Pigskin Pulpit: A Social History of Texas High School Football Coaches

by Ty Cashion

Book Overview

High school football is one of the identifying institutions of twentieth-century Texas. Many consider high school football to be cast in the state's rough-hewn image. In fact, it is shaped in the image of its coaches. Pigskin Pulpit examines the men who shaped the game -- and generations of players -- in their own image. It traces the development of football and the coaching profession and explains how a schoolboy avocation became a vital part of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876111681
• ISBN13: 9780876111680
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Texas State Historical Association
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"