Robin Lester
Biographic Data
| ID | 5787596 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robin Lester |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robin |
| FAMILY NAME | Lester |
| SIGNATURE | LESTER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia College Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Stagg's University
For this first case study of college football by a social historian, Lester has brought life to the story of a university football program that had an unusual beginning, a glorious middle, and a unique and inglorious conclusion. The nation's first tenured coach and the most creative and entrepreneurial of all college coaches from the 1890s to the 1920s, Amos Alonzo Stagg headed a program marked by creation of the lettermans club and by the domina…
Reading Football
Journal Article Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle. By Michael Oriard. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993 and Shake Down the Thunder: The Creation of Notre Dame Football. By Murray Sperber. New York: Holt, 1993 Get access Robin Lester Robin Lester Francis W. Parker School and Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of…
Big-Time Football at Harvard, 1905
Stagg's University
For this first case study of college football by a social historian, Lester has brought life to the story of a university football program that had an unusual beginning, a glorious middle, and a unique and inglorious conclusion. The nation's first tenured coach and the most creative and entrepreneurial of all college coaches from the 1890s to the 1920s, Amos Alonzo Stagg headed a program marked by creation of the lettermans club and by the domina…
Reading Football
Journal Article Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle. By Michael Oriard. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993 and Shake Down the Thunder: The Creation of Notre Dame Football. By Murray Sperber. New York: Holt, 1993 Get access Robin Lester Robin Lester Francis W. Parker School and Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of…
Reading Football
Journal Article Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle. By Michael Oriard. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993 and Shake Down the Thunder: The Creation of Notre Dame Football. By Murray Sperber. New York: Holt, 1993 Get access Robin Lester Robin Lester Francis W. Parker School and Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of…
Big-Time Football at Harvard, 1905
Stagg's University
For this first case study of college football by a social historian, Lester has brought life to the story of a university football program that had an unusual beginning, a glorious middle, and a unique and inglorious conclusion. The nation's first tenured coach and the most creative and entrepreneurial of all college coaches from the 1890s to the 1920s, Amos Alonzo Stagg headed a program marked by creation of the lettermans club and by the domina…
College football (3 works) · Football (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (3 works) · American football (2 works) · American Sports and Literature (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works)