American football

In the mid-1960s, when pro football eclipsed baseball as America's leading spectator sport, the NFL had the most exciting season in its history.

Blocking for the Gipper, Lawrence "e;Buck"e; Shaw was one of Knute Rockne's star players at Notre Dame during 1919 through 1921.

The 1951 Los Angeles Rams were one of the greatest teams in professional football history.

Amos Alonzo Stagg (1862-1965) grew up one of eight children in a poor New Jersey family, graduated high school at 21 and worked his way through Yale.

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.

Recent years have been among the most challenging in NFL history, culminating in the 2020-21 coronavirus and social justice issues.

One of the most influential sportsmen of the late 20th century, Johnny F.

In the 150 years of college football history, the national championship has been decided by unanimous vote only 33 times.

Telling the story of LSU football through coverage of each of the Tigers' 50 bowl games--from 1907 through 2019--this book provides summaries of the team's regular season, and their opponents' season, along with quarter-by-quarter game highlights, important stats, and quotes from players and coaches.

Drawing on the author's 30-year study of football statistics, this book presents new methods for analyzing the game in different ways.

The 1960s were a tumultuous period in U.

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 1972 Green Bay Packers were not expected to challenge for a playoff spot, or even to top their four victories from the season before.

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Baltimore is home to some of the greatest football players ever to step onto the gridiron.

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.

This first-ever volume focusing on sports pulp fiction devoted to America's two most popular pastimes of the 1935-1957 era--baseball and football--provides extensive detail on authors, along with examination of key plots, themes, trends and categories.

The 1958 Baltimore Colts were one of the greatest teams ever in professional football.

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.

Charles "e;Gus"e; Dorais (1891-1954) was the quarterback of Notre Dame's "e;Dorais to Rockne"e; tandem that revolutionized football's forward pass.

The Super Bowl redefined American sports.

College football teams today play for tens of thousands of fans in palatial stadiums that rival those of pro teams.

They are known as "e;cupcake games"e;--lower division teams get paid to travel to college football Meccas where the hosts make a nice profit from an extra game.

The 1970 merger between the American Football League and the National Football League laid the foundation for a stronger brand of gridiron competition, providing a new level of excitement for fans.

The 1966 Green Bay Packers were one of the greatest teams in professional football history.

In 2016 the Rams left St.

Telling the story of Saints football in New Orleans is a way to understand larger social, political and economic conditions during pivotal moments of the city's history.

One of the most ambitious (and short-lived) endeavors in professional sports history, the United States Football League was founded in 1982.

Sports fans are a devoted bunch, win or lose.

Glenn Scobey "e;Pop"e; Warner (1871-1954) stands among the giants of the coaching profession, alongside Knute Rockne, Amos Alonzo Stagg, George Halas and Vince Lombardi.

According to the National Football League, the 1972 Miami Dolphins are the only undefeated, untied Super Bowl champions.

Big television contracts in the 1960s created the Super Bowl, as well as the 1970 merger of the National Football League with the pass-oriented American Football League.

After years of playing sub-par teams in weak athletic conferences, the University of Houston athletic program sought to overcome its underdog reputation by integrating its football and basketball programs in 1964.

Under the leadership of head coach Bump Elliott, the 1964 Wolverines won Michigan's first Big Ten championship since 1950 and their first Rose Bowl since 1951, and finished fourth in the national college football polls.

Between 1929 and 1937, Hall of Fame coach Jock Sutherland took the championship program at the University of Pittsburgh that was built by his mentor Glenn "e;Pop"e; Warner, and won five of the nine national championships the school now claims.

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.

For more than 120 years, the University of Southern California Trojans have maintained a tradition of football excellence that has placed the team among the perennial elite in the collegiate ranks.

This work reveals the storied love affair that has long existed between native Nebraskans and the University of Nebraska football team.

Football is a game of numbers--fourth and inches, the three-man rush, a two point conversion, first down.

The first edition of this work, published in 1982, concentrated on the athlete's use of and the physician's knowledge of, anabolic steroids.

This book explains how the NFL determines each team's opponents and how the league's scheduling format has evolved throughout the years.

In observing todays football coaching techniques on the high school level, I have noticed that some coaches try to follow college and even pro football coaches sophisticated methods such as elaborate signals, multitude of plays, etc.

It was the fall of 1940, and Americans turned to college football for relief from the turbulent world around them.

In 1962, following two losing seasons, Coach John McKay was fighting for his job.

Volunteer coaches in recreational leagues for youngsters can make a difference, but its important that they have the tools and wisdom to be great leaders.

He began with no athletic ability.

An authoritative 100-year history of America's National Football League from its founding.

From the author of Paper Lion Following his turn as a Detroit Lions rookie in Paper Lion, George Plimpton returns to the field of American football and focuses on the careers of his Lions teammates, Alex Mad Duck Karras and John the Bear Gordy.

In the mid-1960s, George Plimpton talked his way into the Detroit Lions pre-season training camp and in doing so set the bar for participatory sports journalism.