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Game Faces: Five Early American Champions and the Sports They Changed

Game Faces: Five Early American Champions and the Sports They Changed

Pauly, Thomas H.

Paperback

Fiction19th Century United States History20th Century United States History

ISBN10: 0803238177
ISBN13: 9780803238176
Publisher: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
Published: Apr 1 2012
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
This compelling blend of biography and cultural history depicts five important yet nearly forgotten athletes from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who had a transformative effect on their sports and on the evolution of sports in general. Tom Stevens was the first man to ride a bicycle, a high wheeler, around the world (1884-87). Fanny Bullock Workman completed seven expeditions into the Himalayas between 1898 and 1912. Bill Reid, a Harvard football coach and one of the game's first professionals, played a key role in saving the sport from a national movement to abolish it in 1905. May Sutton became the National Champion of women's tennis at the age of sixteen and was the first American woman to triumph at Wimbledon (1905). Barney Oldfield was an early champion of motor car racing (1902) whose aggressive pursuit of crowd appeal and outlaw style rankled his competitors but won him many races.

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