Stagg's University

by Robin Lester

Book Overview

For this first case study of college football by a social historian, Lester has brought life to the story of a university football program that had an unusual beginning, a glorious middle, and a unique and inglorious conclusion. The nation's first tenured coach and the most creative and entrepreneurial of all college coaches from the 1890s to the 1920s, Amos Alonzo Stagg headed a program marked by creation of the lettermans club and by the dominant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252021282
• ISBN13: 9780252021282
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 301 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"