Stagg's University: The Rise, Decline, and Fall of Big-Time Football at Chicago

(Part of the Sport and Society Series)

by Robin Lester

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0252067916

ISBN13:9780252067914

Release Date:January 1999

Publisher:University of Illinois Press

Length:344 Pages

Weight:1.13 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Related Subjects

Football (American) History of Sports Miscellaneous Sports & Outdoors Sports & Recreation

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