Before evangelicals had their own versions of “secular” music and movies, they had their own fictional schoolboy athlete. My look at Tom Huntner, an obscure relic of the fundamentalist/neo-evangelical subculture sportianity.com/2018/07/the-fu… 
From 1946, an ad and review in The Evangelical Beacon for the second Huntner book
Other ads for the books aimed at the coveted “red-blooded boys” demographic
I end this piece by mentioning prominent evangelical athletes who carried on the Merriwell/All-American thing in modified form. But I'd love to hear from #twitterstorians & sports observers about this. From the past half-century (ish), who else comes to mind?
