Shaping College Football The Transformation of an American Sport, 1919-1930

"Although the intercollegiate gridiron game was already a half-century old by the close of World War I, probably no other sport ever experienced such sweeping transformations as did college football during the 1920s. These transformations were significant changes that combined to migrate the game of college football from its semicloistered world of prewar days to one that by the end of the decade bore many of the characteristics of any late-twentieth-century American sport, or, in some cases, at least established the foundation stones for the completion of that migration in the following decades. Among those aspects of college football undergoing radical reshaping were the style of play, the stadia and the locales in which the game unfolded, the financial significance and prestige possibilities available to the successful football schools, a recognition of football's importance and place within an increasingly urbanized and ethnically diverse American society, and even the very place of intercollegiate sport within the university community." Book jacket.Schmidt, Raymond is the author of 'Shaping College Football The Transformation of an American Sport, 1919-1930', published 2007 under ISBN 9780815608868 and ISBN 0815608861.