Ivy League football is a preoccupation in Timothy Spears's family
history. His grandfather Clarence "Doc" Spears was an All-American
guard at Dartmouth in the early twentieth century, played on the
Canton Bulldogs with Jim Thorpe, became a College Hall of Fame
coach, and, as the legend goes, discovered Bronko Nagurski while
driving through the backcountry of Minnesota. His father, Robert
Spears, captained Yale's 1951 team and was drafted by the Chicago
Bears in 1952. By the time Timothy went to Yale in the mid-1970s,
it was more than talent or enthusiasm that prompted him to play
football there. Spirals tracks the relationship between college
football and higher education through the lens of one family's
involvement in the sport. Ranging over almost a century of football
history, Spears describes the different ways in which his
grandfather, father, and he played the game and engaged with its
educational dimensions as the sport was passed from father to son.
This intergenerational history attempts to uncover what the males
in Spears's family learned from playing football and how the game's
educational importance shifted over time within higher education.
While Spears chose an academic life after college, he understood
later, with the decline of his parents, how much football stayed
with him and shaped his family's history. With a voice that is part
memoirist, part scholar, part athlete, as well as father and son,
Spears discerns how football is embedded in our culture and came to
be the fabric and common language of his family.
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