M football program, Coach Bryant put 115 players through the most grueling practices ever imagined.
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- Jim Dent
Dec 14, 2002 · The often unnerving story finds Bryant ducking the school's good ol' boy network of rich, influential alumni by spiriting his new team away to a makeshift training base in a tiny town called Junction.
But the Junction Boys provided the nucleus of an unbeaten team that almost won the national championship two years later. The Junction experience is still regarded as the turnaround of Aggie...
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Aug 3, 2004 · The Junction Boys is a 2002 television film about the 1954 Texas A&M football team, which was led by legendary coach Paul "Bear" Bryant. The film stars Tom Berenger as Bryant and Bernard Curry as John David Crow, one of the players who survived the team's grueling training camp.
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