Reading Football How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle

Name: Reading Football How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle
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ISBN: 9780807847510

ISBN-10: 0807847518

ISBN-13: 9780807847510

Edition: 1998

Authors: Michael Oriard, Alan Trachtenberg

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Is football an athletic contest or a social event? Is it a game of skill, a test of manhood, or merely an organized brawl? Michael Oriard, a former professional player, asks these and other intriguing questions inReading Football, the first contemporary book about football's formative years. American football began in the 1870s as a game to be played, not watched. Within a brief ten years, it had become a great public spectacle with an immense following, a phenomenon caused primarily by the voluminous commentary about the game conducted in popular newspapers and magazines. Oriard shows how this constant narrative in football's early years developed many different stories about what the…

Book details

List price: $47.50
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 8/31/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English