Download or read book Gridiron Heroes written by Ellen M. Gall and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gridiron Greats written by Jennifer Rivkin and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From all-time greats such as Joe Montana and Jerry Rice to current superstars like Aaron Rodgers, readers will enjoying learning all about their favorite football players. Record-breaking stats, famous quotes, history-making plays, and more celebrate the best football stars on both the offensive and defensive ends of the field.
Download or read book Integrating the Gridiron written by Lane Demas and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even the most casual sports fans celebrate the achievements of professional athletes, among them Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Ali, and Joe Louis. Yet before and after these heroes staked a claim for African Americans in professional sports, dozens of college athletes asserted their own civil rights on the amateur playing field, and continue to do so today. Integrating the Gridiron, the first book devoted to exploring the racial politics of college athletics, examines the history of African Americans on predominantly white college football teams from the nineteenth century through today. Lane Demas compares the acceptance and treatment of black student athletes by presenting compelling stories of those who integrated teams nationwide, and illuminates race relations in a number of regions, including the South, Midwest, West Coast, and Northeast. Focused case studies examine the University of California, Los Angeles in the late 1930s; integrated football in the Midwest and the 1951 Johnny Bright incident; the southern response to black players and the 1955 integration of the Sugar Bowl; and black protest in college football and the 1969 University of Wyoming "Black 14." Each of these issues drew national media attention and transcended the world of sports, revealing how fans--and non-fans--used college football to shape their understanding of the larger civil rights movement.
Download or read book Navy Football written by Jack T. Clary and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heisman Trophy winners Joe Bellino and Roger Staubach and other Hall of Famers such as Dick Scott and Don Whitmire are just a few of Navy's football players whose illustrious careers on the gridiron earned their teams fame. In this history of the sport at the U.S. Naval Academy, noted sports journalist Jack Clary captures the excitement of their efforts along with the hundreds of other players who contributed to the legends of the game and its unique academy traditions. From 1879, the year of Navy's first game, through the banner years of the 1960s, to the resurgence of the sport's success in 1996, Clary chronicles more than eleven decades of the program. Football fans will delight in the almost play-by-play examination of the ten greatest Army-Navy games, beginning with the first game in 1890 and including the classic tie in 1926 that secured Navy's only national championship, and the three most exciting finishes ever in 1946, 1963, and 1989. Another important part of the book is the profiles of significant players (Jack Dalton, Slade Cutter, Bill Busik, Napoleon McCallum, and others) and outstanding coaches (Paul Dashiell, Bill Ingram, Swede Larson, Eddie Erdelatz, Wayne Hardin, George Welsh, and Charlie Weatherbie). The book also describes the wartime experiences of some of the players, including Medal of Honor recipients. Readers learn the origins of Navy's famed fight song "Anchors Aweigh", the academy's colors, and its mascot. Illustrated with more than two hundred photographs, this book will provide hours of enjoyment to everyone interested in football, the Navy, and midshipmen athletes.
Download or read book 100 Greatest Football Heroes written by Mac Davis and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief biographies of coaches, players, trailblazers, innovators, record setters--all football immortals.
Download or read book Inspirational FOOTBALL HEROES written by Anthony Ripley and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-12-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pro Football Heroes of Today written by Berry Stainback and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1973 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the lives of twenty-two champion football players including Joe Namath, Dick Butkus, Otis Taylor, and Larry Brown.
Download or read book Super Bowl Heroes written by Barry Wilner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immerse yourself in the greatest moments in football history. Barry Wilner and Ken Rappoport charge through every Super Bowl, covering the most intense moments in sports history. Revisit some of America’s classic and current football heroes, including: Bart Starr, Dave Robinson, Max McGee, Chuck Howley, Johnny Unitas, Jim O’Brien, Duane Thomas, “Mean” Joe Greene, Marcus Allen, Matt Millen, Phil Simms, David Tyree, Ray Lewis, Peyton Manning, and more.
Download or read book Gridiron Heroes written by Richard J. Brenner and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gridiron Heroes tells the exciting stories of six winners of the Heisman Trophy, the most celebrated award in college football. Included in this star-studded lineup are Sam Bradford, the No. 1 pick in the 2010 National Football League draft; Mark Ingram, the reigning Heisman winner; Tim Tebow, the first sophomore to win the award; Reggie Bush, the slashing running back of the Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints; Carson Palmer, the hard-throwing quarterback of the Cincinnati Bengals, and Charles Woodson, the 2009 NFL Defensive Player of the Year.
Download or read book America written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Jesuit review of faith and culture," Nov. 13, 2017-
Download or read book Purple Heroes Football Stories from the Gridiron to the Cross written by Craig Olsen and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2022-07-25 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a child growing up in Minnesota in the '70s, the purple warriors of the gridiron, like Fred Cox, Bobby Bryant, Milt Sunde, Jeff Siemon, Mark Mullaney, Ed White, and Paul Krause, were my "heroes." Imagine, nearly 50 years later, having the opportunity to talk to those heroes and many veterans of college and pro football. When I learned that many of my boyhood heroes were also men of faith, I felt called to ask them some questions. In Purple Heroes, you'll hear directly from those who played the game. Although they were successful professional athletes, they recognized the need for something more in their lives. More than fifty former NFL players contributed their thoughts, testimonies, and football stories to this book. "For they refreshed my spirit and yours. Such men deserve recognition. First Corinthians 16:18 NIV" "I trust this book will increase the brotherhood of faith! Having played football for twenty-seven years from age ten, I found that successful team, in most cases, developed a brotherhood with one another. When those brothers are also " brother in Christ", the bond is even stronger! Thank you to my Viking brothers!" - Bobby Bryant, MN Viking 1968- 1980, All Pro 1969 & 1975, Pro Bowl 1975 & 1976 "This life I was given was God's gift to me. But what I have done with this life, is my gift back to Him." - Anthony Bass, MN Vikings 1998-99, Pastor of Endurance Church, Brooklyn Park, MN Craig Olsen, a lifelong Viking fan, describes this book as a "calling." In the early 1970s, football card collecting planted the seeds for this book. Craig's early work experiences at Met Stadium and Met Center, where he earned "Employee of the Month" honors in 1984, fueled his love for sports. Although not gifted athletically, he took up endurance running, completing marathons like Boston, New York, Chicago, and the 2006 Wisconsin Ironman Triathlon. He has taught special education for over 30 years. Three pivotal events put Christ at the center of his life. First, he married Kelly in 2009. Second, God brought a son, Cristian, into their lives in 2011. Third, an invitation to a Bible study in 2017 led to a more profound understanding of the Word and a passion for ministry. Writing Purple Heroes inspired Craig to start a Youtube channel called Faith-Football-Forever.
Download or read book Dreaming of Heroes written by Michael Grady and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Cyril Letzelter's family moved to the small Ohio mill community of Martins Ferry, just across the Ohio River from Wheeling, West Virginia, they figured out quickly the city had a love for football bordering on obsessive. And it's not hard to understand why. Success in football and the path it offered out of the coal mines and steel mills to the promise of higher education and opportunity was the stuff of dreams.He emerged as one of the Ohio Valley's most prominent stars when the sport was exploding into the public consciousness like never before. The 1920s are rightly considered the golden age of college football, and his path out of the valley into the national elite offers a unique window into the evolution of the game and the changes in the nation that occurred between Reconstruction and post-WWI America. Long forgotten over the years, Cyril starred in some of the biggest games of the era. His talent was recruited by major teams from Stanford on the west coast to Army in the East. His playmaking ability was feared by giants of the game like Knute Rockne. And in the end, his sometimes rocky path out of the Ohio Valley mill towns to a better life involved taking risks to get ahead and sometimes being manipulated by stronger forces beyond his reach. This is a story of America and college football, as seen through the eyes of a forgotten star, Cyril Letzelter, who deserves to be remembered again.
Download or read book The Californian written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Remington Registry of Outstanding Professionals written by Remington Registry and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 1168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Imperial Gridiron written by Matthew Bentley and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Imperial Gridiron examines the competing versions of manhood at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School between 1879 and 1918. Students often arrived at Carlisle already engrained with Indigenous ideals of masculinity. On many occasions these ideals would come into conflict with the models of manhood created by the school's original superintendent, Richard Henry Pratt. Pratt believed that Native Americans required the "embrace of civilization," and he emphasized the qualities of self-control, Christian ethics, and retaliatory masculinity. He encouraged sportsmanship and fair play over victory. Pratt's successors, however, adopted a different approach, and victory was enshrined as the main objective of Carlisle sports. As major stars like Jim Thorpe and Lewis Tewanima came to the fore, this change in approach created a conflict over manhood within the school: should the competitive athletic model be promoted, or should Carlisle focus on the more self-controlled, Christian ideal as promoted by the school's Young Men's Christian Association? The answer came from the 1914 congressional investigation of Carlisle. After this grueling investigation, Carlisle's model of manhood starkly reverted to the form of the Pratt years, and by the time the school closed in 1918, the school's standards of masculinity had come full circle.
Download or read book Pass Receiving in Early Pro Football written by Jerry Roberts and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big television contracts in the 1960s created the Super Bowl, as well as the 1970 merger of the National Football League with the pass-oriented American Football League. Since then, professional football has been America's most popular televised team sport, developing into a wide-open passing game by the 21st century. Handling the completion side of the aerial game, receivers are not often as celebrated as quarterbacks or coaches, even in the era of San Francisco 49er Jerry Rice's supremacy. This book provides a history of pro pass receiving and its influence on the game prior to the televised era. The author studies pro football's formative and mid-20th century years, highlighting the players who pulled pigskins from flight, like the legendary Don Hutson, Gibby Welch, Johnny Blood, Ray Flaherty, Crazy Legs Hirsch, Mac Speedie, Choo Choo Roberts and many others.
Download or read book Gridiron Hero written by Mike Boushell and published by . This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gridiron Hero are novels centering on high-school athletes.
