Abstract
Almost exactly a decade after Joe Don Looney arrived on campus at Oklahoma to trash Bud Wilkinson’s revered metanarrative of wholesome warriors striving for collective progressive, another running back even more rudely repudiated Frank Merriwell’s literary archetype of football chivalry. With his first words of introduction, he made clear the model he represented would consider any idealistic Wilkinsonian selflessness or Merriwellian modesty completely alien.
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Kerr, R.L. (2015). Center Stage for Billy Clyde. In: How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism: The Billy Clyde Conundrum. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137534071_4
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