In the 1870s, Gus Hornsby spread the game of American football
around the world like an evangelist and helped establish American
football in the heartland of the U.S. Hornsby seemed destined for
greatness as a groundbreaking journalist, inventor, explorer and
entrepreneur. His arrogance, greed and an intractable gambling
addiction, however, drove him to criminality and cast him into
obscurity. But this public ruin led to his greatest accomplishment
in prison: personal redemption.Surprisingly, Hornsby's meteoric
rise and fall intersected with towering influencers of the time,
including the women and men who would pioneer the "first-wave"
feminist movement in the United States. This book explores their
unexpected connections and interweaves their stories--along with
details from the first American football game in the Midwest, a
match at Northwestern University--to reveal elements of a pivotal
moment in American history, both in feminism and sports. More than
a biography of a person navigating nineteenth-century America, it
is a story about America--brash, imaginative and seemingly
limitless in resources and creativity, but overly self-assured and
wildly reckless.
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