503 pp., illustrations, team rosters
and schedules, index
Paper 978-1-884836-36-7; $24.95
Ohio History and Culture

"McClellan's team-by-team study of pre-NFL professional football-his tank-town chronicles, as it were-is the most detailed account to date of pro football's lively and fascinating early years. Focusing on the crucial period of 1915-1917, when independent semiprofessional football developed into a fully professional game, this book tells the story of the teams and players, seasons and games of an era when pro football was not a billion-dollar entertainment industry but an intimate part of community life in factory towns throughout the upper Midwest. This is the mother lode of trivia for diehard football fans, and a rich resource for serious students of the game."
-Michael Oriard, author of Reading Football

Keith McClellan lives in Oak Park, Michigan, where he edits Employee Assistance Quarterly. He has a B.A. from the University of Northern Iowa and did graduate work at the University of Chicago. He is a member of the Professional Football Researchers Association and the North American Society for Sport History. He has published sixty articles in a variety of journals.