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Onward to Victory: The Creation of Modern College Sports
Murray Sperber
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| #2853316 in Books | 1998-11-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.46 x1.85 x6.54l, | File type: PDF | 614 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Enough of Notre Dame, already.|By JohnVidale|I could only make it a third of the way into the book. The themes are just too repetitive and the ratio of moralizing to anecdotes is too high. The simultaneous exposé of Notre Dame missteps and lauding of current affairs (despite recent well-publicized incidents of misbehavior at Notre Dame with only hand-slapping punishmen|.com |Sperber's thesis is a tempter from the get-go: "No other American institution has experienced greater crises and scandals than big-time college sports," he writes, "and yet it has not only survived all of them but thrived. Moreover, the problems never end
From the acclaimed author of Shake Down the Thunder.
With the 1940 release of the classic film Knute Rockne, All American, the myth of the hero scholar-athlete was born, and with it came the age of big-time college sports in America. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, including press accounts, letters and diaries, historical papers, and interviews with many who were there, Sperber recounts how the myths created by Hollywood studios were embellished...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Onward to Victory: The Creation of Modern College Sports | Murray Sperber. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.