Download or read book Tiger Legacy written by Gary Harwood and published by . This book was released on 2016-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tiger Legacy examines the tremendous popularity of high school football in Massillon, Ohio through photographs and essays featuring all involved.
Download or read book The Massillon Tigers written by David Lee Morgan, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After playing 4 quarters of hard-fought football games, the Massillon Tiger football team gathered in a circle at the center of every football field they played on in 2019 to do 15 pushups--a pushup for every game it would take to lead them to the State Championship game. The mantra for the season became: 15 for 15. Each pushup is represented as a chapter in this book and a different piece of the puzzle that explains the football town of Massillon, Ohio. In this dramatic and entertaining book, Author and Tiger running back coach, David Lee Morgan, Jr. shares stories that offer a unique and unequaled perspective into the 2019 season and the Tigers' quest for that elusive state championship. The Massillon Tiger football program isn't a typical high school football program. It's a ministry of football with the first season dating back to 1894. The Massillon Tigers: 15 for 15 is the powerful tale of one of the most storied high school football programs anywhere in the country and their magical 2019 season, as told by an award-winning author and journalist who enjoyed unlimited access to the players, coaches, and families through his role as the running backs coach.
Download or read book Zion Unmatched written by Zion Clark and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary, deeply inspirational photo essay follows elite wheelchair racer and wrestler and Netflix documentary star Zion Clark. This stunning photographic essay showcases Zion Clark’s ferocious athleticism and undaunted spirit. Cowritten by New York Times best-selling journalist James S. Hirsch, this book features striking, visually arresting images and an approachable and engaging text, including pieces of advice that have motivated Zion toward excellence and passages from Zion himself. Explore Zion’s journey from a childhood lost in the foster care system to his hard-fought rise as a high school wrestler to his current rigorous training to prepare as an elite athlete on the world stage. Included are a biography and a note from Zion. This first in a trilogy of books to be written by world-class athlete Zion Clark.
Download or read book That s Why I m Here written by Chris Spielman and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chris Spielman, an Ohio State football legend and a four-time NFL Pro Bowl linebacker, didn't tackle his toughest opponent until his playing career was almost over. In 1998, Spielman's wife, Stefanie, was diagnosed with breast cancer, launching an eleven-year journey that brought joy and suffering to the Spielmans and hope and inspiration to thousands of others. In That's Why I'm Here, Spielman traces his storied career, recalls his courtship with Stephanie, cherishes the growth of their four children, and invokes the deep, spiritual faith that gave their family wisdom and comfort in times of struggle. Though Stefanie passed away on November 19, 2009, her memory and inspiration live on. With laughter and tears, joy and heartbreak, That's Why I'm Here will show you the healing power of: What it truly means to love your spouse in sickness and in health The importance of honoring the caregivers in our communities Facing the unknown with grace, strength, and hope Praise for That's Why I'm Here: "Consider this book a guide for selfless giving. Many aspire to live in such fashion, but few demonstrate it so openly and naturally in day-to-day living as Chris and Stefanie did . . . Knowing Stefanie and Chris has enriched my life. For me, just to be in their presence and to see how they conducted themselves gives me hope and inspiration whenever I encounter the adversity and uncertainty of life and come face-to-face with my own demons." --Charles L. Shapiro, MD, Mount Sinai
Download or read book Massillon Against the World written by Scott Ryan and published by . This book was released on 2024-03-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a fifty-three year drought, the 2023 Massillon Tigers finally won a State Championship on the field. The storied high school football program won 24 State Titles from 1909-1970, and then nothing. They made it to the State game six times and lost each time to a private school. Many wondered if a public school from a small town like Massillon, Ohio could win it? But no one in Tiger Town doubted it. A town of 30,000 people filled the Pro Football Hall of Fame Stadium with an announced attendance of nearly 15,000.Author Scott Ryan (Last Days of Letterman, Moonlighting: an Oral History) and educator Becca Moore (Massillon City Schools, Track Coach) interviews all the coaches in this oral history of a season that started with drama that could have ended everything before it began. They take readers through the big games of three #1 teams in a row, all beaten by the Tigers. The annual Massillon-McKinley game is covered, plus the exciting state championship game that was won with only one touchdown. This is an in depth look at how the coaching staff under the guidance of Nate Moore won a state title in Ohio ... finally.
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 Rivals written by David K. Wiggins and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixteen original essays in this collection cover influential and famous rivalries from a variety of sports, including track and field, golf, boxing, basketball, tennis, ice skating, baseball, football, soccer, and more. The essays are diverse, but together they illustrate what is common to any rivalry: equally matched opponents that often have decidedly different backgrounds, styles, and personalities. These differences may center on race and culture, political and societal ideologies, personality, geography, or religion—a mix intensified by fans and the media. From highly publicized and emotionally charged individual competitions to bitterly fought team contests, Rivals illuminates what one-of-a-kind opponents and the passion they inspire tell us about ourselves and our society.
Download or read book THIRTYSOMETHING AT 30 written by Scott Ryan and published by BearManor Media. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Babyboomers in their thirties never possessed a collective voice until thirtysomething (1987-1991), a thirteen-time Emmy Award-winning series, captured the essence of their angst. Author Scott Ryan now gives the cast and crew their voice on the making of all 85 episodes.
Download or read book Paul Brown written by George Cantor and published by Triumph Books (IL). This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The man who invented modern football.
Download or read book NFL Century written by Joe Horrigan and published by Crown. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the former executive director of the Pro Football Hall of Fame comes a sweeping and lively history of the National Football League, timed to coincide with the NFL’s 100th anniversary season. “I can think of no one better qualified—or more enthusiastic—to chronicle the National Football League’s century-long history than Joe Horrigan.”—Marv Levy, Hall of Fame NFL coach The NFL has come a long way from its founding in Canton, Ohio, in 1920. In the hundred years since that fateful day, football has become America’s most popular and lucrative professional sport. The former scrappy upstart league that struggled to stay afloat has survived a host of challenges—the Great Depression and World War II, controversies and scandals, battles over labor rights and competition from rival leagues—to produce American icons like Vince Lombardi, Joe Montana, and Tom Brady. It is an extraordinary and entertaining history that could be told only by Joe Horrigan, former executive director of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and perhaps the greatest living historian of the NFL, by drawing upon decades of NFL archives. Compelling, eye-opening, and authoritative, NFL Century is a must-read for NFL fans and anyone who loves the game of football. Advance praise for NFL Century “Joe Horrigan takes the reader on a delightful tour of the seminal moments of the NFL in the past one hundred years—the players, owners, coaches, executives, and historical events that made the game of football the most popular in America. It’s a wonderful walk down memory lane for any football fan, young or old.”—Michael Lombardi, author of Gridiron Genius “There is no one—and I mean no one—who knows more about the history of the NFL than Joe Horrigan, the heart and soul of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. As the gold standard of sports leagues celebrates its one hundredth season, it’s appropriate that the gold standard of sports historians has written NFL Century, an entertaining and educational journey.”—Gary Myers, New York Times bestselling author of Brady vs Manning
Download or read book I Remember Bo written by George Cantor and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is your chance to go inside the huddle of the Michigan Wolverines, into their locker room and onto the sidelines, your chance to join your favorite players on the team plane, and at the team hotel. Go behind the scenes and peek into the private world of the players, coaches and decision makers, eavesdropping on their personal conversations. You'll read about the real reason why Bo turned down the megabucks offer from Texas A & M and remained at Michigan in 1982, and the origin of his famous battle cry to his team every time it left a hotel for the game:?Do I have 11? All I need is 11!
Download or read book NFL Football written by Richard C. Crepeau and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new NFL Centennial Edition A multi-billion-dollar entertainment empire, the National Football League is a coast-to-coast obsession that borders on religion and dominates our sports-mad culture. But today's NFL also provides a stage for playing out important issues roiling American society. The updated and expanded edition of NFL Football observes the league's centennial by following the NFL into the twenty-first century, where off-the-field concerns compete with touchdowns and goal line stands for headlines. Richard Crepeau delves into the history of the league and breaks down the new era with an in-depth look at the controversies and dramas swirling around pro football today: Tensions between players and Commissioner Roger Goodell over collusion, drug policies, and revenue; The firestorm surrounding Colin Kaepernick and protests of police violence and inequality; Andrew Luck and others choosing early retirement over the threat to their long-term health; Paul Tagliabue's role in covering up information on concussions; The Super Bowl's evolution into a national holiday. Authoritative and up to the minute, NFL Football continues the epic American success story.
Download or read book Volume 2 Jack Eddy Stories written by Dick Stodghill and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second eight stories featuring private detective Jack Eddy in a series set in Akron, Ohio, circa 1938. The stories first published in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine are: A Policy for Murder, Death on the Devil Strip, Nightmare on North Hill, The Phantom of Johnnycake Lock, Mayhem on Market Street, Switchback, The Survivor of the Storms, Panic on Portage Path.
Download or read book The Tiniest Tiger written by Joanne L. McGonagle and published by Booksurge Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lively, colorful, and fun, this educational reader shares an important message for animal lovers and children of all ages about the need for conservation programs to protect large endangered cats.
Download or read book Northeast Ohio High School Football Rivalries A History written by Vince McKee and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Northeast Ohio high school football has always been known for its great drama, intensity and rivalries. For more than a century, McKinley and Massillon have met on the fall gridiron in one of the state's most evenly matched contests. Since 1971, the St. Ignatius Wildcats have classed with the St. Edward Eagles every year in the Cleveland Holy War. More recently, Avon and Avon Lake kicked off a border war for bragging rights and harware in the Silve Rail Rivalry. Taking you behind the scenes of some of the biggest games in state football history, Vince McKee unfolds play-by-play recaps and memorable moments that will leave you wanting more until the last snap!" -- Back cover.
Download or read book Friday Night Lights written by H. G. Bissinger and published by Random House. This book was released on 2005 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return once again to the enduring account of the Permian Panthers of Odessa -- the winningest high school football team in Texas history.
Download or read book The Stark County Story written by Edward Thornton Heald and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
