Stagg's University: The Rise, Decline, and Fall of Big-Time Football at Chicago

by Robin Lester

Book Overview

The legendary University of Chicago football program had an unusual beginning, a dazzling middle, and an inglorious conclusion. Its architect: Amos Alonzo Stagg, the most creative and entrepreneurial college coach of his time. A former all-American gridiron star at Yale, Stagg joined an elite academic institution that boasted intellectual notables like John Dewey, Thorstein Veblen, and Albert Michelson. Within fifteen years, the fame of Stagg's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252067916
• ISBN13: 9780252067914
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"