Football category: 4223 books
Lost Champions
Four Men, Two Teams, and the Breaking of Pro Football’s Color Line
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
The story of the integration of professional football--the year before Jackie Robinson did the same for baseball--has been overlooked for too long.
Many know the story of Jackie Robinson integrating major league baseball in 1947. But few know that the NFL integrated a year earlier, when Kenny...
Fifty Years of Flicking Football
1946-1996
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
‘Fifty Years of Flicking Football’ is a concise history of the game of - table football - ‘Subbuteo’, from its inception in 1946 to the modern day. The book will appeal to, and bring back memories, to countless boys (aged 8 to 80), worldwide, who at one time have played the game, and indeed...
Fantasy Footall Basics
The Ultimate "How-to" Guide for Beginners
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
How to play, enjoy and win Fantasy Football. Finally, an easy and straightforward way to learn how to play fantasy football. Learn the easy way. Everything you need to play. A book every beginner will enjoy!
Answers these questions:
• Why play fantasy football?
• Where...
by Daniel R. Grimes
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2015
The Ice Bowl, an epic contest between the Green Bay Packers and the Dallas Cowboys, was the coldest pro football game ever played. It pitted Vince Lombardi and the Packers’ 1960s dynasty against Tom Landry and the up-and-coming Cowboys. The challenge of playing against a strong opponent was compounded...
The Football Solution
How Richmond’s premiership can save Australia
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
A sport unlike any other in the world, football has always been Australia's bellwether. But at a time when politics is increasingly conducted like sports - full of one-eyed tribalism, captain's calls and policy dictated by the Newspoll scoreboard - football is the one institution that's more relevant...
The Sack Race
The Story of Football's Gaffers
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
The future of football management is a hot topic of debate. An unprecedented spate of sackings in the 2001-02 season and the manner of many of the dismissals filled the back pages. There has even been talk of managers going on strike to defend their ill-treated colleagues.
Packed with big names...
Rockne and Jones
Notre Dame, USC, and the Greatest Rivalry of the Roaring Twenties
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Notre Dame’s rallying cry was once “Win one for the Gipper.” The football series with Army that spawned that memorable slogan has long since faded into history, but every year the Irish continue to face another storied rival to test their mettle. The annual tradition of Notre Dame versus USC...
by Robert T. Belie
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
College football conferences are a beautiful mess. A hodgepodge of all sorts of names, sizes, and locations. Added to all the confusion is the fact that this year marks the first time the College Football Playoff (CFP) system will be used by the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). And it's up to...
by Dougie Brimson
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2006
One of the great joys of football fandom is that it provides the perfect opportunity to complain and make a point. For example, the referee was biased, the overpaid strikers hopeless, attendance poor, the tea weak and the pies inedible. That, for many fans, is a part of the attraction which football...
by Barney Ronay
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
The summer of 2018: England sweltered in the most sustained heatwave for 42 years, the government tore itself apart over deals and no deals, and hundreds of miles away, in a taciturn and strange state, the national football team did the unthinkable in the World Cup: they didn’t screw it up. The...
The Future of Football
Challenges for the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
World football has undergone unprecedented change over the past decade. On the field, the richest European clubs have retained their pre-eminence, but with multinational playing squads backed up by global marketing industries. Club ownership rests increasingly with impersonal shareholders, rather...
by John White
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
There is something for every football fan in "The Premiership Football Miscellany". This title is neither a work of reference, nor a compendium of lists, nor a collection of biographies, nor a compilation of trivia. In fact, it is a glorious mixture of all these things and much more besides. The reader...
Governance, Citizenship and the New European Football Championships
The European Spectacle
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Over the past decade, European football has seen tremendous changes impacting upon its international framework as well as local traditions and national institutions. Processes of Europeanization in the fields of economy and politics provided the background for transformations of the production and...
by Richard J. Shmelter
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
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. Eleven national championships, 38 conference titles, 150 All-Americans, and seven Heisman Trophy winners...