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Shaping College Football: The Transformation of an American Sport, 1919-1930 (Sports and Entertainment)
Raymond Schmidt
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Description for Shaping College Football: The Transformation of an American Sport, 1919-1930 (Sports and Entertainment)
Hardcover. Tells the story of the intercollegiate gridiron sport in the years immediately after World War I when the game underwent monumental changes that transformed it into one of America's fundamental sporting attractions and a commercial entity that would be recognizable to any twenty-first century fan. Series: Sports and Entertainment. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; HBTB; JNM; WSJS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 26. Weight in Grams: 730.
Shaping College Football is the story of the intercollegiate gridiron sport in the years immediately after World War I when the game underwent monumental changes that transformed it into one of America's fundamental sporting attractions and a commercial entity that would be recognizable to any twenty-first century fan. Raymond Schmidt examines the many factors that were a part of college football's reshaping in the 1920s as universities became dependent upon the revenue being generated by football, and the sport increasingly became identified as a commercialized, big business activity. Offering the most detailed examination ever undertaken of college football's ""Golden Era,"" ... Read more
Shaping College Football is the story of the intercollegiate gridiron sport in the years immediately after World War I when the game underwent monumental changes that transformed it into one of America's fundamental sporting attractions and a commercial entity that would be recognizable to any twenty-first century fan. Raymond Schmidt examines the many factors that were a part of college football's reshaping in the 1920s as universities became dependent upon the revenue being generated by football, and the sport increasingly became identified as a commercialized, big business activity. Offering the most detailed examination ever undertaken of college football's ""Golden Era,"" ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Series
Sports and Entertainment
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815608868
SKU
V9780815608868
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About Raymond Schmidt
Raymond Schmidt is the author of Two-eyed League: The Illinois-Iowa of 1890-1892 and Football's Stars of Summer. He lives in Ventura, Ca.
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