Introduction
Chapter I: The (Cinder) Path to a Better Life
Chapter II: Winning isn’t Everything, but it is Something
Chapter III: Americanization, the Jewish Take on Success
Chapter IV: Winning for Winning’s Sake
Chapter V: Football, the Ultimate Wargame of Life
Chapter VI: Horween versus McMahon and Rise of the National Football League
Chapter VII: A Member of the Hebrew Race to Become Head Coach of Harvard?
Chapter VIII: An Honorable Failure and Satisfactory Game in Every Way
Chapter IX: The Crusade to Keep Football a Game
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Zev Eleff is president of Gratz College and a professor of American Jewish history. His books include Authentically Orthodox: A Tradition-Bound Faith in American Life.
"Eleff's well-researched examination of the changes that Horween
and Bingham brought to Harvard in the 1920s is an uplifting story
that is needed as Americans grapple with the latest wave of
anti-Semitism." --Sport in American History
“It sounds like fiction, but it’s true: A century ago, a Jewish
running back and a track star with a working-class background
altered the very nature of sports at Harvard. Kudos to Zev Eleff
for putting Arnold Horween and Bill Bingham at the center of a
poignant story about acceptance.”--John Eisenberg, author of The
League: How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports
Empire
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