3. A Game for Our Youth: Amateur Football at Soldier Field

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vi
3. List of figures viii
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction: Chicago Challenges the World 1
6. Part 1. Getting It Built
7. 1. Born Republican, Adopted by Democrats 17
8. 2. Soldier Field and the Democratic Ascendancy 39
9. Part 2. A Stadium for All Chicago
10. 3. A Game for Our Youth: Amateur Football at Soldier Field 77
11. 4. Chicago’s Olympic Legacy 95
12. 5. A Stage for Acceptable Dissent 109
13. 6. The City’s Altar 119
14. 7. Military Marches, Music, and an Arsonist Cow 134
15. 8. Americans All: Culture in an Epic Space 151
16. 9. A Family Place 166
17. 10. New Religious and Political Movements in a Classic Space 189
18. Part 3. The Fall and Rise of Soldier Field
19. 11 Celebrations in an Era of Decline 217
20. 12. Amateur Sports Founder at a Fading Stadium 232
21. 13. Professional Sports in a Changing Era 251
22. 14. The Bears, the Stadium’s Savior 262
23. 15. A New Century, a New Stadium 296
24. Acknowledgments 315
25. Notes 317
26. Index 355