Papa Bear The Life and Legacy of George Halas

by Davis, Jeff

• ISBN13: 9780071477413
• ISBN10: 0071477411
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-17
• Publisher: McGraw Hill

Summary

"Papa Bearis everything a sports book should be: Passionate, encyclopedic, utterly biased and filled with endearingly anachronistic phrases. . ." --New York Times Book ReviewGranted unprecedented access to George Halas's formerplayers, friends and associates, author Jeff Davis tells the incredible story of how one man grabbed an outlaw game by the throat, shook it up, and made it into the most popular spectator sport on the planet.

Author Biography

Jeff Davis is a lifelong Chicagoan and career journalist. He has covered network and local news and sports for more than three decades as a writer, television sports producer, and reporter. His work has earned numerous honors, including five Emmys. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.

Table of Contents

Foreword:	v
Gale Sayers
Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Kickoff: Halas Lives!	1	(30)
FIRST QUARTER 1895 — 1932
ONE Learning the Ropes	31	(16)
TWO Destiny Beckons	47	(8)
THREE From Tank Towns to That Toddlin' Town	55	(16)
FOUR The First Superstar	71	(16)
FIVE The Last Roar of the '20's	87	(12)
SIX Partners on the Rocks	99	(12)
SECOND QUARTER 1933 — 1945
SEVEN The Big Breakout	111	(12)
EIGHT Of Rubber Shoes and the Madman of the Midway	123	(14)
NINE A Son Like No Other	137	(12)
TEN "The Greatest Team of All Time"	149	(14)
ELEVEN The Team of Destiny	163	(12)
TWELVE Crisis on thee? Home Front	175	(8)
THIRTEEN War, War, War	183	(12)
THIRD QUARTER 1946 - 1965
FOURTEEN Money That Burns—the Postwar War	195	(16)
FIFTEEN Best Record, No Titles	211	(24)
SIXTEEN The Luckman Curse, or Was It Lujack, Layne, or Blanda?	235	(24)
SEVENTEEN Tube or Consequences	259	(18)
EIGHTEEN Bears Down	277	(6)
NINETEEN The Kids Who Came to Play	283	(18)
TWENTY Paddy Cake, Paddy Cake, Papa's Man	301	(12)
TWENTY-ONE Déjà Vu and a Dose of Halas Hubris	313	(16)
TWENTY-TWO Changing Times	329	(18)
TWENTY-THREE Building for Another Title	347	(18)
TWENTY-FOUR Primed for the Push	365	(14)
TWENTY-FIVE Hooray for George!	379	(24)
TWENTY-SIX Trouble Comes in Many Packages	403	(14)
TWENTY-SEVEN The Greatest Stars, the Greatest Loss	417	(16)
FOURTH QUARTER 1966 - 2003
TWENTY-EIGHT The Mess	433	(22)
TWENTY-NINE Mugs and Jerry	455	(16)
THIRTY Halas and the McCaskeys: The Legacy	471	(22)
Overtime: Not Sudden Death!	493	(20)
Bibliography	513	(10)
Index	523