02627nam 2200637Ia 450 991082483640332120200520144314.01-280-68771-197866136646550-8032-4051-1(CKB)2670000000208138(EBL)931665(OCoLC)795120088(SSID)ssj0000600629(PQKBManifestationID)11939946(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000600629(PQKBWorkID)10600341(PQKB)10738441(MiAaPQ)EBC931665(OCoLC)795159480(MdBmJHUP)muse16073(Au-PeEL)EBL931665(CaPaEBR)ebr10568889(CaONFJC)MIL366465(EXLCZ)99267000000020813820110826d2012 ub 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrGame faces five early American champions and the sports they changed /Thomas H. Pauly1st ed.Lincoln University of Nebraska Pressc20121 online resource (264 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8032-3817-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; 1 . Tom Stevens; 2. Fanny Bullock Workman; 3. Bill Reid; 4. May Sutton; 5. Barney Oldfield; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; IndexThis 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 abolishAthletesUnited StatesBiographySportsUnited StatesHistory19th centurySportsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAthletesSportsHistorySportsHistory796.0922BPauly Thomas H1685232MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824836403321Game faces4057211UNINA