Saint Woody: The History and Fanaticism of Ohio State Football
Bob Hunter
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Description for Saint Woody: The History and Fanaticism of Ohio State Football
hardcover. The Ohio State Buckeyes have been a powerhouse in college football for decades, with numerous national championships and NFL draftees to their credit. Saint Woody: The History and Fanaticism of Ohio State Football is a Bill Bryson-style look at Ohio State football and the spiritual fanaticism that surrounds it. Num Pages: 304 pages, 24 b&w photos, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBNH; WSBT; WSBX; WSJS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 161 x 28. Weight in Grams: 598.
The Ohio State Buckeyes have been a powerhouse in college football for decades, with numerous national championships and NFL draftees to their credit. With such a successful history, it’s no wonder that the passion for Ohio State football has reached a level of devotion that has religious overtones. Saint Woody is a Bill Bryson–style look at Ohio State football and the spiritual fanaticism that surrounds it. Bob Hunter tracks the development of this powerhouse program from its earliest days to its heights under Woody Hayes, the de facto king of Ohio State football, and beyond.
Hayes led the ... Read more
The Ohio State Buckeyes have been a powerhouse in college football for decades, with numerous national championships and NFL draftees to their credit. With such a successful history, it’s no wonder that the passion for Ohio State football has reached a level of devotion that has religious overtones. Saint Woody is a Bill Bryson–style look at Ohio State football and the spiritual fanaticism that surrounds it. Bob Hunter tracks the development of this powerhouse program from its earliest days to its heights under Woody Hayes, the de facto king of Ohio State football, and beyond.
Hayes led the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Potomac Books United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Dulles, United States
ISBN
9781612342009
SKU
V9781612342009
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Bob Hunter
Bob Hunter has been a sportswriter at the Columbus Dispatch for the last thirty-four years and covered Woody Hayes’s final two years of coaching (1977–1978) as a football beat writer. In 2009 he was voted best sports columnist in Ohio by the Associated Press. The coauthor of The Buckeyes: A Story of Ohio State Football (1982) and author of Chic: The Extraordinary Rise of Ohio ... Read more
Reviews for Saint Woody: The History and Fanaticism of Ohio State Football
“Woody Hayes was bigger than life and remains so to many Ohio State fans. Bob Hunter, a perceptive and objective observer of the Buckeyes for more than three decades, also reveals the iconic coach, still revered a quarter century after his death, as so much more.”—Rusty Miller, retired Ohio sports editor, Associated Press “A big part of college football is ... Read more