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Gridiron

Author : Philip Kerr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1409018873

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When Oberlin was King of the Gridiron

Author : Nat Brandt
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0873386841

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In October 1892, a young law graduate, John Heisman, assumed the unpaid position as coach of Oberlin College's football squad. This bespectacled, stoop-shouldered young man led the team to an undefeated first season. This book recounts the story of the Oberlin fans, players, heroes, and rivals.

Gridiron Genius

Author : Michael Lombardi
Publisher : Crown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780525573838

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Former NFL general manager and three-time Super Bowl winner Michael Lombardi reveals what makes football organizations tick at the championship level. From personnel to practice to game-day decisions that win titles, Lombardi shares what he learned working with coaching legends Bill Walsh of the 49ers, Al Davis of the Raiders, and Bill Belichick of the Patriots, among others, during his three decades in football. Why do some NFL franchises dominate year after year while others can never crack the code of success? For 30 years Michael Lombardi had a front-row seat and full access as three titans--Bill Walsh, Al Davis, and Bill Belichick--reinvented the game, turning it into a national obsession while piling up Super Bowl trophies. Now, in Gridiron Genius, Lombardi provides the blueprint that makes a successful organization click and win--and the mistakes unsuccessful organizations make that keep them on the losing side time and again. In reality, very few coaches understand the philosophies, attention to detail, and massive commitment that defined NFL juggernauts like the 49ers and the Patriots. The best organizations are not just employing players, they are building something bigger. Gridiron Genius will explain how the best leaders evaluate, acquire, and utilize personnel in ways other professional minds, football and otherwise, won't even contemplate. How do you know when to trade a player? How do you create a positive atmosphere when everyone is out to maximize his own paycheck? And why is the tight end like the knight on a chessboard? To some, game planning consists only of designing an attack for the next opponent. But Lombardi explains how the smartest leaders script everything: from an afternoon's special-teams practice to a season's playoff run to a decade-long organizational blueprint. Readers will delight in the Lombardi tour of an NFL weekend, including what really goes on during the game on and off the field and inside the headset. First stop: Belichick's Saturday night staff meeting, where he announces how the game will go the next day. Spoiler alert: He always nails it. Football dynasties are built through massive attention to detail and unwavering commitment. From how to build a team, to how to watch a game, to understanding the essential qualities of great leaders, Gridiron Genius gives football fans the knowledge to be the smartest person in the room every Sunday.

Gridiron

Author : Fred Bowen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781481481144

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This accessible, informative, and beautifully illustrated book celebrates the 100th anniversary of the NFL and is the perfect keepsake for football fans of all ages. The National Football League is the most popular sports league in the United States. Its championship game, the Super Bowl, is watched by millions of people every year. But it wasn’t always like this. In the last one hundred years, football has changed from a poorly organized, often overlooked sport to America’s favorite pastime. Here are the stories of that remarkable transformation. The stories of the greatest players, the most successful coaches, the most memorable games—and the amazing plays that made us gasp as we watched them in stadiums and on televisions all over America. Discover the league’s scrappy beginnings in an automobile showroom, and early players like Red Grange, the Galloping Ghost. Relive the very first championship game, played indoors after a circus had visited, and famous games like the Ice Bowl. See the NFL at war, and meet some of the remarkable athletes who helped desegregate the league. Learn how the draft came into existence, and about the teams that strove for that almost impossible goal—a perfect season. Veteran sportswriter Fred Bowen brings his in-depth knowledge and lively prose to these fascinating stories, and award-winning artist James E. Ransome has created stunning full-page illustrations that bring the sport of football to life like never before.

Striking Gridiron

Author : Greg Nichols
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781466835344

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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.

Gridiron Gauntlet

Author : Andy Piascik
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781589796522

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On Bloody Sunday, January 30, 1972, British paratroopers killed thirteen innocent men in Derry. It was one of the most controversial events in the history of the Northern Ireland conflict and also one of the most mediated. The horror was recorded in newspapers and photographs, on TV news and current affairs, and in film and TV drama. In a cross media analysis that spans a period of almost forty years up to the publication of the Saville Report in 2010, "The British Media and Bloody Sunday" identifies two countervailing impulses in media coverage of Bloody Sunday and its legacy: an urge in the press to rescue the image and reputation of the British Army versus a troubled conscience in TV current affairs and drama about what was done in Britain's name. In so doing, it suggests a much more complex set of representations than a straightforward propaganda analysis might allow for, one that says less about the conflict in Ireland than it does about Britain, with its loss of empire and its crisis of national identity.

Gridiron Capital

Author : Lisa Uperesa
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478022701

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Since the 1970s, a “Polynesian Pipeline” has brought football players from American Sāmoa to Hawaii and the mainland United States to play at the collegiate and professional levels. In Gridiron Capital Lisa Uperesa charts the cultural and social dynamics that have made football so central to Samoan communities. For Samoan athletes, football is not just an opportunity for upward mobility; it is a way to contribute to, support, and represent their family, village, and nation. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, archival research, and media analysis, Uperesa shows how the Samoan ascendancy in football is underpinned by the legacies of US empire and a set of imperial formations that mark Indigenous Pacific peoples as racialized subjects of US economic aid and development. Samoan players succeed by becoming entrepreneurs: building and commodifying their bodies and brands to enhance their football stock and market value. Uperesa offers insights into the social and physical costs of pursuing a football career, the structures that compel Pacific Islander youth toward athletic labor, and the possibilities for safeguarding their health and wellbeing in the future. Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient

Gridiron Gumshoe

Author : Ace Cacchiotti
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781491703793

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"Gridiron Gumshoe" My life in and out of the NFL Films' Vault" by Ace Cacchiotti is a Pro Football Fanatics' guide to my literal life working with the most accomplished producers who have lent their artistic values to all that follow the game and who live vicariously through one who contributed to the company by "Paying attention to detail and Finishing like a Pro". From young Steve Sabol's "They Called it Pro Football" produced in 1967, to "Joe and the Magic Bean" again written and produced by Steve in 1976, "75 Seasons"; "The Story of the National Football League" in 1994 to "America's Game" from 2005 and to the late NFL Films' President's tribute; Steve Sabol, "The Guts and Glory of Pro Football" on February 12th, 2013, the game of Pro Football is watched by hundred of millions through the camera eye of what is without a doubt the measuring stick for all others when it comes to capturing passion in and on any field. This author was given a wonderful opportunity to express himself and by doing so left a legacy with not only my peers but with my late loving boss; my friend Steve Sabol. I hope you will be able to experience through the "Gridiron Gumshoe" a most rewarding Pro Football Journey. Enjoy; Ace Cacchiotti

Integrating the Gridiron

Author : Lane Demas
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780813549972

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This is the first book devoted to exploring the racial politics of college athletics, examining the history of African Americans on predominantly white college football teams from the 19th century through today.

Jack Winter’s Gridiron Chums

Author : Mark Overton
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9791041819508

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" Step onto the gridiron and experience the exhilaration of American football in "Jack Winter's Gridiron Chums" by Mark Overton. This thrilling novel follows the journey of Jack Winter and his teammates as they navigate the challenges, triumphs, and camaraderie of the football field. Set within the electrifying world of football, the story unfolds with intense competition, teamwork, and the bonds forged through the love of the game. Jack Winter and his gridiron chums train hard, strategize, and face formidable opponents as they strive for victory, pushing their limits and discovering the true meaning of sportsmanship. Mark Overton's storytelling captures the adrenaline-pumping atmosphere of the gridiron, vividly portraying the exhilarating plays, fierce rivalries, and the spirit of unity that defines football. Through the team's journey, readers witness the determination, resilience, and personal growth that comes from pushing oneself to the limits in pursuit of a shared goal. Join Jack Winter's gridiron chums as they navigate the highs and lows of the football season, forging lifelong friendships, learning valuable lessons, and leaving their mark on the field."

Gridiron Underground

Author : James R. Wallen
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781459743229

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Gridiron Underground by James R. Wallen Pdf

Gridiron Underground traces the Canadian lifeline that brought talented African-American football players who were overlooked, ignored, or prevented from playing football in their home country from the 1940s right through to the present day.

Gridiron Gourmet

Author : Maria J. Veri,Rita Liberti
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781610756716

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Gridiron Gourmet by Maria J. Veri,Rita Liberti Pdf

On football weekends in the United States, thousands of fans gather in the parking lots outside of stadiums, where they park their trucks, let down the gates, and begin a pregame ritual of drinking and grilling. Tailgating, which began in the early 1900s as a quaint picnic lunch outside of the stadium, has evolved into a massive public social event with complex menus, extravagant creative fare, and state-of-art grilling equipment. Unlike traditional notions of the home kitchen, the blacktop is a highly masculine culinary environment in which men and the food they cook are often the star attractions. Gridiron Gourmet examines tailgating as shown in television, film, advertising, and cookbooks, and takes a close look at the experiences of those tailgaters who are as serious about their brisket as they are about cheering on their favorite team, demonstrating how and why the gendered performances on the football field are often matched by the intensity of the masculine displays in front of grills, smokers, and deep fryers.

Gridiron Gamer

Author : Jake Maddox
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781666353327

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Being in a wheelchair prevents Iako from hitting the real gridiron, but he makes up for it by being a whiz at the video game, Football Blitz, so when the opportunity arises, Iako enters an esports tournament to prove he can compete as well as anyone else.

Gridiron Glory

Author : Barry Wilner,Ken Rappoport
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781461626053

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Gridiron Glory by Barry Wilner,Ken Rappoport Pdf

Consistently ranked among the top ten college football rivalries by fans and pundits alike-and often ranked among the top five-the annual Army-Navy game is the one rivalry that, as one commentator has noted, "stops the most powerful men and women in the world in their tracks for one day a year." It is also quite possible that it is the only rivalry to raise over $58 million in war bonds (1944 game), have an outcome so contentious that the game had to be suspended for six years by the President (1893), or be played in the Rose Bowl (1983), requiring a military "airlift" of nine thousand cadets and midshipmen to California. But Army-Navy is first and foremost about football, and as Barry Wilner and Ken Rappoport relate in this engaging history, it may be college football in its purest form-and not just as a "training ground for the NFL." Though struggling for national ranking, the service academies have done surprisingly well over the years given their recruiting handicap, producing five Heisman Trophy winners and a number of national champions. The rivalry's most successful player may have been Roger Staubach, Heisman winner and Hall of Fame quarterback, who led the Dallas Cowboys to two Super Bowls in the 1970s following his four-year mandatory service in the U.S. Navy. The Army-Navy rivalry is also about traditions, and in a concluding chapter on the 2004 game, the authors take us through the pageantry: the march into the stadium by the student bodies of both schools; freshman push-ups after each score; and the final, moving show of sportsmanship following the game as thousands of cadets and midshipmen stand at attention while the alma mater of each school is played by their respective bands. A rivalry like no other, Army versus Navy receives due recognition in this colorful, thorough history.

Cobbett's Gridiron

Author : William Cobbett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OXFORD:400141773

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