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Author Lyons, Robert S., 1939-2013

Title On any given Sunday : a life of Bert Bell / Robert S. Lyons ; foreword by Don Shula
Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 328 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents Foreword by Don Shula; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. The Early Years; 2. The Quarterback of the Quakers; 3. A War Hero Tastes the French Nightlife; 4. Back to Penn as Captain of the Quakers; 5. Bert Bell's Coaching Career Begins; 6. The Roaring Twenties -- Off the Field; 7. Frances Upton: One of America's Brightest Stars; 8. The Yellow Jackets Become the Eagles; 9. The Eagles Struggle under Bell and Wray; 10. The Player Draft Comes in 1936; 11. Additional Shock Waves from 1936; 12. The Struggle to Survive: 1937 to 1939; 13. Bert Bell and Art Rooney Get Together
Summary The first biography ever written about the man who some considered the greatest commissioner in the history of professional sports
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Bell, Bert, 1894-1959.
SUBJECT Bell, Bert, 1894-1959
Bell, Bert, 1894-1959 fast
Subject Philadelphia Eagles (Football team) -- History
SUBJECT Philadelphia Eagles (Football team) fast
Subject Football coaches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography
Football commissioners -- United States -- Biography
Football coaches.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Football.
Football coaches
Football commissioners
Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781592137336
1592137334