Football category: 4223 books
How to Speak Football
From Ankle Breaker to Zebra: An Illustrated Guide to Gridiron Gab
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
From "ankle breaker” to “zebra,” How to Speak Football includes over 125 football terms paired with amusing illustrations that decode the words and phrases that fly around the field. The “Sidelines” sections sprinkled throughout the book will teach you fun trivia about the history of...
The Republic of Football
Legends of the Texas High School Game
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Anywhere football is played, Texas is the force to reckon with. Its powerhouse programs produce the best football players in America. In The Republic of Football, Chad S. Conine vividly captures Texas’s impact on the game with action-filled stories about legendary high school players, coaches, and...
Stagg vs. Yost
The Birth of Cutthroat Football
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Corruption, scandals, and reports of wrongdoing in college football are constantly in the news. From Penn State’s Joe Paterno to Ohio State’s Jim Tressel, we have come to learn that some of the most lauded coaches don’t always live up to their saintly reputations. Perhaps no era of college football...
My Greatest Day in Football
The Legends of Football Recount Their Greatest Moments
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
As he did for his previous books, My Greatest Day in NASCAR and My Greatest Day in Golf, sports journalist Bob McCullough has crisscrossed the country interviewing legendary football players who are in the Hall of Fame. In addition to asking about their greatest day, McCullough has expanded these...
Total Football - A graphic history of the world's most iconic soccer tactics
The evolution of football formations and plays
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
The striking evolution of the world’s most iconic football tactics:
How they work, why they win – and the people that made them iconic.
In the early days of football, it was simple: a goalkeeper, two defenders and the rest attacked. Now the game is all about strategy.
Innovative graphics...
by Allen Barra
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2006
The explosive biography of the greatest college football coach in history.
When Paul William "Bear" Bryant died on January 26, 1983, it was the lead story on the all three networks' evening news. New York City newspapers reported his death on their front pages. Three days later, America...
America's Football Factory
Western Pennsylvania's Cradle of Quarterbacks from Johnny Unitas to Joe Montana
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
A small area of western Pennsylvania around Pittsburgh has produced almost 25 percent of the modern era quarter- backs enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. That percentage is wildly disproportionate to the number of superstar quarterbacks any one state might claim, let alone a mere sliver of...
by HowExpert
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
We hear the reports and see the video all too often: youth coaches and officials assaulted, fights breaking out at youth sporting events, and parents and coaches losing control over what should be a child’s game. It doesn’t have to be that way. What we don’t see are the thousands of youth football...
Tropic of Football
The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Moneyball, Soccernomics and the Sports Gene have become hugely successful by trying to unravel and explain sporting excellence. The Tropic of Football joins these books by taking an in-depth social and cultural look at the Samoan sporting cultures as found in the Samoan islands, Hawaii and California.
There...
Football Fanatic
A Record Breaking Journey Through English Football
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This is the book which landed the author in the Guinness Book of Records for his record-breaking 20,000-mile tour of every Football League Ground in England.
The first edition was hugely successful and was listed by Sportspages Bookshop as one of the bestselling football books of the year.
This...
by Malcolm Walker
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Association Football has for many decades been more than a game, it’s culture has now spread across all continents of the globe to become a multi-billion dollar business which is followed by a significant proportion of the world’s population. It is arguably the most significant human phenomenon...
by Patrick Garbin
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2010
On January 30, 1892, on a field adjacent a small university’s quadrangle, just behind its New College, a mascot-the university goat-was paraded before approximately 1,500 spectators. The goat was followed by students rooting Rah, rah, rah, ta Georgia!” for the school’s newly established athletic...
by Coach O'Neill
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Welcome to TQFC…The Quintessential Football Coach Coach ONeills TQFC is a one-stop guide, handbook and manual for coaching football, covering every area of the game you love. Whether you are a coach, a parent or a player, TQFC will provide you with the tools and know-how to get the most out of...
by Scott Britton
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Are you a high school athlete with dreams of gaining admission to an Ivy League school? Are you feeling the pressure of the college application process and finding yourself lost in all the jargon like "highlight tape", "combines" and "exploding offers"? Don't panic, we've got you covered....