Download or read book Buck Shaw written by Kevin Carroll and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-03-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blocking for the Gipper, Lawrence "Buck" Shaw was one of Knute Rockne's star players at Notre Dame during 1919 through 1921. However, it was his nearly four decades of college and pro coaching that earned him esteem. Viewed as a "player's coach," Shaw was talented at relating to young men and molding them into a winning team. His college teams won two Sugar bowls. Shaw's successful coaching with the San Francisco 49ers and Philadelphia Eagles also played an integral role in helping the NFL grow into a billion-dollar business. A contemporary of Vince Lombardi, Shaw's Eagles won the NFL championship in the pre-Super Bowl era. A member of the College Football Hall of Fame, Shaw never received serious consideration for enshrinement at Canton for his professional career. This complete biography tells the colorful story of Shaw's college and pro years, shedding light on Shaw's over-looked achievements in the professional ranks, which saw him earn a higher winning percentage a half-dozen Hall of Fame coaches.

Download or read book The Sandra Sanchez Story written by Larry Spiry and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A baby girl was found abandoned in the Highlands of New Mexico with no signs of her biological parents. They were never found. A young childless couple adopts the baby girl and she is raised as their own. She becomes a superstar soccer player for a university in California. In 2032, her third year at that school, she becomes extremely ill with what appears to be a rare disease that cannot be identified. She is dying, as a cure cannot be found. Then through a series of strange events, it is determined that her life may be saved, but at an unbearable price to pay. This is her story.

Download or read book They Cleared the Lane written by Ron Thomas and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, black players compose more than eighty percent of the National Basketball Association?s rosters, providing a strong and valued contribution to professional basketball. In the first half of the twentieth century, however, pro basketball was taintedøby racism, as gifted African Americans were denied the opportunity to display their talents. ø Through in-depth interviews with players, their families, coaches, teammates, and league officials, Ron Thomas tells the largely untold story of what basketball was really like for the first black NBA players, including recent Hall of Fame inductee Earl Lloyd, early superstars such as Maurice Stokes and Bill Russell, and the league?s first black coaches. They Cleared the Lane is both informative and entertaining, full of anecdotes and little-known history. Not all the stories have happy endings, but this unfortunate truth only emphasizes how much we have gained from the accomplishments of these pioneer athletes.

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Download or read book Who s 1 written by Christopher J. Walsh and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2007-09-27 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s nothing quite as controversial in American sports as college football’s national championship, making it common fodder for talk around the water cooler as well as loftier debates among professional journalists in the sports pages. Walsh takes a comprehensive view of over a century of controversy, breaking teams down into one of three categories: perennial powers, contenders, and former greats. He then reviews the ten most controversial championships, suggests candidates for the best overall football program, and concludes with some thoughts on the future of the BCS. A comprehensive appendix lists national champions since 1869; AP and USA Today/UPI final polls; final BCS standings; first-team All-Americans; and College Football Hall of Fame inductees.

Download or read book New Mexico Basketball 2001 02 Yearbook written by Sports Publishing Inc and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Dream Endures written by Kevin Starr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-28 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What we now call "the good life" first appeared in California during the 1930s. Motels, home trailers, drive-ins, barbecues, beach life and surfing, sports from polo and tennis and golf to mountain climbing and skiing, "sportswear" (a word coined at the time), and sun suits were all a part of the good life--perhaps California's most distinctive influence of the 1930s. In The Dream Endures, Kevin Starr shows how the good life prospered in California--in pursuits such as film, fiction, leisure, and architecture--and helped to define American culture and society then and for years to come. Starr previously chronicled how Californians absorbed the thousand natural shocks of the Great Depression--unemployment, strikes, Communist agitation, reactionary conspiracies--in Endangered Dreams, the fourth volume of his classic history of California. In The Dream Endures, Starr reveals the other side of the picture, examining the newly important places where the good life flourished, like Los Angeles (where Hollywood lived), Palm Springs (where Hollywood vacationed), San Diego (where the Navy went), the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena (where Einstein went and changed his view of the universe), and college towns like Berkeley. We read about the rich urban life of San Francisco and Los Angeles, and in newly important communities like Carmel and San Simeon, the home of William Randolph Hearst, where, each Thursday afternoon, automobiles packed with Hollywood celebrities would arrive from Southern California for the long weekend at Hearst Castle. The 1930s were the heyday of the Hollywood studios, and Starr brilliantly captures Hollywood films and the society that surrounded the studios. Starr offers an astute discussion of the European refugees who arrived in Hollywood during the period: prominent European film actors and artists and the creative refugees who were drawn to Hollywood and Southern California in these years--Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, Man Ray, Bertolt Brecht, Christopher Isherwood, Aldous Huxley, Thomas Mann, and Franz Werfel. Starr gives a fascinating account of how many of them attempted to recreate their European world in California and how others, like Samuel Goldwyn, provided stories and dreams for their adopted nation. Starr reserves his greatest attention and most memorable writing for San Francisco. For Starr, despite the city's beauty and commercial importance, San Francisco's most important achievement was the sense of well-being it conferred on its citizens. It was a city that "magically belonged to everyone." Whether discussing photographers like Edward Weston and Ansel Adams, "hard-boiled fiction" writers, or the new breed of female star--Marlene Dietrich, Jean Harlow, Bette Davis, Carole Lombard, and the improbable Mae West--The Dream Endures is a brilliant social and cultural history--in many ways the most far-reaching and important of Starr's California books.

Download or read book I Didn t Know That Almanac written by Cool Springs Press and published by . This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I Didn't Know That Almanac California Edition 2007" will appeal to readers of "The Old Farmer's Almanac," but this book is all about California! Chapters include: Weather Diverse weather from mountain snow to desert heat. Travel Full of interesting places to visit in California, great places to eat, quirky hotels, and stories of the past means of travel. Business Full of well known, and not so well known, California entrepreneurs. Cooking California recipes will delight everyone! Sports Stories about some of the greatest California sports figures of all time. Culture Interesting anecdotes that only California can provide!

Download or read book The Game Changer written by Philip Pallette and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-03-11 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hank, the nimble; Hank, the quick; Hank, the human corkscrew; Hank, as fast as light; Hank, the rubber-boned man, wrote Roy Cummings after seeing a 19-year-old Hank Luisetti perform for the first time in 1936. Cummings sat alone in a deserted gym trying to describe to his readers what he had just witnessed on the basketball court. Luisetti, who learned the game to a background chorus of fog horns and gulls on San Francisco Bay, would later that year introduce New Yorks basketball legions to the jump shot. Now Philip Pallette has created a riveting account of the basketball life of this eminently shy and decent young man who transformed Stanford basketball from a group of fun-loving dabblers into national champions. The Game Changer is a book that rediscovers the long-forgotten adulation basketball fans felt for Luisetti by tracing his journey from boyhood on to becoming basketballs first matinee idol and the man who changed basketball forever.

Download or read book Irish San Francisco written by John Garvey and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Irish have always been an important part of San Francisco. An 1852 census showed that almost nine percent of the city of 36,000 hailed from Ireland; by 1900, nearly a quarter of the population had come here from the Emerald Isle. Today a walk through any part of the city will showcase influential Irish street names such as Downey, Fell, Kearney, O'Farrell, O'Shaughnessy, and McAllister. Churches such as St. Brigid's and St. Patrick's still are supported by many of the faithful, while landmark buildings such as the Fairmont, Phelan, and Flood stand sentinel over the city's bustling downtown. Many businesspeople handle their finances through the successors of the original Hibernia Bank, established here by Irish immigrants in 1859. And after work, many folks like to relax with a pint at pubs such as Kate O'Brien's, Abbey Tavern, or the Little Shamrock.

Download or read book Spalding s Official Basketball Guide Containing the Official Rules written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues for 1916/1917, 1924/1925, 1934/1935, 1937/1938-1939/1940 include rules as adopted by the National Basket ball committee of the United States and Canada (1916/1917, 1924/1925 under its earlier names: Joint Rules Committee, Joint Basketball Rules Committee).

Download or read book The Official Football Guide written by National Collegiate Athletic Association and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early volumes consisted of rules with a separate publication for text. Later volumes consist of text and rules.

Download or read book Foot ball Rules Authorized and Adopted by the American Intercollegiate Association written by National Collegiate Athletic Association and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early volumes consisted of rules with a separate publication for text. Later volumes consist of text and rules, (at first, the official rules, later the "read-easy" rules.) Vols. for 1976-78 do not include rules.

Download or read book Asians and Pacific Islanders in American Football written by Joel S. Franks and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sheds light on experiences relatively underrepresented in academic and non-academic sport history. It examines how Asian and Pacific Islander peoples used American football to maintain a sense of community while encountering racial exclusion, labor exploitation, and colonialism. Through their participation and spectatorship in American football, Asian and Pacific Islander people crossed treacherous cultural frontiers to construct what sociologist Elijah Anderson has called a cosmopolitan canopy under which Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, and people of diverse racial and ethnic identities interacted with at least a semblance of respect and equity. And perhaps a surprising number of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have excelled in college and even professional football before the 1960s. Finally, acknowledging the impressive influx of elite Pacific Islander gridders who surfaced in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, it is vital to note as well the racialized nativism shadowing the lives of these athletes.

Download or read book What s Your Sports IQ written by Bill Jeakle and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A crash course--including quizzes, fun facts and helpful catch-phrases--in everything required to pass as a Literate Sports Fan. Covering team and individual sports, this helpful volume reveals that golf is televised to allow Cadillac to reach its target audience, the agent is the most important player in baseball, and more. Photographs and line drawings throughout.

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