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Author Robert J. Roman draws on extensive archival research to tell the untold story of the early days of football at Ohio's flagship public university. The game was different. Fields were rarely level and often rocky. Eleven men played both sides of the ball, quarterbacks were often the smallest men on the team, and coaches were not allowed to communicate with the players during a game. The travel was different. The faculty of rival Ohio Wesleyan forbid their team from traveling to Columbus, where the vulgar, "godless" public university students might corrupt their young men. After Ohio State's first game outside the state-a victory in Kentucky-the team had to run for its life, chased by an angry mob of stone-throwing locals. But the students were the same. Eager to establish their school as the equal of older, wealthier, and more strictly religious colleges, Ohio State students saw intercollegiate athletics as their path to respectability. "Do you not believe that our athletic clubs have generally represented the University with great credit to themselves and the University?," asked a student in the campus paper. "Do you not believe they have spread abroad our good name and won friends for us all through the State? I tell you, in this day athletics are becoming just as much a part of a great University as Greek or mathematics."
Ohio State Football: The Forgotten Dawn will not only fascinate readers interested in the school’s team history, but also those interested in the early history of athletics at American public universities. Familiar debates over the construction of facilities, hiring of coaches, academic eligibility, and the authority of the faculty and the administration are all part of the story here. But above all, college football fans will see themselves, with pride, in this history of one of the sport’s most famed programs. Includes forty rare photos from the Ohio State archives.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781629220666 |
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Publisher: | University of Akron Press, The |
Publication date: | 10/31/2016 |
Pages: | 230 |
Sales rank: | 1,102,999 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d) |
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Table of Contents
Introduction ix
Part 1 Let us have a varsity team that would do honor to its name
1 Foot hall has suddenly made its appearance 3
2 Integrity, ability, energy, earnestness, and true worth 17
3 A little more regard for the rules 32
4 What shall be done with the challenger? 39
5 Foot ball is to reign supreme in this period 50
Part 2 The long looked-for boom in athletics has come at last
6 Class colors fade into insignificance 61
7 The reputation of the University is at stake 71
8 The 0. 5. U. can "Yell like Hell" 80
9 We know too much of the Delaware boys ourselves 91
10 Our boys knew a little more about the game 100
Part 3 There is no reason why we should not have the best eleven in the state
11 The indomitable Jack and the inevitable Mike 113
12 It is an honor to be a player in the Ohio State University foot ball team 121
13 Does anyone still persist in saying that we can play foot ball? 131
14 Everything that will add to the glory of the O. S. U. 140
Part 4 Our place is at the head of Ohio's athletics, not at the foot
15 Well, why can't we play football? 153
16 Victory at last 165
17 Part of the proud and cherished history of O. S. U. 177
18 The sake of truth and conscience 186
19 What does it mean? 194
20 Are we not quite as godly as they? 204
Part 5 We want to get a great football team and we shall then he a great University
21 Our athletic clubs have spread abroad our good name 213
22 We are to enter upon a period of real Thanksgiving 226
23 Football can do more than all the catalogues you can publish 234
24 Not only marvelous but without an equal 241
25 The same crowd of leather-lunged Buckeyes 250
Part 6 But campus work is unchanged-It goes on forever
26 The father of football at Ohio State 265
Acknowledgments 277
Notes 279