Big-Time Football at Harvard, 1905: The Diary of Coach Bill Reid
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In 1905, twenty-six-year-old Bill Reid, a former Harvard athlete, was wooed back to the campus by the offer of a salary higher than that of any faculty member and approaching that of long-time... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0252020472
ISBN13:9780252020476
Release Date:January 1994
Publisher:University of Illinois Press
Length:354 Pages
Weight:1.55 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"
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Early football in America.
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Over a century ago coach Bill Reid fussed over his athletes just like many a contemporary coach with similar players and problems. Reid just plain had to beat Yale. His diary is so open, so confessional as to make for compelling reading, down to the intimacies with his wife. This is valuable document of cultural-social history that transcneds mere football.
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