# Event Details

- **Event Name**: The Gridiron Gospel: Faith and Football in 20th Century America
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 04 Dec, 2025 at 06:00 pm – Thu, 04 Dec, 2025 at 07:15 pm
- **Event Description**: Professor Hunter M. Hampton (Stephen F. Austin State University) joins the CPH to discuss his new book The Gridiron Gospel: Faith and Football in 20th Century America. This event will be hosted by the Center for Presidential History and Clements Center for Southwest Studies.

From the game’s early days, college football and a strain of muscular Christianity built a mutually reinforcing culture that taught lessons in America’s dominant religious, gendered, and racial belief systems. Christians of many denominations embraced the game to shape and reshape their faith to meet the changing social demands of the twentieth century. Hunter M. Hampton analyzes the impact of football on Christian college campuses. Baptists and Latter-day Saints, Evangelicals and Roman Catholics sought spiritual and personal meaning on the gridiron. Fans watched the action to find God’s lessons for them. Wins and losses expressed the divine will while the game’s popularity offered a potent way to evangelize non-believers. Hampton also investigates the sport’s place in providing a stage for fostering Christian manhood, male community, gender dominance, and on-the-field displays of heroic savagery that served a higher purpose. Provocative and engaging, The Gridiron Gospel looks at the All-American fusion of physical and spiritual muscle.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/dallas/the-gridiron-gospel-faith-and-football-in-20th-century-america/200029297467054
- **Event Categories**: Sports
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Dallas
- **state**: TX
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 3225 University Blvd, Dallas, TX, United States, Texas 75205
- **lat**: 32.84544
- **long**: -96.78469
- **full address**: 3225 University Blvd, Dallas, TX, United States, Texas 75205

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is The Gridiron Gospel: Faith and Football in 20th Century America being held?
  - **A:** The Gridiron Gospel: Faith and Football in 20th Century America takes place on Thu, 04 Dec, 2025 at 06:00 pm to Thu, 04 Dec, 2025 at 07:15 pm at 3225 University Blvd, Dallas, TX, United States, Texas 75205.
- **Q**: Who is organizing The Gridiron Gospel: Faith and Football in 20th Century America?
  - **A:** The Gridiron Gospel: Faith and Football in 20th Century America is organized by SMU Center for Presidential History.

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