Football category: 4223 books
Science and Football VIII
The Proceedings of the Eighth World Congress on Science and Football
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Science and Football VIII showcases the very latest scientific research into the variety of sports known as ‘football’. These include soccer, the national codes (American football, Australian rules football and Gaelic football), and the rugby codes (union and league). Bridging the gap between...
Football Development Index
Rationale, Methodology, and Application
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This book provides a systematic overview of football development from a scientific perspective. The proposed multidimensional framework of assessing the concept of sports development (with a deliberate emphasis on association football) goes beyond the conventional medal tally counts and win percentages....
Rose Bowl Dreams
A Memoir of Faith, Family, and Football
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
God created college football as a grand gift to an imperfect world. I learned this as a very small boy living in the middle of the Texas Panhandle. In time I would come to believe that college football contained all of the joy, faith, pageantry, feeling, failure, and renewal that any person could...
by Peter G. Tormey
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
The Thursday Speeches contains the compelling pregame speeches, packed with inspiring stories and invaluable life lessons, that Coach Don James used to transform the University of Washington football program from obscurity to the national championship during his legendary 18-year UW career.
Two...
Reading Football
How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
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...
by Tim Tate
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
IN THEIR DAY THEY WERE BIGGER THAN BECKHAM. THEY WERE THE WORKING CLASS FACTORY GIRLS WHO PLAYED IN FRONT OF VAST CROWDS THROUGHT BRITAIN AND BECAME CELEBRITIES ACROSS THE WORLD. THEY THREATENED THE ENTIRE MALE-DOMINATED BASTION OF 20TH CENTURY FOOTBALL. SO THE FA PLOTTED TO SHUT THEM DOWN.Boxing...
Lovejoy on Football
One Man's Passion for The Most Important Subject in the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2009
Tim Lovejoy loves football. Along with Helen Chamberlain he presented Soccer AM for more than a decade to become as much a part of a football fan's weekend as phone-ins, back-page EXCLUSIVES and the vidiprinter. But why does Tim love football? Is it actually the most important subject in the world?...
by Mike Bradbury
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Association Football did not magically begin with the formation of the Football Association in 1863: for centuries before, leather and rag balls had been kicked about, often as a smoke-screen for a jolly good brawl amongst the ruffians of the town or village! In medieval times, the common people from...
Football
Les Grands Moments
Language: French
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Tout au long de son histoire, le football a compté un grand nombre de joueurs d’exception.
Parmi ces joueurs emblématiques, ce chapitre distingue quelques joueurs qui possèdent le meilleur palmarès quant au nombre de sélections et de titres remportés en club ou avec une sélection nationale....
Tim Green's Football Collection
The Big Time, Deep Zone, Unstoppable, Perfect Season
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
New York Times bestselling author and former NFL defensive end Tim Green's football stories are packed with sports action and emotional heart that will keep kids on the edge of their seats. This collection contains four bestselling novels in the series.
The Big Time: Things couldn't be going...
Saturday Millionaires
How Winning Football Builds Winning Colleges
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Last year Football Bowl Subdivision college football programs produced over $1 billion in net revenue. Record-breaking television contracts were announced. Despite the enormous revenue, college football is in upheaval. Schools are accused of throwing their academic mission aside to fund their football...
by Paul Wadlington, Jason Chilton
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Welcome to the fifth annual 2017 Longhorn Football Prospectus: Thinking Texas Football. This book is a Texas football preview, a Big 12 season companion and reference guide, and a resource for the entire football season. We started writing these guides because we believe they fill an important, underserved...
by Gioacchino Roberto Di Maio
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
The following work has as its object of study what are the main characteristics of the language of football, being considered as a special language, has specific properties .
The interest in this topic stems from my passion for the world of football, which sees me assiduously engaged in various...
by Evan Weiner
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2012
The NFL started in 1920, teams came and went. That history would repeat itself in the 1930s and the 1940s. Stability finally occurred in the 1950s with the arrival of television. Television transformed North American sports. In 1950, Baseball, Boxing and Horse Racing were among the most popular sporting...