Football category: 4223 books
No Excuses
One Man's Incredible Rise Through the NFL to Head Coach of Notre Dame
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Weis was taught football by some of the best minds in the game: Bill Parcells and Bill Belichick. Parcells would give him a life-defining break in 1990 by hiring him as an assistant on the New York Giants staff. For a Jersey guy who loved sports, this was a dream come true, especially when Weis won...
Johnny U
The Life and Times of John Unitas
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
In a time “when men played football for something less than a living and something more than money,” John Unitas was the ultimate quarterback. Rejected by Notre Dame, discarded by the Pittsburgh Steelers, he started on a Pennsylvania sandlot making six dollars a game and ended as the most commanding...
Perfection
The Inside Story of the 1972 Miami Dolphins' Perfect Season
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
The inside story of the only undefeated team in NFL history, the 1972 Miami Dolphins?by the Hall of Fame quarterback who led it to victory
Hall of Fame quarterback and long-time ABC college football announcer Bob Griese is a living football legend. Now, on the 40th anniversary of the 1972 Miami...
by Stephen Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Sean Fallon is one of British football's great untold stories. For the first time, the Celtic legend speaks candidly about his time as right-hand man to Jock Stein and how together they ruled Scottish football and conquered Europe with the Lisbon Lions. We learn how the Irishman shaped Celtic's glory...
Steak Diana Ross II
Further Diaries of a Football Nobody
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
The sequel to David McVay's highly-acclaimed Steak Diana Ross: Diary of a Football Nobody, has been delivered with all the alacrity of the author's prodigious goalscoring acumen: one every 14 years or so. Titled as creatively as his midfield passes, Steak Diana Ross II: Further diaries of a Football...
101 Interesting Facts on Southend United
Learn About the Boys From Roots Hall
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Is Southend United your local football club? Are you a lifelong fan of the Blues or new to the touchline? Do you know all about the team’s long and fascinating past, which began in the Blue Boar pub in 1906? Would you like to find out more? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you are certain...
Bowden
How Bobby Bowden Forged a Football Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Bowden is the definitive biography of one of the greatest college football coaches of all time, Bobby Bowden, and the first family of football. Journalist Mike Freeman provides an in-depth and insightful look inside the life and mind of the iconic Florida State University coach and family man. Sweeping...
Collision Low Crossers
A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL Football
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
An unrivaled portrait of day-to-day life in the NFL: "Riveting...An instant classic." -- New York Times Book Review
By spending a year with the New York Jets, Nicholas Dawidoff entered a mysterious and private world with its own rituals and language. Equal parts Paper Lion, Moneyball,...
Italian Academy Training Sessions for U11-14
A Complete Soccer Coaching Program from the Italian Serie ‘A’
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Soccer Italian Style coaches Mirko Mazzantini (AFC Fiorentina) and Simone Bombardieri (Empoli FC) are both professional football coaches and in this book provide a full soccer training program from their top Italian Serie 'A' academies. This book contains 12 complete soccer training sessions detailing...
Native American Son
The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
The first comprehensive biography of the legendary figure who defined excellence in American sports: Jim Thorpe, arguably the greatest all-around athlete the United States has ever seen.
With clarity and a fine eye for detail, Kate Buford traces the pivotal moments of Thorpe’s incomparable...
Go Huskies!
Celebrating the Washington Football Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This comprehensive history of the University of Washington football program focuses on the major eras in Husky football history, featuring the best teams, the greatest games, the biggest comebacks, and the most exciting and unexpected moments, such as when Washington forged its first national championship...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
The University of Nebraska went 3-3 and 4-6 in the 1956 football season. Pete Elliott coached the team for only one year. He accepted the University of California head coach position in January 1957. Elliott was an innovator. As offensive backfield coach at the University of Oklahoma, he taught the...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
The National Football League expanded in 1960 and 1961, adding two teams that would be an incremental part of the NFL in years to come. The Dallas Cowboys came first followed by the Minnesota Vikings who began their first season in September 1961. There were some differences in the expansions as they...
by Nick Holt
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
An all-encompassing, chronological guide to football's World Cup, one of the world's few truly international events, in good time for the June 2018 kick-off in Russia. From its beginnings in 1930 to the modern all-singing, all-dancing self-styled 'greatest show on Earth', every tournament is covered...