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portada The Opening Kickoff: The Tumultuous Birth of a Football Nation
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Language
English
Pages
320
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9780762791774
Edition No.
1

The Opening Kickoff: The Tumultuous Birth of a Football Nation

Dave Revsine (Author) · Lyons Press · Hardcover

The Opening Kickoff: The Tumultuous Birth of a Football Nation - Dave Revsine

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Synopsis "The Opening Kickoff: The Tumultuous Birth of a Football Nation"

A New York Times Bestseller and Boston Globe Bestseller! It's America's most popular sport, played by thousands, watched by millions, and generating billions in revenues every year. It's also America's most controversial sport, haunted by the specter of life-threatening injuries and plagued by scandal, even among its most venerable personalities and institutions. At the college level, we often tie football's tales of corruption and greed to its current popularity and revenue potential, and we have vague notions of a halcyon time--before the new College Football Playoff, power conferences, and huge TV contracts. Perhaps we conjure images of young Ivy Leaguers playing a gentleman's game, exemplifying the collegial in collegiate. What we don't imagine is a game described in 1905 as "a social obsession--this boy-killing, man-mutilating, education-prostituting, gladiatorial sport." In The Opening Kickoff, Dave Revsine tells the riveting story of the formative period of American football between 1890 and 1915. In just a quarter century football spread across the nation, captivating people from coast to coast. It was a time that saw the game's meteoric rise, fueled by overflow crowds, breathless newspaper coverage, and newfound superstars--including one of the most thrilling and mysterious the sport has ever seen. But it was also a period racked by controversy in academics, recruiting, and physical brutality that, in combination, threatened football's very existence. A vivid storyteller, Revsine brings it all to life in this captivating narrative.

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