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The Origins of Southern College Football - How an Ivy League Game Became Dixie Tradition (Hardcover)
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The Origins of Southern College Football - How an Ivy League Game Became Dixie Tradition (Hardcover)
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College football is a massive enterprise in the United States, and
southern teams dominate poll rankings and sports headlines while
generating billions in revenue for public schools and private
companies. Southern football fans worship their teams, often
rearranging their personal lives in order to accommodate season
schedules. The Origins of Southern College Football sheds new light
on the South's obsession with football and explores the sport's
beginnings below the Mason-Dixon Line in the decades after the
Civil War. Military defeat followed by a long period of cultural
unrest compelled many southerners to look to northern ideas and
customs for guidance in rebuilding their beleaguered society. Ivy
League universities, considered bastions of enlightenment and
symbols of the modernizing spirit of the age, provided a particular
source of inspiration for southerners in the form of organized or
"scientific" football that featured standardized rules and scoring.
Transported to the South by men educated at northern universities,
scientific football reinforced cultural values that had existed in
the region for centuries, among them a tolerance for violence,
respect for martial displays, and support for traditional gender
roles. The game also held the promise of a "New South" that its
supporters hoped would transform the region into an industrial
powerhouse. Students and townspeople alike embraced the new sport,
which served as a source of pride for a region that lagged woefully
behind its northern counterpart in terms of social equity and
economic prowess. The Origins of Southern College Football is an
entertaining history of the South's most popular sport cast against
a broader narrative of the United States during the Gilded Age and
Progressive Era, two momentous periods of change that gave rise to
the game we recognize today.
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