Stagg S University

Author : Robin Lester
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0252067916

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Stagg's University by Robin Lester Pdf

For this first case study of college football by a social historian, Lester has brought life to the story of a university football program that had an unusual beginning, a glorious middle, and a unique and inglorious conclusion. The nation's first tenured coach and the most creative and entrepreneurial of all college coaches from the 1890s to the 1920s, Amos Alonzo Stagg headed a program marked by creation of the lettermans club and by the dominant use of the forward pass, of jersey numbers, and of the collegiate modern T formation. Stagg, who had been an all-American football player at Yale University, joined the company of nine former college or seminary presidents and academic notables including John Dewey, Thorstein Veblen, and Albert Michelson when he was named associate professor of physical culture and coach of the football team at the University of Chicago in 1892. Within fifteen years the charismatic Stagg had developed a program so powerful that more Americans knew of it than of the physics experiments of Michelson, who in 1907 became the first U.S. citizen to win the Nobel Prize. The logical commercial trail established by Stagg and University President William Rainey Harper helped change football into a mass entertainment industry on American campuses. This fascinating look at the birth of bigtime college sport shows how today s 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.

Author : David E. Sumner
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-27
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476685762

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Amos Alonzo Stagg by David E. Sumner Pdf

Amos Alonzo Stagg (1862-1965) grew up one of eight children in a poor New Jersey family, graduated high school at 21 and worked his way through Yale. His goal was to become a Presbyterian minister, but he dropped out of Yale Divinity School because he felt he could have more influence on young men through coaching. He was hired as the first football coach at University of Chicago after its founding in 1892. Under Stagg's leadership, Chicago emerged as one of the nation's most formidable football teams during the early 20th century, winning seven Big Ten championships and two national championships. After Chicago forced him to retire at 70, Stagg found another coaching position at College of the Pacific, where he was forced to retire at 84. He found another job and never fully retired from coaching until he was 98. His marriage to his wife Stella--his de facto assistant coach--lasted almost 70 years. Sports Illustrated wrote of him, "If any single individual can be said to have created today's game, Stagg is the man. He either invented outright or pioneered every aspect of the modern game from...the huddle, shift and tackling dummy to such refinements as the T-formation strategy." This biography tells the story of his life and many innovations, which made him one of the great pioneers of college football.

Author : Donald D. Housley
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 1575911124

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Susquehanna University, 1858-2000 by Donald D. Housley Pdf

Susquehanna University's history from 1858 to 2000 has occurred in three stages, each expressing a different mission. The school was founded in 1858 as the Missionary Institute of the Evangelical Lutheran Church to fulfill the vision of the Rev. Benjamin Kurtz, a Lutheran cleric and editor of the Lutheran Observer. He was a partisan of the American Lutheran viewpoint caught up in a fratricidal battle with Lutheran orthodoxy. The Missionary Institute sustained his viewpoint in the preparation, gratis, of men called to preach the gospel in foreign and home missions. A complementary purpose was to educate young people in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania at both the Institute and its sister school, the Susquehanna Female College. When the Female College folded in 1873, the Institute became coeducational.

Author : Pamela Grundy,Benjamin G Rader
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315509235

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American Sports by Pamela Grundy,Benjamin G Rader Pdf

American Sports offers a reflective, analytical history of American sports from the colonial era to the present. Readers will focus on the diverse relationships between sports and class, gender, race, ethnicity, religion and region, and understand how these interactions can bind diverse groups together. By considering the economic, social and cultural factors that have surrounded competitive sports, readers will understand how sports have reinforced or challenged the values and behaviors of society.

Author : John R. Thelin
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781421428833

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A History of American Higher Education by John R. Thelin Pdf

Anyone studying the history of this institution in America must read Thelin's classic text, which has distinguished itself as the most wide-ranging and engaging account of the origins and evolution of America's institutions of higher learning.

Author : Jennifer Taylor Hall
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467145220

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Amos Alonzo Stagg: College Football's Man in Motion by Jennifer Taylor Hall Pdf

Inside the life of Amos Alonzo Stagg, a man who not only witnessed great change, but was responsible for much of it in college football. The arc of Amos Alonzo Stagg's life spanned the presidencies of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. His career flourished on the Chicago Midway and found an encore on California's Pacific coast and in Pennsylvania's Susquehanna Valley. Stagg pioneered use of the tackling dummy, the huddle, the forward pass, the shift, the man-in-motion, the quick kick and the short punt. He developed the raw talent of young men with little or no athletic background long before the age of scholarship athletes, and his championship teams at the University of Chicago established the school's national reputation before it became famous for producing Nobel laureates. He helped shape the modern Olympic Games, and the coaching tree he nurtured continues to bear fruit in football programs across the country. Author Jennifer Taylor Hall traces the remarkable life of the Grand Old Man of Football.

Author : Gerald R. Gems
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780803222168

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The Athletic Crusade by Gerald R. Gems Pdf

The Athletic Crusade is the first book to systematically analyze the role of sports in the expansion of U.S. empire from the 1890s through World War II. Gerald R. Gems details how white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant males set the standard for inclusion within American society, transferred that standard to foreign territories, and subtly used American sports to instill allegedly desirable racial, moral, and commercial virtues in colonial subjects. In the realm of such expansion, sports provided a less harsh, less militaristic means of instilling belief in a dominant system?s values and principles than more overt methods such as war. The process of change, however, had unexpected consequences as subordinate groups adapted or even rejected American overtures. Sport became a means for nonwhites to challenge whiteness, Social Darwinism, and cultural hegemony by establishing their own physical prowess, claiming a measure of esteem, and creating a greater sense of national identity. Gems shows the direct influence of sports in Hawaii, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic and explores their comparatively minimal influence in countries such as China and Japan. Amid increasing globalization, The Athletic Crusade offers a welcome perspective on how the United States has attempted to spread its influence in the past and the implications for the future of indigenous and other societies.

Author : Gerald R. Gems
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0810836858

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For Pride, Profit, and Patriarchy by Gerald R. Gems Pdf

Sports history has emerged as a popular study over the past quarter century, and scholars have fueled this interest by providing a wealth of information on baseball and its role in American culture. Despite this increasing focus on the connection between sports and societal values, football, the sport that emerged in the late nineteenth century and merged the values of winning and commercialization with the culture of higher education, has been left relatively unexplored. This gap in sports history has left many questions unanswered, including football's link to American cultural values. Gerald R. Gems has filled this gap in sports history with his latest title, For Pride, Profit, and Patriarchy: Football and the Incorporation of American Cultural Values. This intriguing resource covers a host of issues including the rise of football, football and feminism, militarism and leadership training, and multiculturalism in football. A broad and comprehensive analysis of the ways in which football addressed the cultural and ideological tensions within American society during its period of development and consolidation after the Civil War, this study is ideal for everyone from the football enthusiast to the general reader.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Ann Arbor (Mich.)
ISBN : UOM:39015039251924

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Chapin's City Directory of Ann Arbor ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Steven A. Riess,Gerald R. Gems
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252076152

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The Chicago Sports Reader by Steven A. Riess,Gerald R. Gems Pdf

A celebration of the fast, the strong, the agile, and the tricky throughout Chicago's storied sports history

Author : Raymond Schmidt
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0815608861

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Shaping College Football by Raymond Schmidt Pdf

Raymond Schmidt examines the many factors that were a part of college football's reshaping in the 1920s as the universities became dependent upon the revenue being generated by football, and the sport increasingly became identified as a commercialized, big business activity; all of it being played out against a backdrop of struggle between the academic and athletic factions over control of intercollegiate sport's place in the lives of the students and the university community. This is the most detailed examination ever undertaken of college football's "Golden Era," and the topics discussed range from the shift of power away from the game's pioneering schools, through the real evolution of forward passing, to stadium building and the decade-long struggle over the game's growing over-emphasis that culminated in the legendary Carnegie Report of 1929. Including chapters on college football's class-oriented opposition to professional football during the decade, the rise of the sport at the Catholic colleges and the historically Black colleges, and some of the major scandals and disputes involving the universities, Shaping College Football also contributes to the study of sport and culture.

Author : Charles DeMotte
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780803296435

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James T. Farrell and Baseball by Charles DeMotte Pdf

James T. Farrell and Baseball is a social history of baseball on Chicago’s South Side, drawing on the writings of novelist James T. Farrell along with historical sources. Charles DeMotte shows how baseball in the early decades of the twentieth century developed on all levels and in all areas of Chicago, America’s second largest city at the time, and how that growth intertwined with Farrell’s development as a fan and a writer who used baseball as one of the major themes of his work. DeMotte goes beyond Farrell’s literary focus to tell a larger story about baseball on Chicago’s South Side during this time—when Charles Comiskey’s White Sox won two World Series and were part of a rich baseball culture that was widely played at the amateur, semipro, and black ball levels. DeMotte highlights the 1919–20 Black Sox fix and scandal, which traumatized not only Farrell and Chicago but also baseball and the broader culture. By tying Farrell’s fictional and nonfictional works to Chicago’s vibrant baseball history, this book fills an important gap in the history of baseball during the Deadball Era.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : College teachers
ISBN : UOM:39015076413015

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The National Faculty Directory by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ronald A. Smith
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780801876929

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Play-by-Play by Ronald A. Smith Pdf

Noted sports historian writes on the relationship of the media to college athletics. Chosen as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003 by Choice Magazine The phenomenal popularity of college athletics owes as much to media coverage of games as it does to drum-beating alumni and frantic undergraduates. Play-by-play broadcasts of big college games began in the 1920s via radio, a medium that left much to the listener's imagination and stoked interest in college football. After World War II, the rise of television brought with it network-NCAA deals that reeked of money and fostered bitter jealousies between have and have-not institutions. In Play-by-Play: Radio, Television, and Big-Time College Sport noted author and sports insider Ronald A. Smith examines the troubled relationship between higher education and the broadcasting industry, the effects of TV revenue on college athletics (notably football), and the odds of achieving meaningful reform. Beginning with the early days of radio, Smith describes the first bowl game broadcasts, the media image of Notre Dame and coach Knute Rockne, and the threat broadcasting seemed to pose to college football attendance. He explores the beginnings of television, the growth of networks, the NCAA decision to control football telecasts, the place of advertising, the role of TV announcers, and the threat of NCAA "Robin Hoods" and the College Football Association to NCAA television control. Taking readers behind the scenes, he explains the culture of the college athletic department and reveals the many ways in which broadcasting dollars make friends in the right places. Play-by-Play is an eye-opening look at the political infighting invariably produced by the deadly combination of university administrators, athletic czars, and huge revenue.

Author : Richard Whittingham
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : College sports
ISBN : 9780743222198

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Rites of Autumn by Richard Whittingham Pdf

Chronicles the history of college football from its first games in 1901 through the major tournaments of the twenty-first century.