Football category: 4223 books
by Athlon Sports
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2003
True Crimson Tide fans can tell you where they were when championships were won, heartbreakers were lost, records were broken, and heroes were made. Dixie's Football Pride is a gift book for true University of Alabama fans, celebrating the history, the pageantry, and the drama of Alabama Football...
by American Youth Football, Joe Galat
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
Congratulations on your commitment to coach youth football. If you have played but haven’t coached before, you’ll need some help to make your first season a success. If you have coached previously, every season is an opportunity to do better.
Coaching Youth Football, with its field-tested...
by Suzy Beamer Bohnert
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Imagine receiving an invitation to your boss's party to watch a football game. Horror strikes because you don't know the first thing about the sport-or maybe you'd like to know more. Or, you love your job, and you want to impress your supervisor and colleagues. But what's a touchdown? Why are those...
The Game Changers
Abner Haynes, Leon King, and the Fall of Major College Football's Color Barrier in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The “moving account” of how two young football players fought racism and forced the integration in football-crazy 1950s Texas (Library Journal).
In 1956, in the town of Denton, Texas, two African American football players from Dallas’s segregated public school system boldly walked on to play...
by Football Playbooks
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
If you are coaching youth football, then practice is where your team becomes :all that they can be". Every successful youth football coach know how to plan a practice and prepare his team in the right way. Far too many coaches do not know what they ar doing and waste time on unimportant aspects while...
by Frank DuPont
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Game Plan is the ultimate book for the thinking football fan.The book tackles the issue of decision making and strategy in the NFL from the viewpoint of a true contrarian. No NFL tradition is sacred in this look at why so many NFL teams have such a difficult time making good decisions. More...
by Gene Kraay
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
You won't see many of these players in an NFL uniform on a Sunday afternoon, but while you're sitting there with your friends and family watching the big game with a bowl of snacks in your lap, the men who played football for Army at West Point are holding up much bigger lines than what the pros are...
by National Alliance for Youth Sports
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Packed with drills and tips for training and game days
The fun and easy way to master the art of football coaching
Volunteering as a youth football coach can be a great experience, both for you and your squad. But what if you've never coached before, or want to improve? Don't worry!...
Game-Day Gangsters
Crime and Deviance in Canadian Football
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In the complicated interaction between sport and law, much is revealed about the perception and understanding of consent and tolerable deviance. When a football player steps onto the field, what deviations from the rules of the game are considered acceptable? And what risks has the player already...
Hooligan Wars
Causes and Effects of Football Violence
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
The good, the bad, the beautiful game: a mix that few can explain and yet whenever football hooliganism breaks out, the government, the football authorities, the police and journalists are all too ready to offer quick-fix solutions - solutions that rarely consider the underlying causes of the violence.
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Imagine That - Football
The History of Football Rewritten
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
International football’s most intriguing stories are the tales of what might have been, those seemingly insignificant incidents that would have had the largest unforeseen effects. Imagine That… Messi is unable to afford growth hormone treatment … and Spanish football loses its charitable nature...
The Missing Ring
How Bear Bryant and the 1966 Alabama Crimson Tide Were Denied College Football's Most Elusive Prize
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007
"Keith Dunnavant's triumph is that he takes us into the heart of Alabama, into the darkness and the light, and there we see Joe Namath, Kenny Stabler, Ray Perkins, and their band of brothers play football for Bear Bryant the way life should be lived, at full throttle, indomitably."
---Dave...
Penn State Football
The Complete Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2009
Every autumn, the town of State College in central Pennsylvania turns blue and white. Thousands of people from all over the state---indeed, from all over the nation---flock to Beaver Stadium to watch the Nittany Lions of Penn State University take on whatever foe is on the schedule. Since the 1880s,...
Asia and the Future of Football
The Role of the Asian Football Confederation
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Football is the most popular sport in the world. Globalisation and commercialisation of the game, however, have created new conflicts and challenges. This book explores the role of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) within the rising significance of football in Asia, drawing on three key theoretical...