Notes+on+Kemper

Introduction
 * Notes on Kemper**
 * Thesis
 * Americans utilized football as a cultural mechanism to rationalize changes they sometimes found alienating, to magnify American distinctiveness in the face of Soviet gains, and to villify that which they found to be outside the bounds of respectability. pg 2
 * football as an embodiment of national values
 * american exceptionalism
 * the 1962 rose bowl selection process reveals what is american pg 3
 * thesis, a better one
 * This book claims that americans crafted and embraced a culture during the cold war era aimed at convincing themselves of their own distinctiveness based on values and characteristics associated with football. pg 6

Prologue
 * nov 29, 1941 west point vs navy
 * one of the last college fball games before WWII
 * tragic significance pg 7
 * competitive sports are good for military 8
 * play continues after Pearl Harbor
 * football crucial to military victory 9
 * service football
 * demonstration of american life 11
 * v-5 preflight schools
 * navy training programs
 * combative types 11
 * rejection of fball as military preparation 12
 * Tunney, Arnold, Eaker
 * the v-5 teams contributed to the continuation of civilian college fball on a small scale
 * victory over axis justifies fball
 * two big decisions that caused fball boom13
 * suspension of transfer rules
 * the gi bill
 * causes league inparity
 * federal funding boosts public schools
 * 1950-1962 only one private school wins natl champ 16

Chapter 1 Pasadena: The Terms of Postwar Football
 * potential thesis on 17
 * policy of containment ran contrary to american military tradition 18
 * us falling behind, the muscle gap 19
 * cult of toughness 20
 * no water at practice 21
 * american exceptionalism 21
 * military supremacy, capitalism, christianity, and democracy
 * dwight d. eisenhower
 * former player at west point
 * "natural leaders" 22
 * john f kennedy
 * football as common culture 24
 * space race 1962
 * football as a defense against communists 26
 * National Football Foundation
 * linking fball to national defense 27
 * critics of fball linked to communism 29
 * T. Garland Tinsley
 * ivy league distancing itself is an attack 31
 * scandals at westpoint and wm 33
 * whistleblowers chastized 34
 * citizens accepted abuses
 * two platoon fball and the emasculation of the economy 41
 * fball as a cult mechanism 43

Chapter 2 Columbus: Struggling for the soul of the cold war university
 * Faculty at ohio state rejects fball team's invitation to rose bowl