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Why we love the game, what is at risk, and the fight to save it. In search of the sports old ideals amid the roaring flood of hypocrisy and greed, bestselling author John U. Bacon embedded himself in four programsPenn State, Ohio State, Michigan, and Northwesternand captured college footballs oldest, biggest, most storied league, the Big Ten, at its tipping point. He sat in as coaches dissected game film, he ate dinner at training tables, and he listened in locker rooms. He talked with tailgating fans and college presidents, and he spent months in the company of the gifted young athletes who play the game. None of Bacons discoveries is more poignant than this: the last, true defenders of the student-athlete ideal are the players themselves, who, even as money changes everything around them, are left to carry the future of the league, the game, and more than a century of tradition on their backs every fall Saturday. Fourth and Long reveals intimate scenes behind closed doors, from a teams angry face-off with their athletic director to a defensive lineman acing his masters exams in theoretical math. It captures the private moment when coach Urban Meyer earned the devotion of Ohio St

Who reads Fourth and Long : the Fight for the Soul of College Football?

Author

Bacon, John U., 1964- author

Publisher

New York: Simon & Schuster

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781476706443

Category

history

Subjects

Sports, Anthropology, History

Rating

3.92 / 5 (424 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14