Corruption, scandals, and reports of wrongdoing in college football
are constantly in the news. From Penn State's Joe Paterno to Ohio
State's Jim Tressel, we have come to learn that some of the most
lauded coaches don't always live up to their saintly reputations.
Perhaps no era of college football was ever more emblematic of this
than the early 1900s, a time when coaches worked the system with
merciless flair to recruit the best players and then keep them
eligible to play, even while other coaches were trying to steal
already-enrolled players from rival universities. Amos Alonzo Stagg
of the University of Chicago and Fielding H. Yost of the University
of Michigan were no exception, and their bitter rivalry is one for
the ages. In Stagg vs. Yost: The Birth of Cutthroat Football, John
Kryk brings to life a story that is both timeless and familiar to
all football fans, indeed to all sports fans: one man's obsession
to end the pain of a long losing streak to a hated rival. This is
the story of how Amos Alonzo Stagg covertly punted many of the
principles he espoused in order to dismantle one of the most
powerful machines the game has known-Fielding Yost's Michigan
Wolverines. Kryk reveals the extent to which Stagg schemed to
achieve victory against the "Point a Minute" Wolverines and the
lengths Yost went to prevent that from happening. In addition, this
book provides insight into college athletics' corruption as a whole
during this time, from under-the-table payments to recruits to
contracted loans from wealthy boosters-and why the current NCAA
rulebook contains page after page of recruiting and eligibility
regulations. Featuring never-before-published internal
correspondences of UM athletic leaders, Stagg's surviving letters
and notes, and reports from newspapers of the day, Stagg vs. Yost
brings fresh insight into two legends of college football who would
do almost anything to win. This book is a noteworthy and
fascinating narrative for football fans, historians, and anyone
interested in seeing where cutthroat college recruiting and
coaching all began.
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