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9780252071669
Red Grange and the Rise of Modern Football

Red Grange and the Rise of Modern Football

Baltimore (US) : University of Illinois Press, 2004-07-31
Libro/Ed. Economica : pag. 296 229x152 cm.
Ean/Isbn: 9780252071669 (0-252-07166-2)
Lingua: Inglese
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Data di spedizione prevista: 2001-01-16 (beta!) Data di spedizione prevista: 2001-01-16
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Before the Super Bowl, before Monday Night Football, even before the NFL, there was Red Grange. This title depicts the career of this soft spoken pioneer who helped lift pro football above its reputation as a dirty little business run by rogues and bargain-basement entrepreneurs.
Before the Super Bowl, before "Monday Night Football", even before the NFL, there was Red Grange. Catapulted into the public eye in 1924 by scoring four touchdowns in twelve minutes for the University of Illinois, the "Galloping Ghost" went on to a trailblazing career as a professional player, Hollywood football idol, and broadcaster. He ranked with Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey in the 1920s as the most heralded figures in America's "golden age of sport", and when "Sports Illustrated" did a special issue in 1991 on the greatest moments in sports, Grange was selected for the cover. Grange's star rose in tandem with that of the sport itself. His spectacular performance as a college player coincided with football's evolution into a rallying point of university life, undergirded by post-World War I money, cars, roads, stadiums, and mass media. With a natural talent and down-home image that helped legitimize professional football, Grange became one of the first athlete-heroes and the first major sports figure to serve as a play-by-play broadcast commentator. John Carroll depicts the career of this soft spoken pioneer who helped lift pro football above its reputation as "a dirty little business run by rogues and bargain-basement entrepreneurs". A reluctant celebrity and folk hero, Red Grange stood throughout his life as a symbol of older, rural American values: an unpretentious self-made individual making a mark in a society increasingly controlled by machines, vast corporations, and stifling bureaucracies. His story is an essential element in understanding football's central place in American culture.
Dewey: 796.332092 (DC21) Cerca altri su questo argomento
Library of Congress: Football - United States - History
Library of Congress: Football players - United States - Biography
Library of Congress: Grange, Red
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  • American football (WSJS)
  • Biography: sport (BGS)
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  • (BIO016000)
  • SPORTS & RECREATION / History (SPO019000)
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