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Author : Marc S. Maltby
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Origins and Early Development of Professional Football, 1890-1920 written by Marc S. Maltby and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : marc samuel Maltby
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (123 download)
Download or read book The Origins and Early Development of Professional Football, 1890-1920 written by marc samuel Maltby and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Professional Football Researchers Association (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781466418240
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (182 download)
Download or read book The Early History of Professional Football written by Professional Football Researchers Association (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven A. Riess
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118609409
Total Pages : 921 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (186 download)
Download or read book A Companion to American Sport History written by Steven A. Riess and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 921 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to American Sport History presents a collection of original essays that represent the first comprehensive analysis of scholarship relating to the growing field of American sport history. Presents the first complete analysis of the scholarship relating to the academic history of American sport Features contributions from many of the finest scholars working in the field of American sport history Includes coverage of the chronology of sports from colonial times to the present day, including major sports such as baseball, football, basketball, boxing, golf, motor racing, tennis, and track and field Addresses the relationship of sports to urbanization, technology, gender, race, social class, and genres such as sports biography Awarded 2015 Best Anthology from the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH)
Author : Marc S. Maltby
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780815327974
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (279 download)
Download or read book The Origins and Early Development of Professional Football written by Marc S. Maltby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1997 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors. Miola's edited work also features a comprehensive critical history, coupled with a full bibliography and photographs of major productions of the play from around the world. In the collection, there are five previously unpublished essays. The topics covered in these new essays are women in the play, the play's debt to contemporary theater, its critical and performance histories in Germany and Japan, the metrical variety of the play, and the distinctly modern perspective on the play as containing dark and disturbing elements. To compliment these new essays, the collection features significant scholarship and commentary on The Comedy of Errors that is published in obscure and difficulty accessible journals, newspapers, and other sources. This collection brings together these essays for the first time.
Author : Chris Willis
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 1461670179
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)
Download or read book Old Leather written by Chris Willis and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2005-07-07 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very little has been documented about the early days of pro football and the pioneers who had a major influence in the history of the NFL. Chris Willis, head of the Research Library at NFL Films, seeks to address this neglect. In this collection of original and archival interviews, former players, owners, fans, family members and league officials provide a rare glimpse into the origins of professional football. Full of rich anecdotes, early stars such as Red Grange, Jim Thorpe, Dutch Clark, Glenn Presnell, and Pete Henry are brought back to the playing field. The interviews also reveal how small towns in Ohio such as Canton, Akron, Columbus, and Dayton came to host franchises, as the state became a major force in the founding and growth of the NFL. Old Leather provides the reader with a firsthand look at a period that has largely been ignored. It recalls what the era of professional football was like in the age of leather helmets, no television, dirt fields, small salaries and when playing for the love of the game was its own reward. This book will appeal not only to historians, sportswriters, and scholars, but also to die-hard fans and general history buffs who can never get enough of America's favorite sport. Contains 17 photographs of players, owners, and teams.
Author : Jerry Roberts
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078649946X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
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.
Author : Craig R. Coenen
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572334472
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (344 download)
Download or read book From Sandlots to the Super Bowl written by Craig R. Coenen and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book also details how the league faced challenges from rival leagues, the government, and at times, itself. Finally, it documents how the NFL mastered the use of new technologies like television to market itself, generate new revenue, and secure its financial future. Coenen approaches the history of the National Football League not only with stats and scores but with what happened beyond the gridiron."--Jacket.
Author : John M. Carroll
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252067990
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (679 download)
Download or read book Fritz Pollard written by John M. Carroll and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the inspiring story of an African American whose athletic and entrepreneurial achievements -- from being the first black quarterback and head coach in the National Football League to founding one of the first all-black investment securities companies -- were equaled by his courage in confronting racial barriers.
Author : Richard C. Crepeau
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252052463
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
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 274 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.
Author : Charles K. Ross
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814776833
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Outside the Lines written by Charles K. Ross and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the often overlooked role of the NFL in the American civil rights movement Watching a football game on a Sunday evening, most sports fans do not realize the profound impact the National Football League had on the civil rights movement. Similarly, in a sport where seven out of ten players are Black, few are fully aware of the history and contributions of their athletic forebears. Among the touchdowns and tackles lies a rich history of African American life and the struggle to achieve equal rights. Outside the Lines traces how football laid a foundation for social change long before the judicial system formally recognized the inequalities of racial separation. Integrating teams to include white and Black athletes alike fifty years before the reversal of Plessy v Ferguson, the National Football League served as a microcosmic fishbowl of the highs and lows—the trials and triumphs—of racial integration. In this chronicle of the important stories of Black NFL athletes in the early twentieth century, Charles K. Ross has given us an important insight into the role of sports in the fight for racial justice.
Author : Frank P. Jozsa, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786455616
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Football Fortunes written by Frank P. Jozsa, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Football may be sport, but the National Football League is at heart a business--how else to account for the stratospheric salaries of the players and coaches? Yet most people are unaware of how that business developed. This book details the growth of an industry that generates billions of dollars in revenue and explains the intricacies of the league's expansions and mergers, territories and relocations; the operation of franchises; the role of stadiums and markets; and the effect of the NFL on domestic and foreign affairs.
Author : Kate Buford
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307594297
Total Pages : 709 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Native American Son written by Kate Buford and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive biography of the legendary figure who defined excellence in American sports: Jim Thorpe, arguably the greatest all-around athlete the United States has ever seen. With clarity and a fine eye for detail, Kate Buford traces the pivotal moments of Thorpe’s incomparable career: growing up in the tumultuous Indian Territory of Oklahoma; leading the Carlisle Indian Industrial School football team, coached by the renowned “Pop” Warner, to victories against the country’s finest college teams; winning gold medals in the 1912 Olympics pentathlon and decathlon; defining the burgeoning sport of professional football and helping to create what would become the National Football League; and playing long, often successful—and previously unexamined—years in professional baseball. But, at the same time, Buford vividly depicts the difficulties Thorpe faced as a Native American—and a Native American celebrity at that—early in the twentieth century. We also see the infamous loss of his Olympic medals, stripped from him because he had previously played professional baseball, an event that would haunt Thorpe for the rest of his life. We see his struggles with alcoholism and personal misfortune, losing his first child and moving from one failed marriage to the next, coming to distrust many of the hands extended to him. Finally, we learn the details of his vigorous advocacy for Native American rights while he chased a Hollywood career, and the truth behind the supposed reinstatement of his Olympic record in 1982. Here is the story—long overdue and brilliantly told—of a complex, iconoclastic, profoundly talented man whose life encompassed both tragic limitations and truly extraordinary achievements.
Author : Robert Peterson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195076079
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Pigskin written by Robert Peterson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today professional football is America's leading spectator sport, largely because of television. Before the late 1950s, it was a distinctly minor sport.
Author : David S. Neft
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312050894
Total Pages : 1008 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (58 download)
Download or read book The Football Encyclopedia written by David S. Neft and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sports historians Neft and Cohen have created the football counterpart to Macmillan's Baseball Encyclopedia with this collection of rare, never-before-published statistics on the earliest years of organized pro football. Features key historical events from the game's origins in the 1890s through the 1990-91 season and Super Bowl.
Author : Steven A. Riess
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118537823
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (185 download)
Download or read book Sport in Industrial America, 1850-1920 written by Steven A. Riess and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport in Industrial America, 1850-1920 presents the second edition of Stephen A. Riess’s well-loved synthesis of the development of sport during one of the most transformational times in the nation’s history. New edition maintains the book’s acclaimed level of research, analysis, and readability Explores topics including urbanization, ethnicity, class, sport in educational institutions, women in sport, and sport’s role in manifesting city, regional, and national pride. Includes an entirely new chapter on the globalization of American sport Includes a new bank of photographs and images. Features a newly revised and updated Bibliographical Essay
Author : Melvin I. Smith
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1434362477
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (343 download)
Download or read book Evolvements of Early American Foot Ball written by Melvin I. Smith and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a revision/extension to the author's first book. With the recent availability of digitized old newspapers and magazines, much more foot ball data have been found for the 1800s. The games are again divided into three basic forms of foot ball; but now are listed under the actual style names used at the times played. They are the Kicking Game/Association Football (now soccer), Carrying Game/Boston Rules Game/American Rugby Game/ English Rugby Union (now rugby) and the Ball-Control Game/American Collegiate Game/American Rugby Football (now football).Within these basic forms, the games are listed under colleges, independent clubs and high schools. There is a chapter on leagues/conferences and the appendices contain team histories with the types of foot ball played.
