{"product_id":"dyed-in-crimson-9780252087097","title":"Dyed in Crimson","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1926, Harvard athletic director Bill Bingham chose former Crimson All-American Arnold Horween as coach of the university’s moribund football team. The pair instilled a fresh culture, one based on merit rather than social status, and in the virtues of honor and courage over mere winning. Yet their success challenged entrenched ideas about who belonged at Harvard and, by extension, who deserved to lay claim to the American dream. \u003cp\u003eZev Eleff tells the story of two immigrants’ sons shaped by a vision of an America that rewarded any person of virtue. As a player, the Chicago-born Horween had led Harvard to its 1920 Rose Bowl victory. As a coach, he faced intractable opposition from powerful East Coast alumni because of his values and Midwestern, Jewish background. Eleff traces Bingham and Horween’s careers as student-athletes and their campaign to wrest control of the football program from alumni. He also looks at how Horween undermined stereotypes of Jewish masculini\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Eleff's well-researched examination of the changes that Horween and Bingham brought to Harvard in the 1920s is an uplifting story that is needed as Americans grapple with the latest wave of anti-Semitism.\" --\u003ci\u003eSport in American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It sounds like fiction, but it’s true: A century ago, a Jewish running back and a track star with a working-class background altered the very nature of sports at Harvard. Kudos to Zev Eleff for putting Arnold Horween and Bill Bingham at the center of a poignant story about acceptance.”--John Eisenberg, author of \u003ci\u003eThe League: How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports Empire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter I: The (Cinder) Path to a Better Life\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter II: Winning isn’t Everything, but it is Something\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter III: Americanization, the Jewish Take on Success\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter IV: Winning for Winning’s Sake\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter V: Football, the Ultimate Wargame of Life\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter VI: Horween versus McMahon and Rise of the National Football League\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter VII: A Member of the Hebrew Race to Become Head Coach of Harvard?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter VIII: An Honorable Failure and Satisfactory Game in Every Way\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter IX: The Crusade to Keep Football a Game\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400523718999,"sku":"9780252087097","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252087097.jpg?v=1730470892","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dyed-in-crimson-9780252087097","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}