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The History of Football with Chuck Chalberg, PhD
Recorded course taught by Chuck Chalberg for High School American History
Summary

Whether you love football, history, or both, go beyond the stats and get to know the game and the great players firsthand with this high-interest American history course.

How to get the most out of The History of Football with Chuck Chalberg, PhD:

  • First, read the course materials below before the first class meeting.

  • Then have a notebook ready and available for class notes each live session.

  • Read assignments before class meetings

  • Watch that week’s recording if you need to revisit information from our live session.

  • Do the assignments, quizzes, and any extra work assigned for that week.

  • Once the course is completed to the parent's and professor’s satisfaction, there is a Certificate of Completion at the end to be filled in for your records.

Special Notes: This course includes a writing component.

Total classes: 6

Duration: 55 minutes

Prerequisite: None

Suggested grade level: 10th to 12th grade

Suggested credit: ½ semester Sports History or American History. For a full semester, you can take Dr. Chalberg’s History of Baseball course (available in recording through Unlimited Access)

Instructor: Chuck Chalberg, PhD

Course description: This course will cover the history of American football from the late 19th century to the modern era.

Course outline:

Week One: The origins of football

Week Two: Walter Camp and the development of college football

Week Three: The creation of the NCAA and its impact

Week Four: The origins and development of professional football

Week Five: The college and pro games in the early age of television

Week Six: From the Super Bowl to the Bowl Championship series.

Course materials: There is no text to purchase. Students will be directed to assigned readings available on the internet.

Homework: There will be weekly objective quizzes based on the material presented during the weekly talks. In addition, students will submit two pieces of writing, each in the 500-word range, based on the readings and documents that will be available online. These readings and documents will all be relatively brief. The expectation would be that students should plan on devoting roughly one-and-a-half to two hours a week to this reading and up to three hours per week for the two weeks when a paper will be due.

Technical Help: If you have any technical trouble or questions about course content, please email us at homeschoolconnections@gmail.com.

©2021 Homeschool Connections and Chuck Chalberg, PhD.  All rights reserved. This course is designed by Chuck Chalberg, PhD.

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Course name
The History of Football with Chuck Chalberg, PhD
Instructor
Chuck Chalberg
Semester
Recorded
Category
History ➤ American History
Grade level
High School
Start time
November 18th, 2021 at 12:00 AM ET
Course type
Recorded, free with subscription
Relative due dates
Relative due dates are disabled for this course.

About Dr. Chalberg

Dr. Chalberg is a graduate of Regis College (now Regis University) in Denver, Colorado. He holds an MA and PhD in history from the University of Minnesota. He taught American history at Normandale Community College in Bloomington, MN, until his retirement in 2016. He was a Fulbright lecturer in Hungary in 1992 and is a senior fellow for the Center of the American Experiment.

He has performed as G.K. Chesterton on EWTN’s “The Apostle of Common Sense” for a number of years. He performs and lectures as Chesterton at schools and parishes across the country. In addition, he performs as Theodore Roosevelt, H.L. Mencken, George Orwell, and baseball’s Branch Rickey.

His website is historyonstage.net. He has written a biography of Emma Goldman and a dual biography of Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey. He has also edited a volume on the history of American isolationism. He has written for a number of publications, including The Weekly Standard, Chronicles, the Imaginative Conservative, Touchstone, Intellectual Takeout, the University Bookman, Gilbert!, and the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Dr. Chalberg teaches the following courses:

  • American History

  • What’s Wrong with the World by G.K. Chesterton

  • Introduction to Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  • History of Baseball

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