Download or read book Beyond the Gridiron a Look Into the Academic Preparation of Urban High School Football Players written by Dr. Marco Walder and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond the Gridiron written by Walder Dr. Marco (author) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond the Gridiron written by Marco Walder and published by We O.W.N. This book was released on 2018-06 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was a need to more thoroughly evaluate the academic preparation of urban high school football recruits prior to the senior year and before entering college. Dr. Marco Walder presents to the world valuable information and research with the intent to provide understanding and insight into strategies that are needed and currently being used to increase the college academic preparation of urban high school student athletes. As a former NCAA student athlete Dr. Marco Walder shares his experiences, research, passion, and purpose in this phenomenal book as he strives to be a voice for the change needed to ensure student athletes all over are being prepared on all educational levels to be successful academically and athletically.
Download or read book Beyond the Gridiron written by Travis B. Key and published by Tate Publishing & Enterprises. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a student-athlete in deep pursuit of the goal of playing at the collegiate level? Are you a parent guiding your son down the path to become a man and wanting athletics to play a role in that journey? Beyond the Gridiron will show you what it takes to become a complete student-athlete at the collegiate level. Beyond the Gridiron uniquely combines what to expect athletically and academically on your collegiate football journey. It will equip incoming student-athletes with the tools to overcome mental and physical challenges of collegiate football while speaking to the importance of academics and utilizing all the resources that you have around you on campus. Beyond the Gridiron will transform your mind as well as challenge you to look beyond the scope of football for success. First-hand accounts of Division I student-athletes and personal interviews straight from the NFL provide an exclusive look into the whole athletic journey. Learning how to overcome adversity and be accountable for your own actions are decisions you will face throughout your collegiate experience, and Beyond the Gridiron will offer insight to prepare you for success. This book teaches valuable life lessons, and most importantly, will transfer to your day-to-day regimen of becoming a responsible adult.
Download or read book The Rise of Gridiron University written by Brian M. Ingrassia and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2015-12-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quarterback sends his wide receiver deep. The crowd gasps as he launches the ball. And when he hits his man, the team's fans roar with approval-especially those with the deep pockets. Make no mistake; college football is big business, played with one eye on the score, the other on the bottom line. But was this always the case? Brian M. Ingrassia here offers the most incisive account to date of the origins of college football, tracing the sport's evolution from a gentlemen's pastime to a multi-million dollar enterprise that made athletics a permanent fixture on our nation's campuses and cemented college football's place in American culture. He takes readers back to the late 1800s to tell how schools embraced the sport as a way to get the public interested in higher learning-and then how football's immediate popularity overwhelmed campuses and helped create the beast we know today. Contrary to conventional wisdom, Ingrassia proves that the academy did not initially resist the inclusion of athletics; rather, progressive reformers and professors embraced football as a way to make the ivory tower less elitist. With its emphasis on disciplined teamwork and spectatorship, football was seen as a "middlebrow" way to make the university more accessible to the general public. What it really did was make athletics a permanent fixture on campus with its own set of professional experts, bureaucracies, and ostentatious cathedrals. Ingrassia examines the early football programs at universities like Michigan, Stanford, Ohio State, and others, then puts those histories in the context of Progressive Era culture, including insights from coaches like Georgia Tech's John Heisman and Notre Dame's Knute Rockne. He describes how reforms emerged out of incidents such as Teddy Roosevelt's son being injured on the field and a section of grandstands collapsing at the University of Chicago. He also touches on some of the problems facing current day college football and shows us that we haven't come far from those initial arguments more than a century ago. The Rise of Gridiron University shows us where and how it all began, highlighting college football's essential role in shaping the modern university-and by extension American intellectual culture. It should have wide appeal among students of American studies and sports history, as well as fans of college football curious to learn how their game became a cultural force in a matter of a few decades.
Download or read book The Gridiron Games written by Keith Lemon and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tank, a recently retired NFL Star, has tremendous love for the game of football. After his life is ripped from him in an abrupt circumstance, Tank is given opportunity to play on the Gridiron once again. However, this time Tank is merely a slave who mines gold for E.T.s and his only escape is an Ultimate Play! Tank must dig deep in his soul to find a way to help his team win the Ultimate Prize, victory at the Gridiron Bowl!
Download or read book Collier s written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Collier s written by and published by . This book was released on 1946-10 with total page 1324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Football and the American Way of War written by Daniel Sukman and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Gridiron Capital written by Lisa Uperesa and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1970s, a “Polynesian Pipeline” has brought football players from American Sāmoa to Hawaii and the mainland United States to play at the collegiate and professional levels. In Gridiron Capital Lisa Uperesa charts the cultural and social dynamics that have made football so central to Samoan communities. For Samoan athletes, football is not just an opportunity for upward mobility; it is a way to contribute to, support, and represent their family, village, and nation. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, archival research, and media analysis, Uperesa shows how the Samoan ascendancy in football is underpinned by the legacies of US empire and a set of imperial formations that mark Indigenous Pacific peoples as racialized subjects of US economic aid and development. Samoan players succeed by becoming entrepreneurs: building and commodifying their bodies and brands to enhance their football stock and market value. Uperesa offers insights into the social and physical costs of pursuing a football career, the structures that compel Pacific Islander youth toward athletic labor, and the possibilities for safeguarding their health and wellbeing in the future. Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient
Download or read book Striking Gridiron written by Greg Nichols and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the midst of a strike and economic uncertainty, a football team from an iconic steel town just outside Pittsburgh set out to capture its sixth straight season without a loss, uniting a region and inspiring the nation. In the summer of 1959, most of the town of Braddock, Pennsylvania--along with half a million steel workers around the country--went on strike in the longest labor stoppage in American history. With no paychecks coming in, the families of Braddock looked to its football team for inspiration. The Braddock Tigers had played for five amazing seasons, a total of 45 games, without a single loss. Heading into the fall of ‘59, this team from just outside Pittsburgh, whose games members of the Steelers would drop by to watch, needed just eight victories to break the national record for consecutive wins. Sports Illustrated and other media descended upon the banks of the Monongahela River to profile the team and its revered head coach, future Hall of Famer Chuck Klausing, who molded his boys into winners while helping to effect the racial integration of his squad. While the townspeople bet their last dollars on the Tigers, young black players like Ray Henderson hoped that the record would be a ticket to college and spare them from life in the mills alongside their fathers. In Striking Gridiron, author Greg Nichols recounts every detail of Braddock's incredible sixth, undefeated season--from the brutal weeks of summer training camp to the season's final play that defined the team's legacy. In the words of Klausing himself, "Greg Nichols couldn't have written it better if he'd been on the sidelines with us." But even more than the story of a triumphant season, Nichols's narrative is an intimate chronicle of small-town America during the hardest of times. Striking Gridiron takes us from the sidelines and stands on game day into the school hallways, onto the street corners, and into the very homes of Braddock to reveal a beleaguered blue-collar town from a bygone era--and the striking workers whose strength was mirrored by the football heroics of steel-town boys on Friday nights and Saturday afternoons.
Download or read book Legendary Locals of Harrisburg written by Todd M. Mealy and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With images taken from the archives of the Dauphin County Historical Society, as well as family collections, Legendary Locals of Harrisburg encompasses biographical tributes that celebrate the deeds of actors, musicians, artists, teachers, athletes, humanitarians, politicians, veterans, firemen, and community leaders who have added a peculiar brand of Harrisburgs rich cultural tapestry. William Howard Day, an educator, and John Harris, who established Harrisburg, are two pioneers. Edward Stackpole, of Stackpole Books, and Theophilus Fenn, editor of the Telegraph, have forged the way for the citys writers. The first secretary of homeland security, Tom Ridge, and Simon Cameron, secretary of war under Lincoln, are among world-renowned politicians who have contributed to Harrisburgs valued reputation. From rival high school football coaches to dueling business owners, from civic leaders building an integrated city to aspiring young people embarking on independent journeys to the big screen, these profiles of real lives and real heroes show us that we all have contributed to the development of our own communities.
