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Author : Charles William Alcock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Football: Our Winter Game written by Charles William Alcock and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles William Alcock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (887 download)
Download or read book Football written by Charles William Alcock and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Andrew Powell
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 1555847234
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)
Download or read book We Own This Game written by Robert Andrew Powell and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Sports Illustrated Best Book of the Year: “Vivid portraits of the kids, parents and coaches of the Greater Miami Pop Warner league” (Linda Robertson, The Miami Herald). Although its participants are still in grade school, Pop Warner football is serious business in Miami, where local teams routinely advance to the national championships. Games draw thousands of fans; recruiters vie for nascent talent; drug dealers and rap stars bankroll teams; and the stakes are so high that games sometimes end in gunshots. In America’s poorest neighborhood, troubled parents dream of NFL stardom for children who long only for a week in Disney World at the Pop Warner Super Bowl. In 2001, journalist Robert Andrew Powell spent a year following two teams through roller-coaster seasons. The Liberty City Warriors, former national champs, will suffer the team’s first-ever losing season. The Palmetto Raiders, undefeated for two straight years, will be rewarded for good play with limo rides and steak dinners. But their flamboyant coach (the “Darth Vader of Pop Warner coaches”) will face defeat in a down-to-the-wire playoff game. We Own This Game is an inside-the-huddle look into a world of innocence and corruption, where every kickoff bares political, social, and racial implications; an unforgettable drama that shows us just what it is to win and to lose in America. “Powell elevates We Own This Game well above the average sports book to a significant sociological study.” —San Francisco Chronicle
Author : David Goldblatt
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0670920592
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (79 download)
Download or read book The Game of Our Lives written by David Goldblatt and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2015 In the last two decades football in Britain has made the transition from a peripheral dying sport to the very centre of our popular culture, from an economic basket-case to a booming entertainment industry. What does it mean when football becomes so central to our private and political lives? Has it enriched us or impoverished us? In this sparkling book David Goldblatt argues that no social phenomenon tracks the momentous economic, social and political changes of the post-Thatcherite era in a more illuminating manner than football, and no cultural practice sheds more light on the aspirations and attitudes of our long boom and now calamitous bust. A must-read for the thinking football fan, The Game of Our Lives will appeal to readers of Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby and Inverting the Pyramid by Jonathan Wilson. It will also be relished by readers of British social history such as Austerity Britain by David Kynaston. 'Brilliantly incisive. Goldblatt is not merely the best football historian writing today, he is possibly the best there has ever been. Goldblatt's book could hardly be more impressive' Sunday Times
Author : Bill Griffiths
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Our Winter Game written by Bill Griffiths and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian D. Bunk
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252052781
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book From Football to Soccer written by Brian D. Bunk and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rediscovering soccer's long history in the U.S. Across North America, native peoples and colonists alike played a variety of kicking games long before soccer's emergence in the late 1800s. Brian D. Bunk examines the development and social impact of these sports through the rise of professional soccer after World War I. As he shows, the various games called football gave women an outlet as athletes and encouraged men to form social bonds based on educational experience, occupation, ethnic identity, or military service. Football also followed young people to college as higher education expanded in the nineteenth century. University play, along with the arrival of immigrants from the British Isles, helped spark the creation of organized soccer in the United States—and the beautiful game's transformation into a truly international sport. A multilayered look at one game’s place in American life, From Football to Soccer refutes the notion of the U.S. as a land outside of football history.
Author : Paul Brown
Publisher : Superelastic
ISBN 13 : 0956227058
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (562 download)
Download or read book The Victorian Football Miscellany written by Paul Brown and published by Superelastic. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Victorian Football Miscellany is a quirky and fascinating collection of trivia, facts and anecdotes from football’s earliest years. Delve into an absorbing world of ox-bladder balls, baggy-kneed knickerbockers and outstanding moustaches, and read remarkable tales of the first ever cup final, the invention of the shinpad, the evolution of dribbling, the first own goal and a seemingly-invincible penalty-taking elephant. Other entries cover the foundation of the Football Association, the development of the Laws of the Game and the origins of football’s most popular clubs. Packed with stories, profiles and lists, this is an indispensable guide to the colourful and unusual world of 19th century football.
Author : Dominic Stevenson
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1786784521
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Get Your Head in the Game written by Dominic Stevenson and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get Your Head in the Game is the first book to tackle the issue of mental health and its relationship with the most popular sport in the world, football. Football is more than just a sport; the pitch reveals emotion in the extreme, from the glory of goals, the thrill of comradeship, the rollercoaster of club loyalty, through to the immense pressure of expectation, fear of injury, and crushing defeat. Fans, players, managers, coaches, and even those new to the sport can't help but be swept up by the drama at the heart of the beautiful game. But when players at the peak of their physical fitness commit suicide, or poor mental health derails careers, there can still be a stunned silence in the community, a lack of connection. In Get Your Head in the Game, Dominic Stevenson, a writer, player, coach, and lifelong football obsessive, interviews a diverse cross-section of characters in the football world, from fans to managers, from players at the start of their careers to retired veterans, women's football stars, international celebrities, refugee footballers and mental health professionals. Football is more than just a sport. The pitch reveals emotion in the extreme: from the glory of goals, the rollercoaster of club loyalty, through to the immense pressure of expectation, fear of injury, and crushing defeat. Fans, players, managers, coaches and even those new to the sport can't help but be swept up by the drama of the beautiful game. But when players at the peak of their physical fitness commit suicide, or poor mental health derails careers, there can still be a stunned silence in the community, a lack of connection. Dominic Stevenson, a writer, player, coach and lifelong football obsessive, interviews a diverse cross-section of characters in the football world to try to understand this lost connection between the sport and the mind. This book contains contributions from internationally renowned players such as Sam Hutchinson, Chris Kirkland, Ella Masar, John Harkes and Iffy Onoura. From voices at top clubs around the globe including Manchester United, Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea and DC United, to the stories of smaller clubs and unsung heroes behind the scenes, Dominic reveals personal battles both on and off the pitch, touching on anxiety, depression, discrimination, trauma, identity and recovery.
Author : James Walvin
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 178057777X
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)
Download or read book The People's Game written by James Walvin and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the twentieth century, soccer was widely accepted as the most popular game in the western world. In the space of a few decades, it had become the best-supported team game in Britain, watched and played by more boys and men than any other sport. Yet here was a game with strong traditional folk roots and a history that stretched back to the late Middle Ages. In the course of the nineteenth century, football was transformed, mainly within the British public schools, to become the codified and disciplined game of urban working men. The passion for the game spread from one town to another, a passion that, though familiar today, was new in the years after 1870. Thereafter, the game rapidly spread to much of the world: to Europe, South America and a host of other societies. This book tells the story of the rise of this remarkable British game and the way it became the game of the masses across the world. In the wealth of literature about football published in recent years, no other book provides so concise and colourful an account as The People's Game.
Author : Michael MacCambridge
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307481433
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book America's Game written by Michael MacCambridge and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2008-11-26 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s difficult to imagine today—when the Super Bowl has virtually become a national holiday and the National Football League is the country’s dominant sports entity—but pro football was once a ramshackle afterthought on the margins of the American sports landscape. In the span of a single generation in postwar America, the game charted an extraordinary rise in popularity, becoming a smartly managed, keenly marketed sports entertainment colossus whose action is ideally suited to television and whose sensibilities perfectly fit the modern age. America’s Game traces pro football’s grand transformation, from the World War II years, when the NFL was fighting for its very existence, to the turbulent 1980s and 1990s, when labor disputes and off-field scandals shook the game to its core, and up to the sport’s present-day preeminence. A thoroughly entertaining account of the entire universe of professional football, from locker room to boardroom, from playing field to press box, this is an essential book for any fan of America’s favorite sport.
Author : Richard William Cox
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714652504
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (525 download)
Download or read book British Sport written by Richard William Cox and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume three of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.
Author : Richard Cox
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113528721X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book British Sport: a Bibliography to 2000 written by Richard Cox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume one of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.
Author : Thomas Pearce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)
Download or read book The "Idstone" Papers written by Thomas Pearce and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adrian Harvey
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415350190
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (153 download)
Download or read book Football written by Adrian Harvey and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Alfred Edward Thomas Watson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Year's Sport written by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
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Author : Francis Francis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book By Lake and River written by Francis Francis and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
