Game Faces - Five Early American Champions and the Sports They Changed

Informationen zum Autor Thomas H. Pauly is a recently retired professor of American literature at the University of Delaware. He is the author of Zane Grey: His Life, His Adventures, His Women and American Odyssey: Elia Kazan and American Culture. Klappentext Thomas H. Pauly is a recently retired professor of American literature at the University of Delaware. He is the author of Zane Grey: His Life, His Adventures, His Women and American Odyssey: Elia Kazan and American Culture. Zusammenfassung Depicts five important yet nearly forgotten athletes who had a transformative effect on their sports and the evolution of sports in general. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. Tom Stevens: Bicycling and the Obstacle of Amateurism2. Fanny Bullock Workman: Mountaineering as Science and News3. Bill Reid: The Play That Changed Football4. May Sutton: California's Intrusion on Women's Tennis5. Barney Oldfield: People's Champion and Threat to Early Automobile RacingEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Thomas H Pauly, Thomas H. Pauly
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2012
• EAN: 9780803238176
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-3817-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous