Leatherheads of the North: The True Story of Ernie Nevers & the Duluth Eskimos [Paperback]

Chuck Frederick (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 163 pages
• Publisher: X-Communication; First Edition edition (October 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1887317325
• ISBN-13: 978-1887317320
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #876,375 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Football when men were men, April 28, 2008

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R. E Westgard "Viking" (Bay Lake & St Paul, MN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Leatherheads of the North: The True Story of Ernie Nevers & the Duluth Eskimos (Paperback)

Although he's a Packers fan, author Frederick gives this Minnesota team its due. Anyone who likes football will enjoy this story about athletes who played with less protective gear and for even less money. The story flows naturally from the pen of an author whose love for the game shows through. I would have liked more photographs from the era.;

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fine Book About A Pioneering Team, June 12, 2009

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Winslow Bunny "Winslow_Bunny" (Rockledge, Florida United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Leatherheads of the North: The True Story of Ernie Nevers & the Duluth Eskimos (Paperback)

The Duluth Eskimos competed in the NFL from 1923 to 1927, the formative years of the league. The passage of 80 years has relegated the team to a footnote in the leagues history, but Chuck Frederick's "Leatherheads of the North" seeks to reintroduce this forgotten team to NFL fans.

The Eskimos featured three future Hall of Famers and, throughout their short history, rounded out their roster with a group of players who gained their initial football experience on local sandlots and high school fields. In competing with other league teams, most of the time they found themselves outnumbered and less experienced. In addition, few NFL teams wanted to play in Duluth, so the Eskimos found themselves traveling for most of their games - at the mercy of local referees and the rigors of the road. Yet the pioneers of the NFL, such as George Halas, remembered them fondly to be a courageous bunch of tough players who could keep up with most teams on skill and fortitude.

Frederick's book attempts to bring the story of the Eskimos to our modern times, and does this quite well. Stories, play-by-play documentation and records were sketchy back then, but Frederick does his best with the information that he has. The book is short - only 150 pages in the main section - and one wishes that the book could be more in depth: longer. Kind of like we wish the Eskimos could have played longer.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Leatherheads, November 17, 2009

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This review is from: Leatherheads of the North: The True Story of Ernie Nevers & the Duluth Eskimos (Paperback)

Being an early Vikings fan of the Bud Grant era, this is quintessential trivia and historical knowledge that is throughly enjoyable. I did not know this history of the early NFL.