Glenn Killinger, All-American - Penn State's World War I Era Sports Hero

This first biography of W. Glenn Killinger highlights his tenure as a nine-time varsity letterman at Penn State, where he emerged as one of the best football, basketball and baseball players in the United States. Situating Killinger in his time and place, the author explores the ways in which home-front culture during World War I--focused on heroism, masculinity and sporting culture--created the demand for sports and sports icons and drove the ascent of college athletics in the first quarter of the 20th century.

List of contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments viii

Foreword by Howard W. Bedell

Preface

Part One: First Quarter

¿1.¿Beginnings

¿2.¿Evolution of an Athlete

¿3.¿Dreams and Diversity in an American City

Part Two: Second Quarter

¿4.¿Wartime Football Adventure

¿5.¿War Season

¿6.¿Massed Athletics Experiment

Part Three: Third Quarter

¿7.¿The Veterans

¿8.¿War, Sport and Brotherhood

¿9.¿Harold Lamb Moments

Part Four: Fourth Quarter

10.¿Class of 1921

11.¿A Crafty Field General

12.¿All-American Hero

Epilogue: Post Game

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Todd M. Mealy (Ph.D., American studies, Penn State University) is a writer who specializes in 19th and 20th century civil rights history and sports culture. A contributor to Pennsylvania Heritage Magazine, he lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Product details

• Authors: Todd M. Mealy
• Publisher: McFarland
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.04.2018
• EAN: 9781476670515
• ISBN: 978-1-4766-7051-5
• No. of pages: 278
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 456 g
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries