Ohio State football : the forgotten dawn / Robert J. Roman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roman, Robert J., 1964- author.

Series:

Ohio history and culture.

Series on Ohio History and Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ohio State University--Football--History.

Ohio State University.

Ohio State Buckeyes (Football team)--History.

Ohio State Buckeyes (Football team).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (331 pages) : illustrations, photographs.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Akron, Ohio : The University of Akron Press, 2017.

Summary:

In Ohio State Football: The Forgotten Dawn, Bob Roman draws on extensive archival research to tell the untold story of the early days of football at Ohio's flagship public university. The game was different. Fields were rarely level and often rocky. Eleven men played both sides of the ball, quarterbacks were often the smallest men on the team, and coaches were not allowed to communicate with the players during a game. The travel was different. The faculty of rival Ohio Wesleyan forbid their team from traveling to Columbus, where the vulgar, "godless" public university students might corrupt their young men. After Ohio State's first game outside the state-a victory in Kentucky-the team had to run for its life, chased by an angry mob of stone-throwing locals. But the students were the same. Eager to establish their school as the equal of older, wealthier, and more strictly religious colleges, Ohio State students saw intercollegiate athletics as their path to respectability. "Do you not believe that our athletic clubs have generally represented the University with great credit to themselves and the University?," asked a student in the campus paper. "Do you not believe they have spread abroad our good name and won friends for us all through the State? I tell you, in this day athletics are becoming just as much a part of a great University as Greek or mathematics." Ohio State Football: The Forgotten Dawn will fascinate readers interested in the early history of athletics at American public universities. Familiar debates over the construction of facilities, coach hiring, academic eligibility, and the authority of the faculty and the administration all begin here. But above all, college football fans will see themselves, with pride, in this history of OSU's early players and advocates.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Introduction: Almost as dear as the red, white and blue

Part One: Let us have a varsity team that would do honor to its name

Chapter One: Foot ball has suddenly made its appearance

Chapter Two: Integrity, ability, energy, earnestness, and true worth

Chapter Three: A little more regard for the rules

Chapter Four: What shall be done with the challenge?

Chapter Five: Foot ball is to reign supreme in this period

Part Two: The long looked-for boom in athletics has come at last

Chapter Six: Class colors fade into insignificance

Chapter Seven: The reputation of the University is at stake

Chapter Eight: The O. S. U. can "Yell like Hell"

Chapter Nine: We know too much of the Delaware boys ourselves

Chapter Ten: Our boys knew a little more about the game

Part Three: There is no reason why we should not have the best eleven in the state

Chapter Eleven: The indomitable Jack and the inevitable Mike

Chapter Twelve: It is an honor to be a player in the Ohio State University foot ball team

Chapter Thirteen: Does anyone still persist in saying that we can play foot ball?

Chapter Fourteen: Everything that will add to the glory of the O. S. U.

Part Four: Our place is at the head of Ohio's athletics, not at the foot

Chapter Fifteen: Well, why can't we play football?

Chapter Sixteen: Victory at last

Chapter Seventeen: Part of the proud and cherished history of O. S. U.

Chapter Eighteen: The sake of truth and conscience

Chapter Nineteen: What does it mean?

Chapter Twenty: Are we not quite as godly as they?

Part Five: We want to get a great football team and we shall then be a great University

Chapter Twenty-One: Our athletic clubs have spread abroad our good name

Chapter Twenty-Two: We are to enter upon a period of real Thanksgiving.

Chapter Twenty-Three: Football can do more than all the catalogues you can publish

Chapter Twenty-Four: Not only marvelous but without an equal

Chapter Twenty-Five: The same crowd of leather-lunged Buckeyes

Part Six: But campus work is unchanged-It goes on forever

Chapter Twenty-Six: The father of football at Ohio State

Acknowledgments

Notes.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62922-068-X

1-62922-067-1