Red Grange and the Rise of Modern Football - Rilegato

Carroll, John M.

 
9780252023842: Red Grange and the Rise of Modern Football
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ISBN 10: 0252023846 ISBN 13: 9780252023842
Casa editrice: Univ of Illinois Pr, 1999

Sinossi

Before the Super Bowl, before "Monday Night Football," even before the NFL, there was Red Grange. Catapulted into the public eye in 1924 by scoring four touchdowns in twelve minutes for the University of Illinois, the "Galloping Ghost" went on to a trailblazing career as a professional player, Hollywood football idol, and broadcaster. He ranked with Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey in the 1920s as the most heralded figures in America's "golden age of sport," and when Sports Illustrated did a special issue in 1991 on the greatest moments in sports, Grange was selected for the cover.
 
Grange's star rose in tandem with that of the sport itself. His spectacular performance as a college player coincided with football's evolution into a rallying point of university life, undergirded by post-World War I money, cars, roads, stadiums, and mass media. With a natural talent and down-home image that helped legitimize professional football, Grange became one of the first athlete-heroes and the first major sports figure to serve as a play-by-play broadcast commentator.
 
John Carroll depicts the career of this softspoken pioneer who helped lift pro football above its reputation as "a dirty little business run by rogues and bargain-basement entrepreneurs." A reluctant celebrity and folk hero, Red Grange stood throughout his life as a symbol of older, rural American values: an unpretentious self-made individual making a mark in a society increasingly controlled by machines, vast corporations, and stifling bureaucracies. His story is an essential element in understanding football's central place in American culture.
 

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Informazioni sull'autore

 
John M. Carroll is Regents&; Professor of History at Lamar University and the author of Fritz Pollard: Pioneer in Racial Advancement.
 

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Editore
Univ of Illinois Pr
Data di pubblicazione
1999
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0252023846
ISBN 13 
9780252023842
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
265
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
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Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0252071662 ISBN 13:  9780252071669
Casa editrice: Univ of Illinois Pr, 2004
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