Dream Season A Professor Joins America's Oldest Semi-Pro Football Team

by Cowser, Jr., Bob

• ISBN13: 9780871139238
• ISBN10: 0871139235
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-08-31
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press

Summary

At the age of thirty, Bob Cowser, Jr., is leading a happy life as a husband, father, and English professor in upstate New York. But he misses the exhilaration he felt as a young man when he took the field for high school football games. In what is every Monday morning quarterback's fantasy, Bob Cowser, Jr., revisits his days as a football star by joining the Watertown Red and Black, the country's oldest semi-professional football team.

Author Biography

Bob Cowser, Jr. is currently associate professor of English at Saint Lawrence University.

Table of Contents

Permission: An Introduction	1	(12)
Coming Out of the Stands	13	(16)
Building the Beast	29	(16)
Committed	45	(18)
Contact	63	(18)
First Team	81	(16)
The Pretender	97	(18)
Carpool Mutiny	115	(22)
In Another Country	137	(22)
Belonging	159	(16)
Bitter End	175	(20)
Dream Season	195	(10)
Epilogue: Boys from Up North	205	(10)
Appendix A	215	(2)
Appendix B	217	(2)
Appendix C	219	(2)
Works Consulted and Suggestions for Further Reading	221	(2)
Acknowledgments	223