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Stagg vs. Yost : the birth of cutthroat football

Title: Stagg vs. Yost : the birth of cutthroat football / John Kryk.
Author: Kryk, John.
Publication: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]

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Description

ix, 349 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

This book brings to life the story of two college football coaches in the early 1900s who would do almost anything to win-Amos Alonzo Stagg of the University of Chicago and Fielding H. Yost of the University of Michigan. It recounts their bitter rivalry and the lengths each went to in order to gain victory on the football field.

Alternative Title

Stagg versus Yost

Subjects

Genre/Form

Biography
Biographies.
History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Before 1901. The praying pitcher: Amos Alonzo Stagg -- Judicious expenditures of money -- The cleanest team on Earth -- Closed fists, closed eyes, closed minds -- The human hurricane: Fielding H. Yost -- 1901-1905. 1901 off the field: coast-to-coast Yost -- 1901 on the field: hurrying up, eating everybody up -- 1902 off the field: Stagg's empire fights back -- 1902 on the field: a point a minute -- 1903 off the field: football's greatest interception -- 1903 on the field: incredibly, Mich-again -- 1904 off the field: Alabaster Alonzo Stagg -- 1904 on the field: authentication denied -- 1905 off the field: the nadir -- 1905 on the field: equal to the task -- Aftermath. Fully dismantled -- Fates.

ISBN

9781442248250
1442248254
9781442248267
1442248262

LCCN

2015005157

OCLC

ocn907111576
907111576
SCSB-14140423

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library