Dreaming of Heroes: America and the Golden Age of College Football Volume 1 - Grady, Michael
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When Cyril Letzelter's family moved to the small Ohio mill community of Martins Ferry, just across the Ohio River from Wheeling, West Virginia, they figured out quickly the city had a love for football bordering on obsessive. And it's not hard to understand why. Success in football and the path it offered out of the coal mines and steel mills to the promise of higher education and opportunity was the stuff of dreams.He emerged as one of the Ohio Valley's most prominent stars when the sport was exploding into the public consciousness like never before. The 1920s are rightly considered the…mehr

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When Cyril Letzelter's family moved to the small Ohio mill community of Martins Ferry, just across the Ohio River from Wheeling, West Virginia, they figured out quickly the city had a love for football bordering on obsessive. And it's not hard to understand why. Success in football and the path it offered out of the coal mines and steel mills to the promise of higher education and opportunity was the stuff of dreams.He emerged as one of the Ohio Valley's most prominent stars when the sport was exploding into the public consciousness like never before. The 1920s are rightly considered the golden age of college football, and his path out of the valley into the national elite offers a unique window into the evolution of the game and the changes in the nation that occurred between Reconstruction and post-WWI America. Long forgotten over the years, Cyril starred in some of the biggest games of the era. His talent was recruited by major teams from Stanford on the west coast to Army in the East. His playmaking ability was feared by giants of the game like Knute Rockne. And in the end, his sometimes rocky path out of the Ohio Valley mill towns to a better life involved taking risks to get ahead and sometimes being manipulated by stronger forces beyond his reach. This is a story of America and college football, as seen through the eyes of a forgotten star, Cyril Letzelter, who deserves to be remembered again.
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Michael Grady is the 6th grandchild of Cyril Joseph Letzelter, and the youngest of Cyril's oldest child, Mary Elizabeth (Letzelter) Grady and her husband, the late W. Justin Grady. He earned his degree in History in 1992 at Eastern Illinois University. Since then, he's worked in the field of state government relations. Since 2010, he's operated his consulting firm where he works on issues supporting various local government bodies, advocating for public health and anti-tobacco policies, supporting the developmentally and intellectually disabled, and waste management and recycling.He is an avid college football fan, and despite his love for his Grandfather's exploits against Knute Rockne, he remains a rabid fan of the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame and still believes they got screwed out of the National Championship in 1989.He lives in Springfield, Illinois with his wife Alyson and their three children; Justin, Aidan, and Clare.