Gridiron Generals: A Hard-hitting History of College Football - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gridiron Generals: A Hard-hitting History of College Football write by History Channel. This book was released on . Gridiron Generals: A Hard-hitting History of College Football available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A History of College Football in Georgia: Glory on the Gridiron
A History of College Football in Georgia: Glory on the Gridiron - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of College Football in Georgia: Glory on the Gridiron write by Jon Nelson. This book was released on 2012-08-07. A History of College Football in Georgia: Glory on the Gridiron available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Gridiron Glory Days
Gridiron Glory Days - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gridiron Glory Days write by Robert E. Wilder. This book was released on 2011. Gridiron Glory Days available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ¿The ball was round, the equpiment was homemade, and the rules were uncertain, but that game the boys were playing on the lawn at Mercer University in 1892 was football....¿ Thus begins this colorful history of football at Mercer University, 1892-1942. Mercer had only 179 registered students in 1892 when the first Mercer eleven met the first Georgia eleven on the gridiron in Athens in January 1892, the FIRST college football game in the state of Georgia, and one of the first in the Southeast. College football in 1892 was a far cry from the organized splendor it is today. Uniforms were makeshift, with little or no padding. Players begin growing their ¿helmets¿ or ¿head pads¿ in early summer, and rumor has it that those long, bushy manes prompted Mercer¿s nickname--the Bears. It was a rough-and-tumble, disorganized free-for-all on the 110x53 yard field. Touchdowns counted four points; extra points, two; field goals, five; and safeties, two. But all those interesting facts--and many more--are included in this exciting chronicle. For fifty years Mercer played against the the great (Alabama, Army, Georgia, Florida, and others) and the nearly great (Savannah Library Association, Locust Grove Institute, North Georgia Aggies). Alas, college football eventually became a big (and expensive) business, and with the US facing world war, the last Mercer team was fielded in 1941. But, beginning in Fall 2013, the Mercer Bears will once again take the field following a seventy-year hiatus. This time, however, the helmets are much improved.
The Rise of Gridiron University
The Rise of Gridiron University - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rise of Gridiron University write by Brian M. Ingrassia. This book was released on 2015-12-04. The Rise of Gridiron University available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The quarterback sends his wide receiver deep. The crowd gasps as he launches the ball. And when he hits his man, the team's fans roar with approval-especially those with the deep pockets. Make no mistake; college football is big business, played with one eye on the score, the other on the bottom line. But was this always the case? Brian M. Ingrassia here offers the most incisive account to date of the origins of college football, tracing the sport's evolution from a gentlemen's pastime to a multi-million dollar enterprise that made athletics a permanent fixture on our nation's campuses and cemented college football's place in American culture. He takes readers back to the late 1800s to tell how schools embraced the sport as a way to get the public interested in higher learning-and then how football's immediate popularity overwhelmed campuses and helped create the beast we know today. Contrary to conventional wisdom, Ingrassia proves that the academy did not initially resist the inclusion of athletics; rather, progressive reformers and professors embraced football as a way to make the ivory tower less elitist. With its emphasis on disciplined teamwork and spectatorship, football was seen as a "middlebrow" way to make the university more accessible to the general public. What it really did was make athletics a permanent fixture on campus with its own set of professional experts, bureaucracies, and ostentatious cathedrals. Ingrassia examines the early football programs at universities like Michigan, Stanford, Ohio State, and others, then puts those histories in the context of Progressive Era culture, including insights from coaches like Georgia Tech's John Heisman and Notre Dame's Knute Rockne. He describes how reforms emerged out of incidents such as Teddy Roosevelt's son being injured on the field and a section of grandstands collapsing at the University of Chicago. He also touches on some of the problems facing current day college football and shows us that we haven't come far from those initial arguments more than a century ago. The Rise of Gridiron University shows us where and how it all began, highlighting college football's essential role in shaping the modern university-and by extension American intellectual culture. It should have wide appeal among students of American studies and sports history, as well as fans of college football curious to learn how their game became a cultural force in a matter of a few decades.
Neyland
Neyland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Neyland write by Bob Gilbert. This book was released on 1990. Neyland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
