Coach Harry Wright, former Notre Dame grid star, had built the team into a national powerhouse. Crowds averaging 18,000 watched Aquinas take on top teams from Michigan, New Jersey, Texas, and even Father Flanagan's football team of Boys Town, Nebraska.

Aquinas football was big time. "When Football Was Bigger Than Life" takes an in-depth look at the rise of the Aquinas football program and the times in which it thrived.

Witness Rochester's first high school football team at century's turn. See the young grid iron legends Paul Brown, Doc Blanchard, Glen Davis and the famed Massillon Tigers. Look back on the Rochester Jeffersons, a charter member of the National Football League, and the spirited business-sponsored semi-pro teams of the city.