‘Strike Season’: Author recalls year Mt. Lebanon football team played without coaches

Jimmy Carter’s presidency was embattled, diplomats were being taken hostage in Iran, “Apocalypse Now” was alternately dazzling and puzzling moviegoers and Led Zeppelin’s final studio album, “In Through the Out Door” was at the top of the charts. The fall of 1979 was also a moment of upheaval in many American classrooms. The 1979-80 academic […]