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NFL Football : A History of America's New National Pastime /

"The National Football League was founded in 1920 as the American Football Association. At first is struggled in the shadow of baseball as a vaguely disreputable professional sport, and had trouble competing for athletes and fans. Through a series of mergers, moves between cities, and the adven...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crepeau, Richard C., 1941-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The formative years: the first pros
  • Depression and war
  • The NFL comes of age
  • The Rozelle era: moving to center stage
  • A troubled decade
  • The perfect television game
  • The cartel
  • Unraveling
  • Labor conflict
  • The new NFL: a new era
  • Defending the shield
  • Super Sunday.