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Fully updated with all the latest rule changes and including expanded skills, coaching and training chapters, Aussie Rules For Dummies, 2nd Edition takes you from getting a grip on the basics to more advanced aspects of playing, watching and coaching Australia's national game. Packed with practical information and fascinating anecdotes, this is the simplest, clearest and most detailed guide to AFL available.

Discover how to:

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• Wide receivers
• Running backs
• Quarterbacks
• Offensive linemen
• Tight ends
• Defensive linemen
• Linebackers
• Centers
• Defensive backs

Master the skills and techniques to play any position on the field. Football: Steps to Success covers every aspect of the game, from position fundamentals to offensive and defensive schemes and strategies. Football: Steps to Success presents straightforward instruction on essential skills, such as passing, receiving, tackling, blocking, kicking, and punting. Using 58 of the most effective drills, you'll reinforce learning and enhance your development. You'll then learn how to apply each of those skills on offense, defense, and special teams with descriptions and explanations...

This book examines how groups of young male fans come to be defined and identified as football hooligans' and challenges the assumption that violence is wholly central to the match-day experience for these supporters. Rather, the creation of identity is at the root of hooliganism, with all the cultural values and rituals, codes of honour and shame, and communal patterns of behaviour and consumption that accompany it. The author locates hooliganism historically within the milieu of an industrial working class culture and examines ideas of performance and ritual encompassed in idealized...

You've never seen football like this before

The largest collection of 19th century football art ever published -- Hundreds of illustrations.

This visual time capsule reveals how football began and evolved, and how most Americans were introduced to the game before the advent of action photography.

Illustrators include Frederic Remington, Charles Dana Gibson, A.B. Frost, Edward Penfield, I.R. Wiles, W.T. Smedley, Charles J. Taylor, and many other talented artists. Without these works of art, we would have no visual record of the early American game.

No other national stereotype in the world is so closely tied with a sport, as Brazil is with football. The five-time world champions have constructed their national identity around this sport. Perhaps for this reason it s no wonder that there are many Brazilian social scientists doing research on this theme.

The first part of this volume is dedicated to the history of Brazilian football. The main question is how did football become so popular in the country? It also looks at other interesting historical developments in Brazilian football history up to this day. The second part considers...

The Pittsburgh Steelers of the 1970s won an unprecedented and unmatched four Super Bowls in six years. A dozen of those Steelers players, coaches, and executives have been inducted into the Hall of Fame, and three decades later their names echo in popular memory: "Mean" Joe Greene, Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris, Mike Webster, Jack Lambert, Lynn Swann, and John...

The National Football League is one of the most significant cultural engines in contemporary American life. Yet despite intense and near ubiquitous media coverage, commentators rarely turn a critical lens on the league to ask what material and social forces have contributed to its success, and how the NFL has influenced public life in the United States.

The editors of and contributors to "The NFL" examine the league as a culturally, economically, and politically powerful presence in American life. The essays, by established and up-and-coming scholars, explore how the NFL is packaged...

Dating back to 1899, the football rivalry between the Arizona Wildcats and Arizona State Sun Devils is the best in the West - and regretfully, most college football fans outside the Grand Canyon State aren't familiar with its great history.

On and off the field, the rivalry between the Sun Devils and Wildcats is tumultuous for athletic, geographical, political, and personal reasons. The winner of the annual football game at the end of each season receives the Territorial Cup, the oldest collegiate rivalry trophy in the United States.

Learn about what makes this rivalry one of...