Now in paperback, the New York Times Bestseller and Boston Globe
Bestseller! It's America's most popular sport, played by thousands,
watched by millions, and generating billions in revenues every
year. It's also America's most controversial sport, haunted by the
specter of life-threatening injuries and plagued by scandal, even
among its most venerable personalities and institutions. At the
college level, we often tie football's tales of corruption and
greed to its current popularity and revenue potential, and we have
vague notions of a halcyon time-before the new College Football
Playoff, power conferences, and huge TV contracts. Perhaps we
conjure images of young Ivy Leaguers playing a gentleman's game,
exemplifying the collegial in collegiate. What we don't imagine is
a game described in 1905 as "a social obsession-this boy-killing,
man-mutilating, education-prostituting, gladiatorial sport." In The
Opening Kickoff, Dave Revsine tells the riveting story of the
formative period of American football between 1890 and 1915. In
just a quarter century football spread across the nation,
captivating people from coast to coast. It was a time that saw the
game's meteoric rise, fueled by overflow crowds, breathless
newspaper coverage, and newfound superstars-including one of the
most thrilling and mysterious the sport has ever seen. But it was
also a period racked by controversy in academics, recruiting, and
physical brutality that, in combination, threatened football's very
existence. A vivid storyteller, Revsine brings it all to life in
this captivating narrative.
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