Robin Lester is a retired professor and headmaster. He taught at the University of Chicago, Columbia College, and Pepperdine University and is the author of Princes of New York.
Winner of the North American Society for Sports History Book Award,
1996.
"This volume is academically solid, scrupulously researched, and
written with style. . . . Lester's narrative is compelling, and, in
short, if you want to understand the place of intercollegiate
athletics in the larger American society in the twentieth century,
this volume is the place to start."--Ronald A. Smith, Journal
of Sport History
"This splendid biography of a famous coach is, among other things,
a brilliant commentary on football's role in the American
university and the national culture."--Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
"Lester, who had private access to all of Stagg's papers and
letters, has scrutinized the phenomenon of college football as
closely as anyone has. His book is an amazing compendium of the
forces that bred big-time college football."--Rick
Telander, Chicago Sun-Times
"An impressive analytical account. . . . Lester's unsparing look at
big-time college athletics is thought-provoking and
challenging."--Vernon L. Volpe, Illinois Historical
Journal
"Lester's attractive study of [Stagg] has provided an important
contribution both to the history of American football and the
general history of sport."--International Journal of the History of
Sport
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