Peter Gent, “North Dallas Forty” author, dies
He was 69. Gent had been ailing in lieu of months and died Friday from a pulmonary illness on his boyhood domestic voguish Bangor voguish western Michigan, anywhere he had lived since 1990, his teenager hauler Gent supposed Saturday. Gent was a star basketball player by the side of Michigan State University modish the 1960s. He didnt mess about college football but got an NFL audition with the Dallas Cowboys now 1964 and played five seasons with the team. His 1973 novel North Dallas Forty dealt with drugs, gender, greed and self-preservation clothed in pro football. It was made into a show six years soon, starring scratch Nolte being an aging player and Mac Davis being a quarterback.