When Oberlin Was King of the Gridiron
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- ISBN 9780873386845
- Weight: 333g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 07 Feb 2001
- Publisher: Kent State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A young law graduate of the University of Pennsylvania assumed the unpaid position as coach of Oberlin College's football squad in October 1892. This "bespectacled, stoop-shouldered" young-man, as he was described by one player who saw him on his first day of coaching, was John Heisman. Brandt traces the origins of football at this renowned academic institution and the success of its students on and off the playing field, regaling readers with the stories of the fans, the players, the heroes, the rivals.
Veteran journalist Nat Brandt is the author of ten previous books, including The Man Who Tried to Burn New York and The Town That Started the Civil War. The former editor-in-chief of Publishers Weekly, Brandt was also an editor for The New York Times
