Pigskin Pulpit Texas Football Coaches
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In Ty Cashion’s Pigskin Pulpit we are treated to the lives and values of old-time Texas High-School football coaches who wielded enormous influence on society, and, in turn, made high-school football in Texas a social institution. The author’s purpose is twofold. The first is to present “the first scholarly treatment of Texas high school coaches as a social group” (Cashion 5). The second purpose is not stated but is palpable throughout the text. This purpose appears to be removing some of the more recent tarnish on the image of this social group, a group whose methods and tactics of the past face judgmental criticism from the presentBasically, it is difficult to summarize all the author says in 300+ pages in the space allotted herein, however, his general gist is that the methods and tactics used by and the community formed by Texas high-school football coaches basically represented a pillar of Texas community society. For good and bad examples abound, the author contends these men overall were a “good” breed who added “value” to the young men and communities influenced by them. Regardless of the value judgement, one thing not in dispute is the s
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Approximate Word count = 800
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page)
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