Glenn Killinger, All-American
Subtitle: Penn State's World War I Era Sports Hero
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781476670515
Subjects: Athletes, biography; Football players; Athletes, united states
Description: "In this first biography of W. Glenn Killinger, the author explores the ways in which home-front culture during World War I--focused on heroism, masculinity and sporting culture--created the demand for sports and sports icons and drove the ascent college athletics in the first quarter of the 20th century"--