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When Francis Schmidt, a bow tie wearing law school graduate with a bombastic personality, got started as a volunteer high school coach, football still followed Victorian tenets of caution and simplicity and often employed fewer than fifty plays. By the time Frantic Francis had risen through the ranks of small colleges on the plains to one of the top coaching jobs in America head coach at Ohio State University in the 1930s football was a wild, wide-open game, largely because of Schmidt s own daring style. With a mind that never stopped thinking about football, he created a playbook ten times...

As a self-styled press agent, the audacious Exlee Ellis makes it his business to know who's doing what, to whom, and why-so he can sell the juicy tidbits to the daily papers of Stout City, Iowa. It's a living, and as the Depression ravages the nation, that's no small thing. When Exlee comes up with a tantalizing story about the city's biggest employer-Pinwheel Coffee-Stout City Sun editor Deacon Lowe knows it might boost circulation and save the floundering paper from doom. But if the story turns out to be a scam-as Deacon fears-the Sun might never recover. It seems that someone is scheming,...