Football in America is a comedy of the "good old days" of football heroes, beauty queens, pompous professors, and the first faint signs of women's liberation. In the antics of brilliant halfback Dane McLane, his ambitious coach, the "Big Bad Wolf," the speech-writing professor "William the Punctuator," the "psycho" psychology major Parker Parker, the reluctant beauty queen "Dede Brown," and her overly sexual campaign manager Millie Martin, readers will recognize familiar doings from colleges across the land, from Memphis to Miami, State College to South Bend, Knoxville to Gainesville, "Thomasville" to kingdom-come.