Big-Time Football at Harvard, 1905: The Diary of Coach Bill Reid (Sport and Society) by Bill Reid

University of Illinois Press, 1994. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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Urbana: Univ. of Illinois, 1994. 1st . Hardcover. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included. ISBN: 0-252-02047-2. "Sport and Society" series. Indexed. Edited byRonald A. Smith b/w photos. near fine, vg+ dj w/ some waterstains, red cloth, tight 354 pgs

Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1994. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 354 pp., Edited by Ronald A. Smith. .

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Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1994. First Printing. Hardcover. 0252020472 .

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Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. As New/as new. First printing. As new in dust jacket. Hardcover. xxxviii+ 354 pp. with chronology, index. In 1905, 26 year old Bill Reid, a former Harvard athlete, was wooed back to the campus by an offer of a salary higher than that of any faculty member. He had one mission---beat Yale on the football field. Reid, with the intent of providing a how-to manual for future coaches, kept a day-by-day account of his activities on and off the field. Interestingly, Reid's diary includes details on some of the unethical conduct so common in modern-day football: spying on other teams, pressueing faculty members to give players passing grades, hiding injuries, etc. Coincidentally, 1905 was also a watershed year for college football as President Theodore Roosevelt called a White House conference with the coaches of Yale, Harvard and Princeton to address the brutality and unethical conduct in the game, a session that would lead to the… Read More