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Stadium Stories: Iowa Hawkeyes
ISBN: 9780762738199 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Relive Classic Moments in Hawkeyes History!
Thrilling victories, crushing defeats, comical mishaps, and colorful coaches, players, and fans-these are the legendary moments and larger-than-life personalities that have made the Iowa Hawkeyes a gridiron favorite. In Stadium Stories: Iowa Hawkeyes, veteran journalist Buck Turnbull shares his favorite memories of this beloved team. Together you'll relive the highs and lows and become reacquainted with some of the team's all-time greatest heroes and legends including: "Nile Kinnick, Hawkeye football legend and winner of the 1939 Heisman... Relive Classic Moments in Hawkeyes History!
Thrilling victories, crushing defeats, comical mishaps, and colorful coaches, players, and fans-these ... |
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Saint Bobby and the Barbarians: The Inside Story of a Tumultuous Season with the Florida State Seminoles
ISBN: 9780767908603 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The American Football League a Year-By-Year History, 1960-1969
ISBN: 9780786403998 / Angielski / Miękka / 293 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unable to buy into an existing team and rebuffed by National Football League owners who had no desire to expand, 27-year-old Lamar Hunt, the son of Texas billionaire H.L. Hunt, formed the American Football League in 1959. He placed his team in Dallas, called them the Texans, and invited other young entrepreneurs to join him. The seven men who did called themselves members of the "Foolish Club, " but on September 9, 1960, the AFL made its regular season debut and went on to change the face of football forever. Unlike the NFL, the American Football League featured wide open offenses and...
Unable to buy into an existing team and rebuffed by National Football League owners who had no desire to expand, 27-year-old Lamar Hunt, the son of Te...
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College Football Stadiums: An Illustrated Guide to NCAA Division I-A
ISBN: 9780786409020 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text is a complete guide to the football stadiums of the 110 colleges and universities that are in the NCAA Division. Information for each stadium includes the year it opened, its current seating capacity, and its playing field surface.
This text is a complete guide to the football stadiums of the 110 colleges and universities that are in the NCAA Division. Information for each stadiu...
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Uniform Numbers of the NFL: All-Time Rosters, Facts and Figures
ISBN: 9780786420575 / Angielski / Miękka / 429 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Football is a game of numbers--fourth and inches, the three-man rush, a two point conversion, first down. Even with the obvious numbers in the statistics, rules and game situations, the players' uniform numbers themselves have become part of professional football and its lore. NFL players, like modern-day gladiators, are fitted head-to-toe in protective gear, obscuring even their faces from their most loyal fans. They have become largely identifiable through their uniform numbers. You cannot conjure up Larry Csonka without seeing the number 39 crashing through the line of scrimmage, or recall...
Football is a game of numbers--fourth and inches, the three-man rush, a two point conversion, first down. Even with the obvious numbers in the statist...
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Huskerville: A Story of Nebraska Football, Fans, and the Power of Place
ISBN: 9780786432066 / Angielski / Miękka / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work reveals the storied love affair that has long existed between native Nebraskans and the University of Nebraska football team. The author, drawing upon his experiences as a devoted "Huskerviller" along with an extensive collection of interviews and questionnaires with fellow Husker fans, composes a story that highlights how the culture, history, and geography of Nebraska are intimately embedded in fans' devotion to the Cornhuskers. The book features photographs and an extensive bibliography, while two appendices provide samples of the author's questionnaires and 16 essays written by...
This work reveals the storied love affair that has long existed between native Nebraskans and the University of Nebraska football team. The author, dr...
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Football and American Identity
ISBN: 9780789025265 / Angielski / Twarda / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Falk (sociology, State University College of New York) explores the social conditions and cultural implications of American football, and discovers that, football is the essence of the American spirit which has made the United States the leader of the world. He examines the college football athlete and coach, football as a profession, the psychol
Falk (sociology, State University College of New York) explores the social conditions and cultural implications of American football, and discovers th...
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677,30 |
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Football and American Identity
ISBN: 9780789025272 / Angielski / Miękka / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines the social conditions and cultural implications found in the football sub-culture, represented by core values such as competition, conflict diversity, power, economic success, fair play, liberty and patriotism. patriotism.
Examines the social conditions and cultural implications found in the football sub-culture, represented by core values such as competition, conflict d...
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Forever Red: Confessions of a Cornhusker Football Fan
ISBN: 9780803243101 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On any given workday, any little thing might send Steve Smith s thoughts spinning back to Saturday last Saturday, Saturday two weeks ago, Saturday two years ago, back into the thrilling minutiae of game day until reality reminds him: this is not how well-adjusted adults act. Steve Smith is not a well-adjusted adult. He s a Nebraska football fan, and this is his rollicking account of what it s like to be one of those legendary enthusiasts whose passion for the Cornhuskers is at once alarming and hilarious.A journey into an obsessed Nebraska fan s soul, Forever Red immerses readers in the mad,...
On any given workday, any little thing might send Steve Smith s thoughts spinning back to Saturday last Saturday, Saturday two weeks ago, Saturday two...
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A Season in Purgatory: Villanova and Life in College Football's Lower Class
ISBN: 9780803259591 / Angielski / Miękka / 333 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At a school where basketball is king, the Villanova football team battles opponents both on and off the field. Low on cash and recruiting power, the Division I-AA Wildcats must constantly justify their existence to a prestigious academic institution and the students and alumni who bemoan the team s minor league status. This story of Villanova s 2005 season is an inside account of a football program wading through the political mire to bring glory to a school largely indifferent to its efforts.Through the Wildcats' experience, Tony Moss explores the inner workings of college football,...
At a school where basketball is king, the Villanova football team battles opponents both on and off the field. Low on cash and recruiting power, the D...
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The Game of the Century: Nebraska Vs. Oklahoma in College Football's Ultimate Battle
ISBN: 9780803264625 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On Thanksgiving Day 1971 a record fifty-five million homes tuned in to watch two powerhouse college football teams collide. The defending national champion, the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers, was squaring off against the number one offense in the country and second-ranked team, the Oklahoma Sooners. Combining a meticulously researched history of college football with in-depth interviews, Michael Corcoran reveals the play-by-play strategies and techniques, the personalities of the coaches who conceived the plans and the players who executed them, and the formations and...
On Thanksgiving Day 1971 a record fifty-five million homes tuned in to watch two powerhouse college football teams collide. The defendin...
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The Wow Boys: A Coach, a Team, and a Turning Point in College Football
ISBN: 9780803276321 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2002 ESPN rated football's shift to the modern T-formation offense as the second best sports innovation of all time-just behind baseball's free agency. The story behind the move to the T-formation is also the story of a season unparalleled in the annals of college football-the year Stanford's new coach, fresh from seven dismal seasons with the University of Chicago, deployed an out-of-favor offense to take a team of talented underdogs to a Rose Bowl victory. The Wow Boys (the title refers to the nickname the team earned at its very first game) chronicles Stanford's miraculous 1940 season,...
In 2002 ESPN rated football's shift to the modern T-formation offense as the second best sports innovation of all time-just behind baseball's free age...
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Out of Their League
ISBN: 9780803283145 / Angielski / Miękka / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dave Meggyesy had been an outside linebacker with the St. Louis Cardinals for seven years when he quit at the height of his career to tell about the dehumanizing side of the game about the fraud and the payoffs, the racism, drug abuse, and incredible violence. The original publication of Out of Their League shocked readers and provoked the outraged response that rocked the sports world in the 1970s. But his memoir is also a moving description of a man who struggled for social justice and personal liberation. Meggyesy has continued this journey and remains an active champion for players...
Dave Meggyesy had been an outside linebacker with the St. Louis Cardinals for seven years when he quit at the height of his career to tell about the d...
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What a Game They Played: An Inside Look at the Golden Era of Pro Football
ISBN: 9780803298194 / Angielski / Miękka / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In their own words, the pioneers and legends of professional football tell of the early glory years of the National Football League. From the 1920s through the 1940s, pro football players were paid only hundreds of dollars per game and rarely had substitutes. The conditions and times of this era are vividly recalled by such players as Red Grange, Johnny Blood, Clarke Hinkle, Ace Parker, Shipwreck Kelly, Mel Hein, Sammy Baugh, Don Hutson, and Sid Luckman. The players also reveal personal glimpses of how they got started in football, the conditions on the field, their life away from it, and...
In their own words, the pioneers and legends of professional football tell of the early glory years of the National Football League. From the 1920s th...
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Forty-Seven Straight: The Wilkinson Era at Oklahoma
ISBN: 9780806135694 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Football tradition at the University of Oklahoma still runs strong, as does the record of forty-seven consecutive victories that legendary coach Bud Wilkinson and his players set in the 1950s. Approached but never equaled by teams such as Washington, Miami, and Texas, the streak contributed to the acclaim Wilkinson garnered by amassing an impressive three national championships (1950, 1955, and 1956), twelve consecutive conference titles, twenty-three straight wins on opposing fields, Top Ten rankings for eleven successive years, and a thirty-one game winning streak before the unforgettable...
Football tradition at the University of Oklahoma still runs strong, as does the record of forty-seven consecutive victories that legendary coach Bud W...
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An Autumn Remembered: Bud Wilkinson's Legendary's 56 Sooners
ISBN: 9780806137865 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1956, a group of young mensons of the Great Depressionwere now student athletes in every sense of the phrase. Their young coach was on the verge of an unprecedented winning streak, and Bud Wilkinson s 56 Sooners formed the touchstone of the University of Oklahoma s football dynasty. This team was the heart and soul of OU s record 47-straight victories. "An Autumn Remembered" traces the details of the remarkable 56 season and follows the team into the present through revealing interviews with the principal players. In this stirring account, Gary T. King brings to life a journey filled... In 1956, a group of young mensons of the Great Depressionwere now student athletes in every sense of the phrase. Their young coach was on the verge... |
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Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle
ISBN: 9780807847510 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is football an athletic contest or a social event? Is it a game of skill, a test of manhood, or merely an organized brawl? Michael Oriard, a former professional player, asks these and other intriguing questions in Reading Football, the first contemporary book about football's formative years.
American football began in the 1870s as a game to be played, not watched. Within a brief ten years, it had become a great public spectacle with an immense following, a phenomenon caused primarily by the voluminous commentary about the game conducted in popular newspapers and magazines.... Is football an athletic contest or a social event? Is it a game of skill, a test of manhood, or merely an organized brawl? Michael Oriard, a former pr...
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King Football: Sport and Spectacle in the Golden Age of Radio and Newsreels, Movies and Magazines, the Weekly and the Daily Press
ISBN: 9780807855454 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This landmark work explores the vibrant world of football from the 1920s through the 1950s, a period in which the game became deeply embedded in American life. Though millions experienced the thrills of college and professional football firsthand during these years, many more encountered the game through their daily newspapers or the weekly Saturday Evening Post, on radio broadcasts, and in the newsreels and feature films shown at their local movie theaters. Asking what football meant to these millions who followed it either casually or passionately, Michael Oriard reconstructs a...
This landmark work explores the vibrant world of football from the 1920s through the 1950s, a period in which the game became deeply embedded in Ameri...
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For Pride, Profit, and Patriarchy: Football and the Incorporation of American Cultural Values
ISBN: 9780810836853 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sports history has emerged as a popular study over the past quarter century, and scholars have fueled this interest by providing a wealth of information on baseball and its role in American culture. Despite this increasing focus on the connection between sports and societal values, football, the sport that emerged in the late nineteenth century and merged the values of winning and commercialization with the culture of higher education, has been left relatively unexplored. This gap in sports history has left many questions unanswered, including football's link to American cultural values....
Sports history has emerged as a popular study over the past quarter century, and scholars have fueled this interest by providing a wealth of informati...
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Football's Stars of Summer: A History of the College All Star Football Game Series of 1934-1976
ISBN: 9780810840270 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On August 31, 1934, the first College All-Star Football Game was played at Soldier Field in Chicago. This gridiron spectacular series, which continued until 1976, served as a major factor in the popularization and growth of professional football into its current position as the "National Game" of the United States. Football's Stars of Summer reviews each year of this classic series, including the excitement of selecting the college players; the frequent battles between the two sides over game rules; and the All-Stars' grueling pre-game training camps in the heat of summer, that often produced...
On August 31, 1934, the first College All-Star Football Game was played at Soldier Field in Chicago. This gridiron spectacular series, which continued...
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