Robert J. Higgs
Robert J. (Jack) Higgs attended Vanderbilt University and graduated from the United States Naval Academy. After military service he earned his Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee. For twenty-seven years he was professor of English at East Tennessee State University teaching courses in American literature, Great Books, and the Literature of Sports. He is the author of Laurel and Thorn: The Athlete in American Literature and God in the Stadium: Sports and Religion in America.