This narrative history of minor league football teams in Connecticut in the 1960s and 1970s is based on extensive newspaper and periodical research and interviews with nearly 70 former players, broadcasters and journalists.
The All-American Football Conference was the only challenger to the NFL (except for the American Football League of the 1960s) to survive more than two seasons in competition with the established league.
Chronicling Yale football from its 1872 inception to the present, this volume offers a comprehensive coverage of the most important games, including all Yale-Harvard contests, most Yale-Princeton games, record-making performances, great plays and more.
A tight, dramatic NFL playoff game is exciting on its own, but two of the most dramatic in the same afternoon might result in the most compelling day in football history.
The San Francisco 49ers have one of the best records in NFL history, with 20 division championships, seven conference titles, and five Super Bowl championships.
Edward "e;Moose"e; Krause spent nearly sixty years as a student-athlete, coach, athletic director, and de facto ambassador to the Notre Dame's legions of fans around the world.
The day of the Ice Bowl game was so cold, the referees whistles wouldnt work; so cold, the reporters coffee froze in the press booth; so cold, fans built small fires in the concrete and metal stands; so cold, TV cables froze and photographers didnt dare touch the metal of their equipment; so cold, the game was as much about survival as it was about skill and strategy.
Described by famed baseball scribe Roger Angell as looking like ';a festive prison yard' during the 1962 World Series, Candlestick was loved and hated by sports teams and fans alike for its 43 years of existence.
Red Zone: The Greatest Victories in the History of Nebraska Footbal takes you back to the colorful characters and breathing moments that made Nebraska football the greatest program in college football and the pride of the state of Nebraska.
Author Ted Kluck found, online, a community of computer nerds and football enthusiasts so rooted in the past and so uninterested in the future that they have created algorithms and computer software that can accurately simulate football games, seasons, and careers using fields of data that already exist on the thousands of players who have suited up in the National Football League.
In 1901 workers at the Panhandle shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad in Columbus, Ohio formed a professional football team called the Columbus Panhandles.
Bill Yoast is the real-life hero of Remember the Titans, the hit movie that chronicled the struggles of black and white high school football athletes to create a championship season in 1972 Virginia.
Some would argue that professional football became America’s premier sport through a slow, painstaking evolution starting with the 1920 formation of a fourteen-team circuit that became the National Football League.
Revered pass catcher Don Hutson played for three Green Bay Packers championship squads between 1935 and 1945 and was a charter-class member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1963.
With play-by-play coverage of every Nittany Lion bowl game, this book chronicles Penn State football's vibrant history all the way back to the 1923 Rose Bowl.
Clint Castleberry was already an Atlanta-area football sensation when he arrived at Georgia Tech in 1942, and in one meteoric college season he became a national sports hero as well.
Celebrate Tom Brady's unparalleled career with this vibrant retrospective With seven Super Bowl rings, five Super Bowl MVP awards, and his name written all over the NFL record books, Tom Brady has established his position as football's GOAT: greatest of all time.
From groundbreaking trades to team-saving negotiations, Bob Whitsitt reveals the behind-the-scenes deals that changed the destinies of three iconic Pacific Northwest sports teams: the Seahawks, the SuperSonics, and the Trail Blazers.
'The Ultimate Directory of English and Scottish Football Grounds (1888-2005)' is a 240 page best selling book (with several reprints since it was first published in 2005), which provides the reader with information relating to the 323 grounds in total (206 in England and 117 in Scotland) on which League matches have been played from the first, in 1888.
Winner: North American Society for Sport History AwardNotable Title in American Intellectual History, Society for United States Intellectual HistoryAward of Superior Achievement, Illinois Historical SocietyThe quarterback sends his wide receiver deep.
Zdenscka Bacarreza Pinilla"Festejo este relato testimonial de Gustavo Levine, que de una manera muy generosa, comparte sus vivencias y nos entrega sus experiencias con la intención de comenzar a conservar la memoria del Fútbol Femenino en esta parte del mundo"Horacio Bollo"Para l@s interesad@s en adentrarse en este mundo, este libro aporta a poder "situarse en la cancha" este partido… de enseñar y de aprender jugando al Fútbol Femenino"Cintia Flamenco"Es increíble la cantidad de cosas que las mujeres debemos hacer para poder practicar este deporte, porque empezás así, empezás practicándolo pero luego comenzás a vivirlo, y cuándo menos te das cuenta no podes vivir sin él"Carlos Pinasco Singer"En mi condición hoy de Entrenador en Fútbol, he tenido el inmenso placer y el honor de encontrar profesionales como Gustavo Levine, que dentro de este deporte que amamos ha puesto de su sapiencia, experiencia y dedicación para aportar conocimiento y expresar de una forma directa vivencias, datos específicos del Fútbol Femenino en toda Latinoamérica al día de hoy"Ayelén Pujol"El libro de Gustavo Levine aparece como una pieza clave, inédita para la disciplina: el análisis del recorrido, la puesta en escena del contexto actual, las falencias, los avances, las resistencias y los aprendizajes, entre otras cuestiones, de trabajar a cargo de cuerpos técnicos de equipos femeninos"Osvaldo Conte"La rigurosidad del escrito, junto a la facilidad de lectura y lo abarcativo de todos los temas que conciernen a la actividad, lo convierten en un trabajo de lectura indispensable y de un aporte invalorable"
Bill Yoast is the real-life hero of Remember the Titans, the inspirational hit movie that chronicled the struggles of black and white high school football athletes to create a championship season in racially charged Alexandria, Virginia, in 1972.
There's nothing quite as controversial in American sports as college football's national championship, making it common fodder for talk around the water cooler as well as loftier debates among professional journalists in the sports pages.
The 50 Greatest Players in Denver Broncos History examines the careers of the 50 men who made the greatest impact on one of the National Football League's most successful franchises.
The 50 Greatest Players in Pittsburgh Steelers History examines the careers of the 50 men who made the greatest impact on one of the NFLs most iconic and successful franchises.
In this collection of anecdotes from the announcers of pro football, the Voices reminisce about a time before television, when the NFL was just making its floundering start and college ball held all the attraction.
There is no one who knows the Green Bay Packers story better than the man who has caught every tackle, touchdown and interception with a click of his shutter.
Called the "e;definitive history of the rivalry"e; by the Chicago Tribune, this updated history of the classic tilt is much more than just the recounting of old games.
From the team's meager beginning as the Dallas Texans in the fledgling American Football League in the sixties, through the ups and downs of the seventies and eighties, to the rebirth of their winning ways in the nineties, Warpaths: The Illustrated History of the Kansas City Chiefs follows one of the NFL's most popular teams through victories, setbacks, and struggles for respect.
