“Too Good to Be Through” is a breezy, often lighthearted walk through 125 years of what Bud Withers calls the most distinctive college-football rivalry in the country – the Apple Cup, pitting Washington against Washington State.

 

The foundation of the book is a game-by-game account of that century and a quarter, beginning with the debut game in 1900. But it’s much more than that. The book captures the tone of each program’s season and the occasional, longstanding friction between the two schools. That engaging subtext provides the framework for a rivalry dominated by Washington yet invariably made interesting by Washington State.

 

As much as the on-field accounts, readers will delight in the pageantry of the series – pranks, unlikely alliances of Huskies and Cougars, relationships both warm and wary that make this rivalry one of the country’s most underrated. Click here to learn more about Bud's writing process for "Too Good to Be Through".