The Origins of Southern College Football
How an Ivy League Game Became a Dixie Tradition
College football is a massive enterprise in the United States, and southern teams dominate poll rankings and sports headlines while generating billions in revenue for public schools and private companies. Southern football fans worship their teams, often rearranging their personal lives in order to accommodate season schedules. The Origins of Southern College Football sheds new light on the South's obsession with football and explores the sport's beginnings below the Mason-Dixon Line in the decades after the Civil War. Military defeat followed by a long period of cultural unrest compelled many southerners to look to northern ideas and customs…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8071-7410-4
- EAN: 9780807174104
- Produktnummer: 33848142
- Verlag: Bonnier Publishing Fiction
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 201 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'733 KB
- Abbildungen: 10 halftones
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Andrew McIlwaine Bell
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