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The Golden Age of Red
A Novel of Red Grange, The Galloping Ghost
At the height of the Roaring Twenties, college football star Red Grange craved normalcy. He longed to finish his season, earn a degree, settle down, and start a business career. Ever modest and shy, Red was poised to achieve his quiet dreams until sportswriters across the country anointed him the greatest football player of all time.
Catapulting to a level of fame beyond even Babe Ruth, Red didn’t know where to turn. His girlfriend, coach, friends, family, boosters, and the fledgling NFL all craved a piece of him. With swaggering confidence and a silver tongue, C.C. Pyle, America’s first sports agent, dangled before Red an alternate destiny.
As the final game clock ticked down, Red struggled to appease those he loved without sacrificing his soul. All the while, his decision played out against the glittering, raucous backdrop of a decade of flappers, jazz, and speakeasies known as the Golden Age of Sports.
Meet the Author
Doug Villhard
Writer, Professor, Entrepreneur, Investor, Philanthropist
Doug Villhard is a professor, entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. After decades of starting and selling companies, he is supposed to be retired, but instead is having too much fun heading the #1-ranked entrepreneurship department at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis.
Doug, Diane, and their four children live just outside of St. Louis in Glen Carbon, Illinois, where they co-founded Father McGivney Catholic High School.
When Doug isn’t writing, teaching, investing in startups, or serving on boards, he’s perpetually working toward achieving a respectable golf score-
READER REVIEWS
Praise for THE GOLDEN AGE OF RED
Fascinating foreshadowing of the NIL landscape of modern college sports. Well done.
Meticulously researched and wonderfully portrayed historical fiction.
Villhard scores a touchdown with this novel!