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6) Play big
Author
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When Jen Welter became a linebackers coach for the Arizona Cardinals in 2015, she was the first woman to ever break the glass sideline of the NFL. In Play Big, Welter reveals the grit that it took to be a trailblazer in the ultimate boys' club. Pre-NFL, Welter was an undersized, underestimated athlete who made sacrifice after sacrifice to acheive her football dreams--rising to the top of women's football leagues and eventually daring to play against...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author and sports talk show host Michael Holley gives readers an inside look into the story of the legendary Tom Brady, Bill Belichick and four-time Super Bowl winning New England Patriots. -- Publisher's annotation.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"This book profiles some of the most innovative coaches from the early days of the NFL, including George Halas, Potsy Clark, and Clark Shaughnessy. Along with biographical and career details, the profiles also examine the coaches' strategic approaches, their impact on the history of the game, and the evolution of the coaching profession"--
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...
10) Heart and steel
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Born and raised just fifteen minutes from old Three Rivers Stadium, it was in Crafton where the foundation of Cowher's work ethic, passion for teaching, and love of football and the Pittsburgh Steelers were built. Here Cowher takes readers on his journey from childhood to the undersized North Carolina State linebacker, to fighting for a spot with the Browns and Eagles, before injuries ended his playing career. He shares never-before-told anecdotes...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the 1942 Rose Bowl was moved from Pasadena to Duke University out of fear of further Japanese attacks on the West Coast. Shortly after this unforgettable game, many of the players and coaches left their respective colleges, entered the military, and went on to serve around the world in famous battlegrounds, from Iwo Jima and Okinawa to Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge, where fate and destiny would bring...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Spanning seven decades, the notorious loss of Super Bowl III, and an historic undefeated season with the Dolphins, Shula is the definitive biography of a coaching legend. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1997, Don Shula remains the winningest coach of all time with 347 career victories and the only undefeated season in NFL history. But before he became the architect of the Dolphins dynasty, Shula was a hardworking kid selling fish on the banks of...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"The Blindside meets Friday Night Lights in Keanon Lowe's Hometown Victory when an NFL coach returns home after losing a friend to opiods to coach a team of struggling high school kids on a 23-game losing streak. Keanon Lowe was working as an offensive analyst for the San Francisco 49ers when his childhood friend and former high school teammate suddenly died from an opioid overdose. Keanon dropped everything--including the plum NFL job he had been...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Super Bowl XLII was the greatest upset in NFL history. In A GIANT WIN, Coach Tom Coughlin recounts the strategies and people that made it possible. Coach Coughlin reveals the intricacies of the game, revealing details only a coach would know. He also details, more than ever before, his relationships with some of the greatest, most iconic players of those Giants teams, like Eli Manning and Michael Strahan. A GIANT WIN also provides a frame for Coach...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
Corruption, scandals, and reports of wrongdoing in college football are constantly in the news. From Penn State's Joe Paterno to Ohio State's Jim Tressel, we have come to learn that some of the most lauded coaches don't always live up to their saintly reputations. Perhaps no era of college football was ever more emblematic of this than the early 1900s, a time when coaches worked the system with merciless flair to recruit the best players and then...
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