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Glenn Killinger, All-American

Penn State's World War I Era Sports Hero

Todd M Mealy author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:McFarland & Co Inc

Published:30th Apr '18

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This first biography of W. Glenn Killinger highlights his tenure as a nine-time varsity letterman at Penn State, where he emerged as one of the best football, basketball and baseball players in the United States. Situating Killinger in his time and place, 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 of college athletics in the first quarter of the 20th century.

“This, the first published biography, of Killinger, was well-written and thoroughly researched. ...this is a good book”—Pennsylvania History

ISBN: 9781476670515

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm

Weight: 340g

276 pages