{"product_id":"spirals-a-familys-education-in-football-hardcover","title":"Spirals: A Family's Education in Football - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTimothy B. Spears\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIvy 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpirals\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimothy B. Spears \u003c\/b\u003eis the vice president for academic development and a professor of American studies at Middlebury College. He is the author of \u003ci\u003e100 Years on the Road: The Traveling Salesman in American Culture\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eChicago Dreaming: Midwesterners and the City, 1871-1929\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 6.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771860779296,"sku":"9781496203632","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/dd8960480e5a34b88ae74ab7e83bea1d.webp?v=1780395702","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/spirals-a-familys-education-in-football-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}