Football category: 4223 books
by Harry Harris
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Ever since Fever Pitch there have been a handful of accomplished personal accounts of an individual's love-affair with their football club. They have all followed in the footsteps of Nick Hornby's classic, seen through a one dimensional fan's perspective. This account is different. Very different....
by Steve Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
For over half a century, Match of the Day has been essential viewing for football fans, whatever their allegiance – and no programme has captured the star-studded era of the Premier League better. From Wayne Rooney’s first stunning goal and Sergio Aguero’s last second title winning strike to...
by Rob Hadgraft
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Although it took Ipswich Town FC many years to take the plunge and turn professional, once they did so they quickly prospered. Town joined the Football League in 1938, and, before 20 seasons had elapsed, had three divisional championships in the bag - including, astonishingly, the League title at the...
by Nick Holt
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
A truly mammoth football quiz book covering over twenty years of the Premier League and the entire history of the beautiful (and sometimes not so beautiful) game. All the major international tournaments are covered, as well as the full history of the domestic game, both recent and historical - even...
Tigers vs. Jayhawks
From the Civil War to the Battle for No.1
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Missouri and Kansas went from unranked at the start of the 2007 college football season to playing for No. 1 in the country on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, so no wonder Brent Musburger chose his words carefully as he addressed a national television audience moments before kickoff of the rivals’...
Pigskin Rapture
Four Days in the Life of Texas Football
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Pigskin Rapture team captures the sights, sounds, and smells of a state smitten with football, from K-D’s Barbecue in Midland, to the rarefied air of Cowboys owner Jerry Jones’s private box in AT & T Stadium. Here, too, are the more subtle and occasionally unseen manifestations of Texas football...
Across The Great Divide
A History of Professional Football in Dundee
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Dundee. To football fans, it has been the subject of great curiosity for as long as the game has been played professionally. How does a relatively small and economically challenged city manage to sustain two senior clubs which, perversely, play across the road from one another? And why has this rivalry...
Monster of the Midway
Bronko Nagurski, the 1943 Chicago Bears, and the Greatest Comeback Ever
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Jim Dent's Monster of the Midway is the story of football's fiercest competitor, the legendary Bronko Nagurski. From his discovery in the middle of a Minnesota field to his 1943 comeback season at Wrigley, from the University of Minnesota to the Hall of Fame, Bronko Nagurksi's life is a story of grit,...
The Heisman
Great American Stories of the Men Who Won
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Close your eyes and picture the
Heisman Trophy. The form is easy
to conjure, a graceful, fluid pose
that is football past and football present
in one dignified figure ...
The story of the Heisman Trophy
is an american epic.
-- from the Preface
No sport in America can match the pageantry, raw...
Wildcats to Powercats
K-State Football Facts and Trivia
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
Beginning with the first official football game played by K-State in 1896, the purple-clad gridders always struggled to find respectability. By the end of the 1980s, the team was mired in a 30-game winless streak and considered the worst college football team in America.
Then the turn around.
Bill...
The Champions of Philadelphia
The Greatest Eagles, Phillies, Sixers, and Flyers Teams
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Since the start of the twentieth century, Philadelphia’s professional teams in four major sports have won a combined total of seventeen championships. All of Philadelphia’s current teams-the Phillies in baseball, the Eagles in football, the Flyers in ice hockey, and the 76ers in basketball-have...
Just Win, Baby
The Al Davis Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Revealing how an obscure young assistant coach, in less than a decade, progressed to become a head coach, general manager, league commissioner, and controlling partner of the Oakland Raiders franchise, this biography pays tribute to the late Al Davis. Contrary to Davis’s notoriously quirky and reclusive...
Crimson Nation
The Shaping of the South's Most Dominant Football Team
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
The Crimson Tide have won 16 national championships (more than any other school), produced more than 100 All-Americans, and sent more than 200 players to the NFL. Alabama is arguably the most successful and most prestigious college football program in history, shaped by proud players wearing the Crimson...
The Real All Americans
The Team That Changed a Game, a People, a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Sally Jenkins, bestselling co-author of It's Not About the Bike, revives a forgotten piece of history in The Real All Americans. In doing so, she has crafted a truly inspirational story about a Native American football team that is as much about football as Lance Armstrong's book was about a bike.
If...