Football: The Ivy League Origins of an American ObsessionUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 19. sep. 2001 - 336 strani Every autumn American football fans pack large college stadiums or crowd around grassy fields to root for their favorite teams. Most are unaware that this most popular American sport was created by the teams that now make up the Ivy League. From the day Princeton played the first intercollegiate game in 1869, these major schools of the northeast—Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale—shaped football as we now know it. Almost every facet of the game still bears their imprint: they created the All-America team, produced the first coaches, devised the basic rules, invented many of the strategies, developed much of the equipment, and even named the positions. Both the Heisman and Outland trophies are named for Ivy League players. |
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The Big Three 3 | xiv |
Making the Rules As You Go Along | 17 |
Wonderful to Behold and Terrible to Stop | 41 |
More Work for the Undertaker | 67 |
The Sign We Hail | 95 |
Team of Destiny | 117 |
Red Ink | 143 |
MediumTime Football | 171 |
Chapter IO A WellRounded Class | 215 |
I What Is This Thing Called Winning? | 235 |
2 The Modern Game | 251 |
Appendix | 269 |
Notes | 281 |
Bibliography | 311 |
Index | 321 |
Acknowledgments | 335 |