Football category: 4223 books
by Steve Cowens, Anthony Cronshaw
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
Football rivalry is a common factor anywhere in the world where the sport is played. But some take it far more seriously than others. In Sheffield, the traditional capital of Britain's steel manufacturing industry, there is no greater tribal divide than that between fans of Sheffield United and Sheffield...
by Alan Hansen
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
Football is a game of opinions. Alan Hansen knows this only too well. In his long, distinguished career with Liverpool he faced some fierce public criticism from the media. Now the boot is on the other foot and Hansen himself earns a living as one of football's most outspoken and popular pundits.
Hansen's...
Bury Me in My Jersey
A Memoir of My Father, Football, and Philly
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Born and raised in Eagles country, Tom McAllister learns from his father and brother the rules of being a football fan. Spending Sundays in the infamous 700 level of Veterans Stadium, or sitting in front of the TV with his father in a nearby recliner, Tom sees both the ugly and beautiful sides of...
by Mike Lupica
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
An uplifting story about role models, football, and tackling fear set in the heart of Friday Night Lights country—from the bestselling author of Heat, Travel Team, and Fantasy League.
Clay is a quarterback's dream. When he zips across the field, arms outstretched, waiting for the ball to...
Lasting Impact
One Team, One Season. What Happens When Our Sons Play Football
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
New York Times bestselling author Kostya Kennedy sets this captivating, character-rich story against the back-drop of one of the most pressing questions in sports: Should we let our sons play football? At the high end of America's most popular game is the glittering NFL, a fan-stoked money machine...
NFL Brawler
A Player-Turned-Agent's Forty Years in the Bloody Trenches of the National Football League
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
NFL Brawler is a raucous first-person account of an NFL under siege by the game’s first player-turned-agent, Ralph Cindrich, the original “Blind Side” agent whose entertaining pro football memoir takes readers behind the scenes of the game’s most important and outrageous drafts, deals, and...
by Ray Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
World Cups throw up unique tactical variations. Countries and football cultures from around the globe converge, in one place, to battle it out for world soccer supremacy. The 2014 World Cup in Brazil was no different, arguably throwing up tactical differences like never seen at a competition in modern...
by Ray Power
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
We are told that the art of defending is dying. We are told that even large academies neglect it, as it is not 'technical' enough.Based on the concept of Deliberate Practice, and extensive recent research into talent development, this book shows the coach how to organize and deliver...
Always Compete
An Inside Look at Pete Carroll and the USC Football Juggernaut
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Just when USC football was in the midst of a horrific slump, when skeptics began to say the scholarship limits had conspired to make it impossible to recapture its old glory, Coach Pete Carroll arrived to transform and invigorate the program with his own bristling energy and style. He quickly reestablished...
A Fire to Win
The Life and Times of Woody Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Woody Hayes is one of the greatest football coaches in history—and one of the most fascinating. More than a brilliant coach, he was a complicated, contradictory man. The former history teacher would tout the ideals of democracy yet run his football empire as an absolute monarchy. But he had a surprisingly...
When Saturday Mattered Most
The Last Golden Season of Army Football
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
When Saturday Mattered Most is the stirring story of the 1958 undefeated Army football team and the controversial coach who inspired Vince Lombardi
It was the end of an era, the last season before the surge of professional football began to lure the nation's best young student-athletes away...
by Rick Sherrod
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Since the first annual state football champion was crowned in 1920, Texas has never been the same. Today, millions of Texans gather in stadiums across the Lone Star State, eagerly awaiting that magical mid- to late-December moment when the season comes to its dramatic conclusion. Of the 391 high schools...
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Winning Offense
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1993
In this lucid update of his best-selling book on football's offensive ga,e. legendary coach Bud Wilkinson discusses the fundamaentals of sound offensive football and indispensable advice that will help the individual player and coach— as well as the team— improve performance. Included in this...
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Winning Defense
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1993
Defense is what wins football games, and this brilliant update of a sports instructional classic is perfectly suited to today's player, coach and fan. Here Bud Wilkinson , University of Oklahoma's famed former coach, analyzes the basic patterns and strategies employed in defensive football today....