THE WAY WE PLAYED THE GAME

Book ID/图书代码： 12311005B01926

English Summary/英文概要： Armstrong deserves full marks for creative effort in his attempt at telling the story of the Benton Harbor (Mich.) High School football team’s 1903 season and at evoking the spirit of American football in its nascent form. In the prologue, he stages the book as an ostensible manuscript by the team’s quarterback, Fletcher Van Horn, whose memoir about the team, written in his old age, was discovered after moldering in a church basement for three decades. Unfortunately, this construction, like so much of the story that follows, seems a little too transparent and contrived. The action centers on Benton Harbor’s quest to exact revenge on a bunch of fast, physical players from a northern Michigan high school who beat them for the state title perhaps unfairly the year before. Enter disciplined, strategizing Coach Clayton Teetzel, who is hired to help the team on its mission, and the stage is set for a clash between the "thinking man’s game" and superior skill. Added to the mix is Van Horne, the scrawny, unlikely hero with a lot of moxie, who takes over as Benton Harbor’s quarterback. The problem for Armstrong (an architect and contributor to Michigan History Magazine), in his first book, is that his premise presents many of the issues of a novel, yet the drama is flat and predictable, and several characters, like the hawker Colonel Eastman or the antifootball crusader Miss Fitzgerald, are obvious catchalls for certain period details. The book does, however, give readers a sense of a changing game whose brutality put it in serious danger of being outlawed.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书真实地记述了20世纪初期美国一个中学的橄榄球队的训练和比赛经历。那时候的比赛比现在要危险得多，差点儿被政府禁止。流血，断骨，甚至死亡吸引了许多狂热的观众和赌徒。那时的比赛规则也与现在有很大差别。然而，现代的美国橄榄球正是从那时的基础上发展起来的。

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About the Author/作者介绍： 约翰·阿姆斯特朗写斯文和短篇故事，并为杂志写文章。“当年的橄榄球比赛”是他的第一本书。

Format:HARDCOVER

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