Stagg's University: The Rise, Decline, and Fall of Big-Time Football at Chicago (Sport and Society) - Tapa blanda

Lester, Robin

 
9780252067914: Stagg's University: The Rise, Decline, and Fall of Big-Time Football at Chicago (Sport and Society)
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ISBN 10: 0252067916 ISBN 13: 9780252067914
Editorial: University of Illinois Press, 1999

Sinopsis

The legendary University of Chicago football program had an unusual beginning, a dazzling middle, and an inglorious conclusion. Its architect: Amos Alonzo Stagg, the most creative and entrepreneurial college coach of his time. A former all-American gridiron star at Yale, Stagg joined an elite academic institution that boasted intellectual notables like John Dewey, Thorstein Veblen, and Albert Michelson. Within fifteen years, the fame of Stagg's football program had eclipsed even Michelson's renown as the first American citizen to win a Nobel Prize. 

Robin Lester follows the commercial trail blazed by Stagg and University President William Rainey Harper and the subsequent transformation of college football into a mass entertainment industry that changed campuses and captured the national imagination. Fascinating and detailed, Stagg's Universityreveals how the University of Chicago's football industry prefigured today's billion-dollar sport juggernaut and details the life and leadership of one of its foundational personages.

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Robin Lester is a retired professor and headmaster. He taught at the University of Chicago, Columbia College, and Pepperdine University and is the author of Princes of New York.

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Editorial
University of Illinois Press
Año de publicación
1999
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0252067916
ISBN 13 
9780252067914
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
344
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