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Author
Series
NFL today volume 2004
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of the team from its beginnings through 2002.
Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Follows the players from West Point and Annapolis through the 1995 football season, tracing the ups and downs of both teams as they deal with the rigors of the game and academic pressures while preparing for the traditional Army-Navy showdown.
Author
Publisher
Crown Archetype
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"With unparalleled access to Heisman Trophy-winning phenom Johnny Manziel, Bruce Feldman has written a modern-day tale about the making of the next superstars in football's most important position: the quarterback. In the world of modern football, with teams worth a billion dollars or more, no position defines a franchise like quarterback. To tell the story of all that goes on to create the perfect quarterback, bestselling author Bruce Feldman gained...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"The 1972 Miami Dolphins had something to prove. Losers in the previous Super Bowl, a ragtag bunch of overlooked, underappreciated, or just plain old players, they were led by Don Shula, a genius young coach obsessed with obliterating the reputation that he couldn't win the big game. And as the Dolphins headed into only their seventh season, all eyes were on Miami. For the last time, a city was hosting both national political conventions, and the...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On November 23, 1968, near the end of a turbulent and memorable year, there was a football game that would also prove turbulent and memorable: the season-ending clash between Harvard and Yale. Both teams entered undefeated and, technically at least, came out undefeated. The final score was 29-29. To some of the players on the field, it was a triumph; to others a tragedy. And to many, the reasons had as much to do with one side's miraculous comeback...
Publisher
Triumph Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Through 100 evocative, often stunning photographs, as well as the stories that accompany them, Sports Illustrated visits the great arc of football, America's most popular spectator sport. From the dawn of the professional era, through the days of Vince Lombardi and Johnny Unitas, the westward expansion and the thrilling Super Bowls of today, football's rich and remarkable history is here. Unforgettable events such as the Greatest Game Ever Played,...
Author
Publisher
Triumph Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This books is about the famous 1982 football game between Cal and Stanford"--
"The wildest finish ever to a college football game occurred when five laterals on the final kickoff ended with a sprint through the opposing team's marching band-prematurely in celebration on the field-for the winning touchdown. It was 21 seconds of action so unfathomable it has become known simply as The Play.Five Laterals and a Trombone captures the madcap story as...
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Editions
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
In the autumn of 1912, the football team from Carlisle Indian Industrial School took the field at the U.S. Military Academy, home to the bigger, stronger, and better-equipped West Point Cadets. Sportswriters billed the game as a sort of rematch, pitting against each other the descendants of U.S. soldiers and American Indians who fought on the battlefield only 20 years earlier. But for lightning-fast Jim Thorpe and the other Carlisle players, that...
13) Marn Grook
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Marn Grook explores the history, achievements and struggles of Aboriginal sportsmen involved in our National game, 'Aussie Rules'. Through perseverance, natural ability and a love for the game, Aboriginal players have been able to overcome the many barriers placed before them to gain recognition and respect for their prowess on the football field. Marn Grook is a celebration of Australian Rules and the great contribution Aboriginal players have made...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"How Dabo Swinney's energy, faith, and determination turned the Clemson Tigers into a powerhouse football team. Dabo Swinney is universally regarded as the best college football coach in America not named Nick Saban. Dabo's World is the first sweeping biography of Dabo Swinney that attempts to unlock the secrets to his success, including his distinguishing coaching methods and his theories for developing players. A former walk-on at Alabama, Dabo...
19) Paterno
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
By America's premier sportswriter, written with full cooperation of Joe Paterno and his family, this account defines the epic life of America's winningest college football coach.
Author
Publisher
Triumph Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Sal Paolantonio of ESPN takes readers inside the improbable 2017 championship season of the Philadelphia Eagles--from training camp to the first Super Bowl title in franchise history. This is the inside story you will get nowhere else--from the team's storybook start to the nail-biting victory over the New England Patriots in Minneapolis, featuring the "Philly Special," perhaps the most memorable play in Super Bowl history. Through exclusive interviews,...
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