Table of Contents

Acknowledgments  /  ix

Introduction  /  1
Prologue: The Game the War Made  /  7
1. Pasadena: The Terms of Postwar Football  /  17
2. Columbus: Struggling for the Soul of the Cold War University  /  47
3. Baton Rouge: Postwar Football and a Fate Worse Than Integration  /  80
4. Tuscaloosa: The Pariah of Postwar Football  /  116
5. Westwood: College Football and Cold War Dissent  /  155
Conclusion  /  195

Notes  /  203
Bibliography  /  245
Index  /  259

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Waging the Cold War's ideological battles on the gridiron

About the Author

Kurt Edward Kemper is an associate professor of history at Dakota State University.

Reviews

"A provocative, richly detailed, and deeply researched study of college football's role as an embodiment of defiantly 'American' values during the Cold War. An important contribution to sports history and a model of exemplary research." Michael Oriard, author of The End of Autumn: Reflections on My Life in Football