Pigskin Pulpit : A Social History of Texas High School Football Coaches

Preface vii Foreword ix O. A. ``Bum'' Phillips Introduction 1(12) Part I: Overview The Coaches and the Game 13(36) Part II: The Development of Coaching and Texas High School Football, 1890-1945 Pioneers on a Hundred-Yard Long Frontier: Football in Texas, 1890-1930 49(26) Growing Up on Black-Eyed Peas and Football: Coaches' Childhoods, 1920s-1940s 75(16) A Rough Sport for Tough Times: Football in the Great Depression 91(24) Down at the Stadium and Other Theaters of War: Football in the 1940s 115(26) Part III: The Golden Age of Texas High School Football, 1945-1970 The Last Days of the Iron Man: Texas High School Football at Its Peak 141(34) A Glorious and Bittersweet Career: Coaching in the Golden Age 175(32) Autumn Widows and Other Dependents: The Coaches and Their Families 207(18) Part IV: An Era of Change and Crisis: The 1960s and Beyond Falling Out of Step: Coaches and Changing Values 225(30) Circling the Wagons: Coaches' Reflections on Their Lives and the Game 255(26) Appendix 281(6) Notes 287(8) Index 295