Pioneer Coaches of the NFL: Shaping the Game in the Days of Leather Helmets and 60-Minute Men

by John Maxymuk

In the early days of professional football, coaches were little more than on-field captains who also ran practices-if there was time for practice. The emergence of post-graduate football and the coaching profession from 1920 to 1950 was crucial to the evolution of the game, and both developed and rose in stature over this critical period in the history of football. In Pioneer Coaches of the NFL: Shaping the Game in the Days of Leather Helmets and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 153811223X
• ISBN13: 9781538112236
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"