From Sandlots to the Super Bowl: The National Football League, 1920-1967

by Craig R. Coenen

Book Overview

The National Football League that celebrated its first Super Bowl in 1967 bore scant resemblance to the league of its obscure origins. In its earliest years, the league was a ragtag collection of locally supported small-town teams that generated attention only in the locales in which they played, if they were lucky. Many teams received no support at all. Only after enduring a slow, often treacherous, journey did the enterprise of professional football...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572334479
• ISBN13: 9781572334472
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 0.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"