Frantic Francis : how one coach's madness changed football
著者
書誌事項
Frantic Francis : how one coach's madness changed football
（A bison book）
University of Nebraska Press, 2009
- : pbk
大学図書館所蔵 全1件
注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 483-486) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
When Francis Schmidt, a bow tie-wearing law school graduate with a bombastic personality, got started as a volunteer high school coach, football still followed Victorian tenets of caution and simplicity and often employed fewer than fifty plays. By the time "Frantic Francis" had risen through the ranks of small colleges on the plains to one of the top coaching jobs in America-head coach at Ohio State University in the 1930s-football was a wild, wide-open game, largely because of Schmidt's own daring style. With a mind that never stopped thinking about football, he created a playbook ten times larger than those previously used during his era and filled it with daring, complex plays that broke all the decades-old golden rules of offense. This book tells the little-known story of the man who forever changed the way football is played-and whose coaching lineage can be traced to such current names as Bill Walsh, Al Davis, and Mike Holmgren. Frantic Francis offers an unforgettable portrait of an eccentric character whose paranoid, manic, brusque, and profane ways shocked and confused even his players, but whose speedy, deceptive, and imaginative plays remade the sport of football. Although Schmidt's mania eventually sabotaged his career, his legacy was secure and the style he introduced continues to make football one of the most popular spectator sports in America.
目次
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction: A Man Ahead of His Time
1. Something Stirring on the Prairie
2. Frantic Francis
3. The Man from Nowhere
4. The Open-Game Movement
5. Razzle-Dazzle
6. The Game
7. The Immovable Object
8. Slingin' for Dollars
9. On the Edge
10. Spreading the Message
11. The Magic Remains
12. The Cost of Odd
13. The Final Act 000
14. The Schmidt Effect
Epilogue: Schmidt from the Players' View
Appendix: Schmidt's Coaching Record
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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