Author: Gustavus Town KirbyPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
The Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America, the Amateur Athletic Union and Other Organizations Having to Do with Competition by Amateurs in Games and Sports
Author: Gustavus Town KirbyBulletin
Author: Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of AmericaPublisher:
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Category : College sports
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The Outlook
Author: Lyman AbbottPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
The Amateur Athlete
Author: All American
Author: Bill CrawfordPublisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 0470322713
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
"All American is riveting and grand-that rare pairing of exquisite writing and unassailable research. Crawford delivers you to an age when iconic titans like Jim Thorpe and Pop Warner marched across the planet, and he is the perfect guide to their enormous triumphs and tragedies. This is epic American history at its page-turning finest." -Bill Minutaglio, author of City on Fire and First Son: George W. Bush and the Bush Family Dynasty He was the greatest football running back of his era, leading his Carlisle Indian Industrial School team to victory over all the great college powerhouses. King Gustav of Sweden called him "the greatest athlete in the world" after he won gold medals for the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Olympic Games. Yet Jim Thorpe was also at the center of the greatest sports scandal of the twentieth century-a scandal that took away his Olympic medals and banned him forever from intercollegiate sports. Now, in this revealing new biography, Bill Crawford captures Jim Thorpe's remarkable rise and fall. From his youth on Oklahoma's Sac and Fox Indian reservation to his astounding feats on the gridiron, from his Olympic triumphs to his complex relationship with coach "Pop" Warner, who mentored, exploited, and ultimately betrayed him, All American brings you up close and personal with the greatest athlete of the twentieth century.
The Americana
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
Recreation
Author: The Americana
Author: Frederick Converse BeachPublisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
Book Description
Playground and Recreation
Author: The Final Report of the President's Commission on Olympic Sports, January 1977, Washington, D.C.
Author: United States. President's Commission on Olympic SportsPublisher:
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Category : Athletics
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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