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- catalog abstract ""Every autumn American football fans pack large college stadiums or crowd around grassy fields to root for their favorite teams. Most are unaware that this most popular American sport was created by the teams that now make up the Ivy League. From the day Princeton played the first intercollegiate game in 1869, these major schools of the northeast - Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale - shaped football as we now know it. Almost every facet of the game still bears their imprint: they created the All-America team, produced the first coaches, devised the basic rules, invented many of the strategies, developed much of the equipment, and even named the positions. Both the Heisman and Outland trophies are named for Ivy League players. Crowds of 80,000 no longer attend Ivy League games as they did seventy years ago, and Ivy teams are not the powerhouses they once were, but at times they can still be a step ahead of the rest of football, as in 1973 when Brown and Penn started the first black quarterbacks to face each other in a major college game." "In this rich history, Bernstein shows that much of the culture that surrounds American football, both good and bad, has its roots in the Ivy League."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12269791.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Every autumn American football fans pack large college stadiums or crowd around grassy fields to root for their favorite teams. Most are unaware that this most popular American sport was created by the teams that now make up the Ivy League. From the day Princeton played the first intercollegiate game in 1869, these major schools of the northeast - Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale - shaped football as we now know it. Almost every facet of the game still bears their imprint: they created the All-America team, produced the first coaches, devised the basic rules, invented many of the strategies, developed much of the equipment, and even named the positions. Both the Heisman and Outland trophies are named for Ivy League players. Crowds of 80,000 no longer attend Ivy League games as they did seventy years ago, and Ivy teams are not the powerhouses they once were, but at times they can still be a step ahead of the rest of football, as in 1973 when Brown and Penn started the first black quarterbacks to face each other in a major college game." "In this rich history, Bernstein shows that much of the culture that surrounds American football, both good and bad, has its roots in the Ivy League."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-319) and index.".
- catalog description "The Big Three -- Making the rules as you go along -- Wonderful to behold and terrible to stop -- More work for the undertaker -- The sign we hail -- Team of destiny -- Red ink -- Medium-time football -- The Ivy League -- A well-rounded class -- What is this thing called "winning"? -- The modern game -- Appendix : Head coaches ; Cumulative and Ivy League records -- Ivy league champions -- Ivy League national champions -- Ivy League 1981 Silver Anniversary All-Star Team.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 336 p., [8] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0812236270 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "796.332/63/0974 21".
- catalog subject "Football United States History.".
- catalog subject "GV958.5.I9 B47 2001".
- catalog subject "Ivy League (Football conference)".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Big Three -- Making the rules as you go along -- Wonderful to behold and terrible to stop -- More work for the undertaker -- The sign we hail -- Team of destiny -- Red ink -- Medium-time football -- The Ivy League -- A well-rounded class -- What is this thing called "winning"? -- The modern game -- Appendix : Head coaches ; Cumulative and Ivy League records -- Ivy league champions -- Ivy League national champions -- Ivy League 1981 Silver Anniversary All-Star Team.".
- catalog title "Football : the Ivy League origins of an American obsession / Mark F. Bernstein.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".