Sunday Game
At the Dawn of Professional Football
1st Edition
Published on 1. August 1998
503 pages
978-1-935603-41-2 (ISBN)
Description
In the most complete and compelling account of the origins of professional football, The Sunday Game tells the stories of all the teams that played independent football in the small towns and industrial cities of the Midwest, from early in the twentieth century to the beginning of the National Football League shortly after the end of World War I. The foundations of what is now the most popular professional sport in America were laid by such teams as the Canton Bulldogs and the Hammond Clabbys, teams born out of civic pride and the enthusiasm of the blue-collar crowds who found, in the rough pleasure of the football field, the gritty equivalent of their own lives, a game they could cheer on Sunday afternoons, their only day free from work.
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Keith McClellan lives in Oak Park, Michigan, where he edits Employee Assistance Quarterly. He has a B.A. from the University of Northern Iowa and did graduate work at the University of Chicago. He is a member of the Professional Football Researchers Association and the North American Society for Sport History. He has published sixty articles in a variety of journals.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- 1. The Dawn of Professional Football
- 2. Setting the Stage
- 3. Assumed Names and Anti-Pro Sentiments
- 4. The Art of Scheduling
- 5. The Fort Wayne Friars, 1915
- 6. The Panhandles: Big As Mountains, Strong As Lions
- 7. Native American Players with Altoona
- 8. Evanston North Ends and the Kicking Swede
- 9. The Toledo Maroons and the Adrian College Boys
- 10. The Youngstown Patricians
- 11. Dayton: St. Mary's College and General Motors
- 12. The Detroit Heralds: Like a Ford in Heavy Traffic
- 13. The Cincinnati Celts: River City Champions
- 14. The Greatest Rivalry of Its Time
- 15. A Streetcar Conductor Wins the Day
- 16. Cleveland, Canton, and Massillon: Center of the Hurricane, 1916
- 17. The Akron Pros
- 18. Massillon and Canton: The Rivalry Continues, 1917
- 19. Davenport: When the Players Were in Charge
- 20. The Rock Island Independents
- 21. The Minneapolis Marines: Champions of Minnesota
- 22. Pro Football in Wisconsin
- 23. Wabash: The Little Town that Could
- 24. Racism Rears Its Ugly Head
- 25. Fort Wayne Friars: Indiana Champions, 1916
- 26. Fort Wayne Fizzles, 1917
- 27. Boosterism and the Hammond Clabbys, 1916
- 28. Hammond: New Indiana Champions
- 29. Football Prepared Young Men for the Future
- 30. Sunday Heroes
- 31. Promotion and Financing of Iron-Man Football: 1915-17
- Reference Material
- Appendix A. Rosters and Schedules
- Appendix B. Professional Players Who Doubled as Coaches
- Appendix C. All-Professional Teams, 1917
- Appendix D. Walter Camp All-Americans in Pro Football, 1915-17
- Notes
- Index
