Minor League Football 1960 1985

Author : Bob Gill,Steven M. Brainerd,Tod Maher
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Minor league football
ISBN : 0786413670

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Minor League Football, 1960-1985 by Bob Gill,Steven M. Brainerd,Tod Maher Pdf

Minor league football has enjoyed two golden eras--first in the 1930s and 1940s, and later in the 1960s and early 1970s. The latter period began with the formation of the United Football League in 1961 and ended with the demise of the World Football League in 1975. After that, several leagues existed, and in 1983 the United States Football League was formed. Even though it was little competition for the NFL, it signed enough of the top minor league players to put an end to the remaining leagues, and none of comparable quality has emerged since. This work is a compilation of standings, statistics, and rosters for the top minor league football teams from 1960 through 1985. It provides brief histories and season summaries for the United Football League, Atlantic Coast Football League, Southern Football League, North American Football League, Continental Football League, Pro Football League of America, Texas Football League, World Football League, and the United States Football League; the overall players and coaches roster for the period; the overall players and coaches roster for the USFL's three seasons; a list of players who were named to an all-star roster, excluding the USFL; and short sketches of some of the top minor league players.

Author : William J. Ryczek
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786478330

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Connecticut Gridiron by William J. Ryczek Pdf

This narrative history of minor league football teams in Connecticut in the 1960s and 1970s is based on extensive newspaper and periodical research and interviews with nearly 70 former players, broadcasters and journalists. Only a few players--like Marv Hubbard, Lou Piccone and Bob Tucker--made it to the NFL, but many more played for as little as $25 per game in their quest to make it big or just have fun. Wealthy men like Pete Savin and Frank D'Addario owned teams in Hartford and Bridgeport. In the days before cable television saturated the media with live sports, small town fans turned out to support their local heroes, often men who worked on construction crews during the week and stopped by the diner Sunday morning to talk football. Now in their 60s, 70s and 80s, these men share their stories of a simpler era; the good times, like the Hartford Knights' 1968 ACFL championship season, and the long bus rides and missed paydays that were as much a part of minor league ball as first downs and interceptions.

Author : Bob Gill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1878282654

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Outsiders II by Bob Gill Pdf

Author : Brad Schultz
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-26
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476684390

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The NFL's Pivotal Years by Brad Schultz Pdf

Recent years have been among the most challenging in NFL history, culminating in the 2020-21 coronavirus and social justice issues. Yet a complete understanding of where the NFL is today begins with a five-year period that was the most transformative for the league. From 1957 to 1962, the NFL saw: the advent of unionization, with a landmark Supreme Court decision; the legendary 1958 title game, the first to go into sudden death overtime; a challenge from the American Football League that would have important consequences for decades; the introduction of computerization and statistical analysis; the first steps towards globalization; and the hiring of legends Vince Lombardi and Tom Landry, who both contributed to the league's growing mythology. This book describes in detail the key events that helped shape the modern NFL, and why this period was so momentous to the league and its fans.

Author : Karen L. Wall
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780888645944

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Game Plan by Karen L. Wall Pdf

Patterns and layers of sport history emerge as almost-forgotten stories of Alberta’s marginalized populations surface.

Author : Chris Epting
Publisher : Santa Monica Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781595809803

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Roadside Baseball by Chris Epting Pdf

Capturing such quintessentially American pastimes as baseball and road trips in one fascinating work, this updated and expanded guide chronicles more than 500 important events in baseball history with detailed descriptions of the event and information on each location. Packed with historical data, trivia, photographs, and baseball lore, entries include the birthplaces of baseball legends, ballparks, museums and halls of fame, final resting places, and many locations that are no longer standing. From out-of-the-way spots to the most popular stadiums in the U.S. and Canada, no site is too small or insignificant to be included in this comprehensive directory. Entries include the Buckminster Hotel in Boston, where the Black Sox planned their fix of the 1919 World Series; the original little league field and museum in Williamsport, Pennsylvania; the birthplace of Jackie Robinson; the place where Mickey Mantle was discovered by a scout from the New York Yankees; and the site of the original Wrigley Field, erected in Los Angeles in 1925.

Author : Gay Hendricks,Tinker Lindsay
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781401948689

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The Fifth Rule of Ten by Gay Hendricks,Tinker Lindsay Pdf

Be mindful, both making and keeping commitments, that they be springboards to liberation, instead of suffering. That’s the Fifth Rule of Ten Ten and his fiancée, Julie, excitedly await the arrival of Ten’s best friends, Lama Yeshe and Lama Lobsang. Ten’s boyhood friends are now the Head Abbots at Tenzing’s former monastic home in India. Ten has helped Yeshe and Lobsang organize a fundraising event sponsored by the Los Angeles Buddhist temple where Tenzing first taught years ago, before shedding his robes to attend the police academy. The big feature of the event will be the unveiling of a sacred sand-painted mandala that the monks will construct in the center of the temple. At the premiere, however, a group of hooligans commit an outrageous act that catapults the story into action. To complicate matters, one of the novice lamas —a brilliant protégé of Lobsang’s —goes missing. Soon a series of strange crimes beset the city, some physical, some cyber. Each crime is unique, but all are mysteriously interconnected. Ten’s attempts to solve those crimes pull him into a dark mirror-world of his sacred Tibetan Buddhist tradition; soon he is engaged in a life-and-death battle with a powerful shadow presence. He joins forces with Yeshe, Lobsang, his ex-partner, Bill, and his hack-tivist buddy, Mike, to track down the Patient Zero of this epidemic of criminal chaos. Finally, he must face the truth: the source of the evil, and the solution, are a lot closer to home than he first thought.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 200?
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0271040963

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Baseball: An Illustrated History by Anonim Pdf

Author : Chris Epting
Publisher : Santa Monica Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781595807915

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Roadside Baseball: The Locations of America's Baseball Landmarks by Chris Epting Pdf

Capturing such quintessentially American pastimes as baseball and road trips in one fascinating work, the updated and expanded third edition of Chris Epting’s Roadside Baseball chronicles more than 500 important events in baseball history with detailed descriptions of the event and information on each location. Packed with historical data, trivia, photographs, and baseball lore, entries include the birthplaces of baseball legends, ballparks, museums and halls of fame, final resting places, and many locations that are no longer standing. From out-of-the-way spots to the most popular stadiums in the U.S. and Canada, no site is too small or insignificant to be included in this comprehensive guide. The third edition of Roadside Baseball includes hundreds of newly discovered landmarks, including the former locations of stadiums that have been torn down since the last edition of the book (Yankee stadium, Shea stadium, Tiger stadium, etc.), information on the Negro Leagues Baseball Marker project which has placed headstones around the country to honor forgotten African-American ballplayers, new exhibits at existing MLB parks, and suggested daytrip itineraries located near your favorite stadiums. Other new entries include the actual diamond used for the classic film, The Sandlot; the exact location where Mickey Mantle’s legendary 565-foot blast landed; the baseball field in Orange County, California where many believe Babe Ruth hit the longest home run of his career against the great Walter Johnson (along with extremely rare photos of Ruth both batting and pitching during that very game); the newly marked location in Kekionga, Indiana where the first major league game was played in 1871; all 29 markers along the new “Hot Springs Baseball Trail” celebrating baseball history in Arkansas; and Heckscher Fields in Central Park, New York, where Larry David’s softball team played in an episode of “Curb Your Enthusisam.” Entries from the previous edition include the Buckminster Hotel in Boston, where the Black Sox planned their fix of the 1919 World Series; the original little league field and museum in Williamsport, Pennsylvania; the birthplace of Jackie Robinson; the place where Mickey Mantle was discovered by a scout from the New York Yankees; and the site of the original Wrigley Field, erected in Los Angeles in 1925. The third edition of Roadside Baseball is the most comprehensive book ever written on the locations of baseball landmarks, and the perfect gift for baseball fans of all ages!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066180426

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nicolae Sfetcu
Publisher : Nicolae Sfetcu
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-04
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Sports Betting by Nicolae Sfetcu Pdf

Sports betting is the general activity of predicting sports results by making a wager on the outcome of a sporting event. Aside from simple wagers--betting a friend that one's favorite baseball team will win its division, for instance, or buying a football "square" for the Super Bowl--sports betting is commonly done through a bookmaker. Bookmakers generally offer two types of wagers on the winner of a sporting event: a straight-up or money line bet, or a point spread wager. Moneylines and straight-up prices are used to set odds on sports such as soccer, baseball and hockey (the scoring nature of which renders point spreads impractical) as well as individual vs. individual matches, like boxing.

Author : Jim Albert,Mark E. Glickman,Tim B. Swartz,Ruud H. Koning
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-03
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781498737371

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Handbook of Statistical Methods and Analyses in Sports by Jim Albert,Mark E. Glickman,Tim B. Swartz,Ruud H. Koning Pdf

This handbook will provide both overviews of statistical methods in sports and in-depth treatment of critical problems and challenges confronting statistical research in sports. The material in the handbook will be organized by major sport (baseball, football, hockey, basketball, and soccer) followed by a section on other sports and general statistical design and analysis issues that are common to all sports. This handbook has the potential to become the standard reference for obtaining the necessary background to conduct serious statistical analyses for sports applications and to appreciate scholarly work in this expanding area.

Author : Arthur Stanley Link
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0075550369

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An Era of Total War and Uncertain Peace, 1936-1985 by Arthur Stanley Link Pdf

Author : George Castle
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781630761271

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Jackie Robinson West by George Castle Pdf

The competition level in Little League has never been tougher, but the kids on the Jackie Robinson West team faced their own set of challenges on and off the baseball diamond. The Jackie Robinson West team takes their fans and followers on a rollercoaster ride of ups and downs as each player shares a different part of the team’s history and experience, including a double-header with President Obama. Jackie Robinson West: The Story of the Youngest America’s Team leads readers on their harrowing path to the Little League World Series.

Author : Pete Palmer
Publisher : Sterling
Page : 1550 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : PSU:000063229837

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The ESPN Pro Football Encyclopedia by Pete Palmer Pdf

Presents the statistics of professional American football players, coaches, and teams for each season from 1920-2006.