Dyed in Crimson: Football, Faith, and Remaking Harvard's America

Dyed in Crimson

Football, Faith, and Remaking Harvard's America
 
Edition number: 1st Edition
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Date of Publication:
Number of Volumes: Paperback
 
Normal price:

Publisher's listprice:
GBP 23.99
Estimated price in HUF:
11 587 HUF (11 035 HUF + 5% VAT)
Why estimated?
 
Your price:

10 428 (9 932 HUF + 5% VAT )
discount is: 10% (approx 1 159 HUF off)
The discount is only available for 'Alert of Favourite Topics' newsletter recipients.
Click here to subscribe.
 
Availability:

Estimated delivery time: Currently 3-5 weeks.
Not in stock at Prospero.
Can't you provide more accurate information?
 
  Piece(s)

 
 
 
 
Product details:

ISBN13:9780252087097
ISBN10:0252087097
Binding:Paperback
No. of pages:304 pages
Size:229x152x25 mm
Weight:420 g
Language:English
Illustrations: 22 black & white photographs
625
Category:
Long description:
In 1926, Harvard athletic director Bill Bingham chose former Crimson All-American Arnold Horween as coach of the university’s moribund football team. The pair instilled a fresh culture, one based on merit rather than social status, and in the virtues of honor and courage over mere winning. Yet their success challenged entrenched ideas about who belonged at Harvard and, by extension, who deserved to lay claim to the American dream.

Zev Eleff tells the story of two immigrants’ sons shaped by a vision of an America that rewarded any person of virtue. As a player, the Chicago-born Horween had led Harvard to its 1920 Rose Bowl victory. As a coach, he faced intractable opposition from powerful East Coast alumni because of his values and Midwestern, Jewish background. Eleff traces Bingham and Horween’s careers as student-athletes and their campaign to wrest control of the football program from alumni. He also looks at how Horween undermined stereotypes of Jewish masculinity and dealt with the resurgent antisemitism of the 1920s.



"Eleff's well-researched examination of the changes that Horween and Bingham brought to Harvard in the 1920s is an uplifting story that is needed as Americans grapple with the latest wave of anti-Semitism." --Sport in American History
Table of Contents:
Introduction

Chapter I: The (Cinder) Path to a Better Life

Chapter II: Winning isn’t Everything, but it is Something

Chapter III: Americanization, the Jewish Take on Success

Chapter IV: Winning for Winning’s Sake

Chapter V: Football, the Ultimate Wargame of Life

Chapter VI: Horween versus McMahon and Rise of the National Football League

Chapter VII: A Member of the Hebrew Race to Become Head Coach of Harvard?

Chapter VIII: An Honorable Failure and Satisfactory Game in Every Way

Chapter IX: The Crusade to Keep Football a Game

Conclusion

Acknowledgments