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John M. Carroll. Red Grange and the Rise of Modern Football. (Sport and Society.) Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 1999. Pp. ix, 265. $25.95.

Biographers often imitate their subjects. Football hero Harold "Red" Grange was honest, hard-working, and unassuming; John M. Carroll writes a well-researched, factual, and accurate account of Grange's life and sports career, as old-fashioned in its biographical approach as his subject was in his authentic "Aw Shucks" modesty. 1

Sports fans know Red Grange as one of the greatest athletes of the so-called "Golden Age of American Sports": the 1920s. He was the football equivalent of baseball's Babe Ruth, boxing's Jack Dempsey, tennis's Bill Tilden, and golf's Bobby Jones. Grange was a superb running back for the University of Illinois team and had the good luck to play at a time when the sporting press shamelessly promoted athletes as much larger than life and the public loved the "gee-whiz" journalism and its creations, particularly Grange, nicknamed the "Galloping Ghost of the Illini" by Grantland Rice before the writer ever saw him play, and the "Wheaton Iceman" by the Chicago press. The former nickname captured Grange's elusive open field running and the latter his smalltown, Midwest roots: every summer during his college career, he returned to his hometown of Wheaton, Illinois, then a small rural community (not yet a Chicago suburb), and delivered ice for a local company. Grange believed that this hard physical labor strengthened him for the football season, and the press and the public regarded his summer job as genuine Main Street Americana. . . .

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