Series in Football (american)
Books in Football (american)
Death Becomes No Stranger
Pele, Garrincha, Socrates, Romario, Ronaldinho - all of them can trace their lineage to a young man, half English, half Scottish, who carried a football from Sao Paulo and taught Brazil how to play the beautiful game.In 1894, Charles Miller arrived in Brazil with a pair of boots, a book of rules and a football. When he discovered that no one knew how to play, he marked out a pitch, gathered twenty young men and divided them into two teams...Today, Brazil is the greatest football-playing nation in the world, admired everywhere for its skill, passion, flair and commitment to attacking play - but Charles Miller has been forgotten. This is his story; a gripping narrative of one man's love of football and the clash between two very different cultures: the foxtrot versus the samba; the stiff upper lip versus swinging hips. Josh Lacey tells the profoundly moving story of a man who gave Brazil its greatest gift but lost everything - his heart, his soul and even his wife - to that seductive country.
I'll Tell You One Thing
The sportswriter and humorist reviews the best college football teams in Texas' history, focusing on his alma mater, Texas Christian University.
Texas Christian University Football Vault
Book by Dan Jenkins
The Dark Side of the Game
In this book, 8-year veteran of the NFL Tim Green reveals for the first time the scandals, the horrors, the abuses and also the wonders of playing football.
The Legend of Jesse Smoke
Jesse Smoke was nothing short of a true phenomenon. By now, everyone knows who she was and what she accomplished. She is perhaps the most famous woman in the world; a consummate athlete, strong, swift, smart and definitely her own person. She has the will of a field marshal, and the talent of a John Elway, Peyton Manning, or even Joe Montana. Built like Montana, she had a better arm and was just as cool under pressure. Coach Walter "Skip" Granger worked with her and knew her in the glory years. In spite of all that has been written about her, no one has tackled the story of her difficult and seemingly impossible rise to fame. This is the true story of the young woman who's skill with a football, and leadership of men twice her size, made her into a modern day Legend. No other commentator has had the kind of intimate relationship with Jess Smoke as Coach "Skip" Granger. He is the man who discovered her; it was his ingenuity and skillful management of the wide array of clichés about men and women that led the way for her eventual success in the most male of all sports. And it was also Coach Granger who was there when the legal world, the NFL and its union and even the Canadian Football league came crashing down on her and revealed the dark secret that threatened to ruin her. Here is the story from the man who in many ways engineered it; from the coach whose awareness of the skill required to play quarterback, and faith in his own judgment of that skill in another human being, made Jesse's most improbable odyssey possible. Now the truth of the legend can be told.
The Undefeated: The Oklahoma Sooners and the Greatest Winning Streak in College Football
For three perfect seasons (1954-1956), the Oklahoma Sooners won every football game they played - home or away - and over the course of five years they won 47 straight games. This awesome record was the product of a genius and masterful coach named Bud Wilkinson and the spirited young men he led. The Undefeated will detail all the thrilling action on the field during this record winning streak, but it will also reveal all the behind-the-scenes tumult and pressure swirling around it. Dent presents an absorbing character study of the brilliant, complex coach who engineered it all - Bud Wilkinson, the on-field genius whoses starched-shirt public persona hid a man of many secrets and an in-depth look at a state and its people still suffering from a Depression hangover and an identity crisis, who took up the Sooners football banner almost as a religious cause. Through it all, the young men who accomplished this amazing feat shine in vivid life.