Stagg's University: The Rise Decline and Fall of Big-Time Football at Chicago (Sport and Society)
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The legendary University of Chicago football program had an unusual beginning a dazzling middle and an inglorious conclusion. Its architect: Amos Alonzo Stagg the most creative and entrepreneurial college coach of his time. A former all-American gridiron star at Yale Stagg joined an elite academic institution that boasted intellectual notables like John Dewey Thorstein Veblen and Albert Michelson. Within fifteen years the fame of Staggs football program had eclipsed even Michelsons renown as the first American citizen to win a Nobel Prize. Robin Lester follows the commercial trail blazed by Stagg and University President William Rainey Harper and the subsequent transformation of college football into a mass entertainment industry that changed campuses and captured the national imagination. Fascinating and detailed Staggs Universityreveals how the University of Chicagos football industry prefigured todays billion-dollar sport juggernaut and details the life and leadership of one of its foundational personages.
