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Author : Bob Wood
Release : 1990
Genre : Sports & Recreation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 018/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Big Ten Country by : Bob Wood
Download or read book Big Ten Country written by Bob Wood. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Winton U Solberg
Release : 2018-03-21
Genre : Sports & Recreation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 258/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Creating the Big Ten by : Winton U Solberg
Download or read book Creating the Big Ten written by Winton U Solberg. This book was released on 2018-03-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big Ten football fans pack gridiron cathedrals that hold up to 100,000 spectators. The conference's fourteen member schools share a broadcast network and a 2016 media deal worth $2.64 billion. This cultural and financial colossus grew out of a modest 1895 meeting that focused on football's brutality and encroaching professionalism in the game. Winton U. Solberg explores the relationship between higher education and collegiate football in the Big Ten's first fifty years. This formative era saw debates over eligibility and amateurism roil the sport. In particular, faculty concerned with academics clashed with coaches, university presidents, and others who played to win. Solberg follows the conference's successful early efforts to put the best interests of institutions and athletes first. Yet, as he shows, commercial concerns undid such work after World War I as sports increasingly eclipsed academics. By the 1940s, the Big Ten's impact on American sports was undeniable. It had shaped the development of intercollegiate athletics and college football nationwide while serving as a model for other athletic conferences.
Author : Gregory Richards
Release : 1987
Genre : Sports & Recreation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 526/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Big Ten Football by : Gregory Richards
Download or read book Big Ten Football written by Gregory Richards. This book was released on 1987. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gabriel Kaufman
Release : 2007-08-15
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 205/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Football in the Big Ten by : Gabriel Kaufman
Download or read book Football in the Big Ten written by Gabriel Kaufman. This book was released on 2007-08-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the history and individual teams of the Big Ten football conference.
Author : John U. Bacon
Release : 2013-09-03
Genre : Sports & Recreation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 441/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Fourth and Long by : John U. Bacon
Download or read book Fourth and Long written by John U. Bacon. This book was released on 2013-09-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author and Michigan football expert John Back, an analysis of the state of college football: Why we love the game, what is at risk, and the fight to save it. In search of the sport’s old ideals amid the roaring flood of hypocrisy and greed, bestselling author John U. Bacon embedded himself in four college football programs—Penn State, Ohio State, Michigan, and Northwestern—and captured the oldest, biggest, most storied league, the Big Ten, at its tipping point. He sat in as coaches dissected game film, he ate dinner at training tables, and he listened in locker rooms. He talked with tailgating fans and college presidents, and he spent months in the company of the gifted young athletes who play the game. Fourth and Long reveals intimate scenes behind closed doors, from a team’s angry face-off with their athletic director to a defensive lineman acing his master’s exams in theoretical math. It captures the private moment when coach Urban Meyer earned the devotion of Ohio State’s Buckeyes on their way to a perfect season. It shows Michigan’s athletic department endangering the very traditions that distinguish the college game from all others. And it re-creates the euphoria of the Northwestern Wildcats winning their first bowl game in decades. Most unforgettably, Fourth and Long finds what the national media missed in the ugly aftermath of Penn State’s tragic scandal: the unheralded story of players who joined forces with Coach Bill O’Brien to save the university’s treasured program—and with it, a piece of the game’s soul. This is the work of a writer in love with an old game—a game he sees at the precipice. Bacon’s deep knowledge of sports history and his sensitivity to the tribal subcultures of the college game power this elegy to a beloved and endangered American institution.
