Football category: 4223 books
by Bob Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
The Ohio State Buckeyes have been a powerhouse in college football for decades, with numerous national championships and NFL draftees to their credit. With such a successful history, it's no wonder that the passion for Ohio State football has reached a level of devotion that has religious overtones....
Wishbone
Oklahoma Football, 1959–1985
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
The Oklahoma Sooners dominated the world of college football during the 1950s. Under the leadership of Coach Bud Wilkinson, the team won three national titles and established an astounding record of forty-seven straight victories that still stands today. Yet by 1959, Wilkinson’s Sooners were showing...
Youth Development in Football
Lessons from the world’s best academies
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
The identification and development of talented young players has become a central concern of football clubs at all levels of the professional game, as well as for national and international governing bodies. This is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey and assessment of youth development...
by Jonathan Bales
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Fantasy Football for Smart People: A Guide to Winning at Daily Fantasy Sports is the ultimate assortment of daily fantasy advice, tips, strategies, and league-winning data. A collection of the best daily fantasy football content from the Fantasy Football for Smart People book series, A Guide to Winning...
Is There Life After Football?
Surviving the NFL
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2014
A human face on the realities of professional football, from the challenges players face after leaving the NFL to the factors that can enable them to continue to find success
2016 Best Book Award, North American Society for the Sociology of Sport
Is There Life After Football?draws upon the experiences...
Bobby Moore to Thierry Henry
A Girl's Own Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
You never forget where you were or who you were with when you watched your first World Cup, or your second World Cup… in fact, every World Cup in your life. Liz Heade takes us on a journey through her life, beginning with her first World Cup in 1970 when, aged ten, she fell in love with Bobby Moore...
Thursday Night Lights
The Story of Black High School Football in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
At a time when "Friday night lights" shone only on white high school football games, African American teams across Texas burned up the gridiron on Wednesday and Thursday nights. The segregated high schools in the Prairie View Interscholastic League (the African American counterpart of the...
by Howie Long, John Czarnecki
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019
Are you ready for some football?
New stadiums have been built, new stars have been born, and records have been broken since the last edition of Football For Dummies. This new edition is the fan's ultimate, up-to-date guide to all things pigskin. Perfect for new and veteran fans of the sport...
Johnny Football
Johnny Manziel's Wild Ride from Obscurity to Legend at Texas A&M
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
An inside look at one of today’s most compelling athletes and his influence on college football—in Texas and across the nation.
It’s no secret that Texas is the capital of legendary football players. From Sammy Baugh to Earl Campbell to Robert Griffin III and scores of others in between,...
In Black & White
125 Moments That Made Collingwood
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
To celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Collingwood Football Club, this is the story of the Magpies – moment by moment, year by year.
Remarkably quickly after its inception in 1892, Collingwood became the powerhouse club of the competition. Soon it was developing fierce rivalries on the...
King Football
Sport and Spectacle in the Golden Age of Radio and Newsreels, Movies and Magazines, the Weekly and the Daily Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
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...
by Jim Cassell
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
The growth of soccer in America is exponential. But this is not simply a soccer manual. It is a book about America’s pride and its position in the world.
“How can America put a man on the moon almost fifty years ago and not yet win the men’s soccer World Cup?” That’s...
by Percy D. Haughton
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
The reader who wants to know how to listen to music or what to observe in a picture gallery may readily find all this information conveniently gathered in book form. Accordingly, it is fitting that to this informative library there should be added a book of football for the spectator. I maintain...
by John Cairney
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Those who have been football supporters all their lives can never forget the first match they ever saw, although they might not recall the result. This is because it is the players that stay in the memory and the magic moments they provided for millions of spectators in their time.Every generation...