Post by Coach Campbell on Jan 12, 2006 19:00:04 GMT
Young Heisman and the Origins of His Game (1869-1891)
The years after the Civil War when the continent was only partly explored were the halcyon days of the Go-Getters. They went in search of what others had never imagined was there to get. The Go-Getters made something out of nothing, they brought meat out of the desert, found oil in the rocks, and brought light to millions. They discovered new resources, and where there seemed none to be discovered, they invented new ways of profiting from others who were trying to invent and to discover.
--Daniel J. Boorstin, The Americans: The Democratic Experience ( 1974)
The danger to college football, as in anything else, lies in the failure to know the origins of the game and the people responsible for its growth and maturity.
-- Jack Whitaker, Foreword to John T. Brady, The Heisman: A Symbol of Excellence ( 1984)
THE "GREENING" OF A FOOTBALL COACH (1869-1886)
The world John William Heisman was born into was the fiercely competitive world of the cattle, railroad, and oil barons, a world that saw the rise of big business and the advent of the corporation. In short, it was an era dominated and controlled economically by rugged individuals known popularly as gogetters. A peculiarly American breed, these were men who found ways to get rich by capitalizing on every opportunity that came their way, often from the unexpected windfalls of a rapidly developing country still searching for its identity.
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The years after the Civil War when the continent was only partly explored were the halcyon days of the Go-Getters. They went in search of what others had never imagined was there to get. The Go-Getters made something out of nothing, they brought meat out of the desert, found oil in the rocks, and brought light to millions. They discovered new resources, and where there seemed none to be discovered, they invented new ways of profiting from others who were trying to invent and to discover.
--Daniel J. Boorstin, The Americans: The Democratic Experience ( 1974)
The danger to college football, as in anything else, lies in the failure to know the origins of the game and the people responsible for its growth and maturity.
-- Jack Whitaker, Foreword to John T. Brady, The Heisman: A Symbol of Excellence ( 1984)
THE "GREENING" OF A FOOTBALL COACH (1869-1886)
The world John William Heisman was born into was the fiercely competitive world of the cattle, railroad, and oil barons, a world that saw the rise of big business and the advent of the corporation. In short, it was an era dominated and controlled economically by rugged individuals known popularly as gogetters. A peculiarly American breed, these were men who found ways to get rich by capitalizing on every opportunity that came their way, often from the unexpected windfalls of a rapidly developing country still searching for its identity.
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