[Mobile book] Stagg's University: The Rise, Decline, and Fall of Big-Time Football at Chicago (Sport and Society)
☆ Robin Lester ☆
| #1893657 in Books | 1999-01-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.70 x6.00l,1.24 | File Name: 0252067916 | 344 pages
||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| When The Rules Fail To Come Into Play|By Best Of All|Author Robin Lester chronicles the program - a national power from 1892-1939 - which captured a pair of national titles and seven Big Ten Conference (Western Conference) championships, along with having the first Heisman Trophy winner - halfback Jay Berwanger, 1935 - before the university abandoned the sport from 1940-1962.<||"Lester's attractive study of (Stagg) has provided an important contribution both to the history of American football and the general history of sport."|-- International Journal of the History of Sport
A case study of college football. It looks at the birth of bigtime college sport, showing how gridiron glory and scandal were prefigured in Chicago's football industry of the early twentieth century, presided over by the brilliant, combative, saintly, but very human Amos Alonzo Stagg.
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