Keith Mcclellan

Sunday Game (eBook, ePUB)

At the Dawn of Professional Football

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the most complete and compelling account of the origins of professional football, The Sunday Game tells the stories of all the teams that played independent football in the small towns and industrial cities of the Midwest, from early in the twentieth century to the beginning of the National Football League shortly after the end of World War I. The foundations of what is now the most popular professional sport in America were laid by such teams as the Canton Bulldogs and the Hammond Clabbys, teams born out of civic pride and the enthusiasm of the blue-collar crowds who found, in the rough pleasure of the football field, the gritty equivalent of their own lives, a game they could cheer on Sunday afternoons, their only day free from work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Akron Press
• Seitenzahl: 503
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 1998
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781935603412
• Artikelnr.: 38373791

Autorenporträt

Keith McClellan lives in Oak Park, Michigan, where he edits Employee Assistance Quarterly. He has a B.A. from the University of Northern Iowa and did graduate work at the University of Chicago. He is a member of the Professional Football Researchers Association and the North American Society for Sport History. He has published sixty articles in a variety of journals.