Igniting the flame: America's first olympic team 9780762786596, 0762786590

"The story of the fourteen men - largely forgotten and never the subject of a full-length book - who created the Am

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English Pages (x, 285 pages) : illustrations Year 2012

Table of contents :
"Nothing more than a glorified pickup squad" --
"Games at Athens? What games?" --
A rousing start --
The Baron --
"All were stupefied" --
"Lithe forms and springy steps" --
"Most gratifying to every Princeton man" --
"Man of many parts" --
Smoking guns --
"A foreigner should not win this race!" --
"Jesu Christo! I'm freezing!" --
"Rah! rah! rah! Ellas, Ellas, Ellas, Zito!" --
"A set of men that the nation may well feel proud of" --
"Good feelings and fellowship predominated" --
Appendix. 1896 Olympic results.

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