If there were ever a bowl game deserving of the word “epic,” it would be the 2016 Alamo Bowl. Texas Christian University's Horned Frogs’ victory over the Oregon Ducks ranks as possibly the most stunning comeback win ever.

This is the remarkable story of that game and its underdog hero, Bram Kohlhausen. Bram made it to TCU after an unfortunate debut at University of Houston and a stint at a West Coast junior college, and had never before started in a four-year college game.

Now the graduating senior found himself approaching the last game of his varsity career — as TCU’s walk-on No. 2 quarterback. It had been his father’s dream to see Bram start as a major team quarterback, but cancer claimed him two months earlier.

Two days before the Alamo Bowl, star quarterback Trevone Boykin punched a San Antonio policeman in a Riverwalk bar brawl. Suddenly, it was Bram the backup QB leading the Frogs into the Alamodome — and straight into a disastrous first half.

Bram was convinced he would be benched for the rest of the game. The score was hopeless: 31-0 and he was certain his last chance had been ignominiously blown. What happened next was a triple-overtime turnaround victory that astounded the sports world. In REMEMBER THE ALAMO BOWL, award-winning sports columnist Jim Reeves puts you on the field, in the quarterback’s head, and in the middle of the making of a legend.

REVIEWS:

“A candid and poignant true life parable of one young man's winding journey from unfilled promises to a moment of magical destiny. A beautiful, uplifting story, so very well told...” –Carlton Stowers, two-time Edgar winner  and author of Staubach: Portrait of the Brightest Star

''Now that Jim Reeves has written a book about the 2016 Alamo Bowl, the astounding result of that game has become official. It deserved nothing less.'' --Chuck Culpepper, Washington Post

''A deeply reported and well-told account of a legendary day on the gridiron. ''Even readers who have no affiliation with TCU will find themselves caught up in this tale of triumph. --Kirkus Reviews

“Reeves is the consummate journalist who will chase a story until it gives up. His work ethic shines through in Remember the Alamo Bowl.” --Jim Dent, author of Twelve Mighty Orphans: The Inspiring True Story of the Mighty Mites Who Ruled Texas Football and The Junction Boys: How Ten Days in Hell with Bear Bryant Forged a Championship Team                                 

“Veteran sports writer Jim Reeves spins a great football tale featuring backup TCU quarterback Bram Kohlhausen, down 31-0 at the half of the Alamo Bowl, who engineered one of the most unlikely comebacks in college football history. –Glenn Dromgoole, A Small Town in Texas: Reflections on Growing Up in the '50s and '60s

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Jim “Revo” Reeves, a much-lauded sports reporter and columnist at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram over four decades, covered 29 World Series, a dozen Super Bowls and numerous NBA championships and Stanley Cup Finals. 

During his career in daily journalism, he was named Texas Sports Columnist of the Year on multiple occasions by both The Associated Press Managing Editors Association and The Associated Press Sports Editors Association.

In 1987 he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the sale of the Texas Rangers to a group headed by future president George W. Bush.

He is the only sportswriter ever to be honored with the national TCU Schieffer School of Journalism Ethics Award, in 2007, and was a four-time finalist for the Baseball Writers’ Association of America Career Excellence Award.

After retiring from the Star-Telegram, he wrote an ESPN.com column and now completes assignments for the Texas Rangers Yearbook and other publications.

Reeves is the author of Dallas Cowboys: The Legends of America’s Team and Remember the Alamo Bowl: Bram Kohlhausen’s Epic TCU Comeback, published by Great Texas Line Press. He is currently finished a very personal, 50-year history of the Texas Rangers.

He and his wife Karen live in Dalworthington Gardens, Texas.