Author : Elmer Berry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Football
ISBN : UOM:39015031902185
The Forward Pass in Football
Elmer Berry
The Forward Pass In Football
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The Forward Pass in Football
Berry Elmer
Author : Berry Elmer
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 131898307X
The Forward Pass in Football by Berry Elmer Pdf
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The Forward Pass in Football
Berry Elmer
Author : Berry Elmer
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1022134876
The Forward Pass in Football by Berry Elmer Pdf
This book sheds light on the evolution of the forward pass in football. It explains how this innovation transformed the game and paved the way for modern football. It is a must-read for football fans and anyone interested in the history of American sports. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Forward Pass
Philip L. Brooks
Author : Philip L. Brooks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-18
Category : Football
ISBN : 1594162166
Forward Pass by Philip L. Brooks Pdf
"How it came to be that an upstart Notre Dame team took a revolutionary style of football on the road against Army, Penn State, and Texas, and transformed a deadly game into America's favorite sport"--Cover.
Forward Pass
Philip L. Brooks
Author : Philip L. Brooks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015073943469
Forward Pass by Philip L. Brooks Pdf
"How it came to be that an upstart Notre Dame team took a revolutionary style of football on the road against Army, Penn State, and Texas, and transformed a deadly game into America's favorite sport"--Cover.
Winning Football with the Forward Pass
Lavell Edwards,Norman Chow
Author : Lavell Edwards,Norman Chow
Publisher : William C Brown Pub
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1985-06-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0697068366
Winning Football with the Forward Pass by Lavell Edwards,Norman Chow Pdf
Forward Pass
Ralph Henry Barbour
Author : Ralph Henry Barbour
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Boarding schools
ISBN : OCLC:25959641
Forward Pass by Ralph Henry Barbour Pdf
College Football
John Sayle Watterson
Author : John Sayle Watterson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781421441573
College Football by John Sayle Watterson Pdf
The rules of the game have changed in the past hundred years, but human nature has not. "In March [1892] Stanford and California had played the first college football game on the Pacific Coast in San Francisco . . . The pregame activities included a noisy parade down streets bedecked with school colors. Tickets sold so fast that the Stanford student manager, future president Herbert Hoover, and his California counterpart, could not keep count of the gold and silver coins. When they finally totaled up the proceeds, they found that the revenues amounted to $30,000—a fair haul for a game that had to be temporarily postponed because no one had thought to bring a ball!"—from College Football: History, Spectacle, Controversy, Chapter Three In this comprehensive history of America's popular pastime, John Sayle Watterson shows how college football in more than one hundred years has evolved from a simple game played by college students into a lucrative, semiprofessional enterprise. With a historian's grasp of the context and a novelist's eye for the telling detail, Watterson presents a compelling portrait rich in anecdotes, colorful personalities, and troubling patterns. He tells how the infamous Yale-Princeton "fiasco" of 1881, in which Yale forced a 0-0 tie in a championship game by retaining possession of the ball for the entire game, eventually led to the first-down rule that would begin to transform Americanized rugby into American football. He describes the kicks and punches, gouged eyes, broken collarbones, and flagrant rule violations that nearly led to the sport's demise (including such excesses as a Yale player who wore a uniform soaked in blood from a slaughterhouse). And he explains the reforms of 1910, which gave official approval to a radical new tactic traditionalists were sure would doom the game as they knew it—the forward pass. As college football grew in the booming economy of the 1920s, Watterson explains, the flow of cash added fuel to an already explosive mix. Coaches like Knute Rockne became celebrities in their own right, with highly paid speaking engagements and product endorsements. At the same time, the emergence of the first professional teams led to inevitable scandals involving recruitment and subsidies for student-athletes. Revelations of illicit aid to athletes in the 1930s led to failed attempts at reform by the fledgling NCAA in the postwar "Sanity Code," intended to control abuses by permitting limited subsidies to college players but which actually paved the way for the "free ride" many players receive today. Watterson also explains how the growth of TV revenue led to college football programs' unprecedented prosperity, just as the rise of professional football seemed to relegate college teams to "minor league" status. He explores issues of gender and race, from the shocked reactions of spectators to the first female cheerleaders in the 1930s to their successful exploitation by Roone Arledge three decades later. He describes the role of African-American players, from the days when Southern schools demanded all-white teams (and Northern schools meekly complied); through the black armbands and protests of the 60s; to one of the game's few successful, if limited, reforms, as black athletes dominate the playing field while often being shortchanged in the classroom. Today, Watterson observes, colleges' insatiable hunger for revenues has led to an abuse-filled game nearly indistinguishable from the professional model of the NFL. After examining the standard solutions for reform, he offers proposals of his own, including greater involvement by faculty, trustees, and college presidents. Ultimately, however, Watterson concludes that the history of college football is one in which the rules of the game have changed, but those of human nature have not.
The Anatomy of a Game
David M. Nelson
Author : David M. Nelson
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0874134552
The Anatomy of a Game by David M. Nelson Pdf
"This is the first football history to chronicle year by year how playing rules developed the game. Football - a four-dimensional game of rushing, kicking, forward passing, and backward passing - has had more playing rule changes since its inception than any other sport. The Anatomy of a Game follows football rules from the game's European roots through its beginning in the United States to its position as the number-one spectator sport in the 1990s. Highlighted are details of the crisis years that changed the character of the game, with coaches and rules committee members the featured players. David M. Nelson, who served on the NCAA Rules Committee longer than Walter Camp, provides personal insight into all Rules Committee meetings since 1958, as well as an appendix - chronological and by rule - listing every change since 1876." "Ever since the first two human beings kicked, threw, or batted an object competitively, there have been playing rules. Games are mentioned in the Bible, and the Romans brought football's forerunner to Britain, from where it was exported to the United States. It was in the United States that college students decided to make their game rugby rather than soccer. Although the students invented United States football and made the first rules, their ruling power was eventually lost to the faculty, administrators, coaches, rules committees, and the NCAA." "Beginning as a brutal sport, football survived several crises before and after the turn of the century, eventually becoming respectable. The 1931 injury crisis split the high school and college rules and the same year the professionals went their own way, with rules largely based on spectator appeal." "Today the sport is a national treasure primarily because of its playing rules, over seven hundred in total, which make college football unique among the world's team sports. Moreover, football remains an American game, never having the same impact in other countries as do baseball and basketball." "Rules make the game, but people make the rules. Football survived the major crises that threatened the game because committee members adhered to the precepts that had governed football since its inception. The game began with an attempt to have a consistent code of justice, personal accountability, and equality. In some sense the playing rules are a type of moral precept that explains in the simplest terms what can and cannot be done. The Football Code, which first prefaced the rules in 1916, makes the game - more than any other sport - a moral one because it sets standards for coaching, playing, sportsmanship, and officiating."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Pigskin
Robert W. Peterson
Author : Robert W. Peterson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1997-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0195353307
Pigskin by Robert W. Peterson Pdf
If the National Football League is now a mammoth billion-dollar enterprise, it was certainly born into more humble circumstances. Indeed, it began in 1920 in an automobile showroom in Canton, Ohio, when a car dealer called together some owners of teams, mostly in the Midwest, to form a league. Unlike the lavish boardrooms in which NFL owners meet today, on this occasion the owners sat on the running boards of cars in the showroom and drank beer from buckets. A membership fee of $100 was set, but no one came up with any money. (As one of those present, George Halas, the legendary owner of the Chicago Bears, said, "I doubt that there was a hundred bucks in the room.") From such modest beginnings, pro football became far and away the most popular spectator sport in America. In Pigskin, Robert W. Peterson presents a lively and informative overview of the early years of pro football--from the late 1880s to the beginning of the television era. Peterson describes the colorful beginnings of the pro game and its outstanding teams (the Green Bay Packers, the New York Giants, the Chicago Bears, the Baltimore Colts), and the great games they played. Profiles of the most famous players of the era--including Pudge Heffelfinger (the first certifiable professional), Jim Thorpe, Red Grange, Bronko Nagurski, and Fritz Pollard (the NFL's first black star)--bring the history of the game to life. Peterson also takes us back to the roots of the pro game, showing how professionalism began when some stars for Yale, Harvard, and Princeton took money--under the table, of course--for their services to alma mater. By 1895, the money makers--still unacknowledged--had moved to amateur athletic associations in western Pennsylvania and subsequently into Ohio. After the NFL formed in 1920, pro football's popularity grew gradually but steadily. It burst into national prominence with the Bears-Redskins championship game of 1940. As one sportswriter put it: "The weather was perfect. So were the Bears." The final score was 73-0. Peterson shows how, after World War II, the newly-created All America Football Conference challenged the NFL. Though dominated by a gritty Cleveland team, the AAFC was never viewed by NFL teams as much of a threat. That is, not until 1950 when the two leagues merged, bringing about the Cleveland Browns-Philadelphia Eagles game in which the Browns buried the Eagles 35-10. An elegy to a time when, for many players, the game was at least as important as the money it brought them (which wasn't much), Pigskin takes readers up to the 1958 championship game when the Baltimore Colts beat the New York Giants in overtime. By that time, the great popularity of the game had moved from newspapers and radio to television, and pro football had finally arrived as a major sport.
Shaping College Football
Raymond Schmidt
Author : Raymond Schmidt
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0815608861
Shaping College Football by Raymond Schmidt Pdf
Raymond Schmidt examines the many factors that were a part of college football's reshaping in the 1920s as the universities became dependent upon the revenue being generated by football, and the sport increasingly became identified as a commercialized, big business activity; all of it being played out against a backdrop of struggle between the academic and athletic factions over control of intercollegiate sport's place in the lives of the students and the university community. This is the most detailed examination ever undertaken of college football's "Golden Era," and the topics discussed range from the shift of power away from the game's pioneering schools, through the real evolution of forward passing, to stadium building and the decade-long struggle over the game's growing over-emphasis that culminated in the legendary Carnegie Report of 1929. Including chapters on college football's class-oriented opposition to professional football during the decade, the rise of the sport at the Catholic colleges and the historically Black colleges, and some of the major scandals and disputes involving the universities, Shaping College Football also contributes to the study of sport and culture.
Forward Pass: the Play that Saved Football
Phillip Brooks
Author : Phillip Brooks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:870952395
Forward Pass: the Play that Saved Football by Phillip Brooks Pdf
The Perfect Pass
S. C. Gwynne
Author : S. C. Gwynne
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501116193
The Perfect Pass by S. C. Gwynne Pdf
"New York Times bestselling, award-winning historian S.C. Gwynne tells the incredible story of how Hal Mumme and Mike Leach--two unknown coaches who revolutionized American football in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s--changed the way the game is played at every level, from high school to the NFL"--
FORWARD PASS A STORY OF THE NE
Ralph Henry 1870-1944 Barbour
Author : Ralph Henry 1870-1944 Barbour
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1362534188
FORWARD PASS A STORY OF THE NE by Ralph Henry 1870-1944 Barbour Pdf
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Forward Pass
Thomas J. Dygard
Author : Thomas J. Dygard
Publisher : Puffin Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1990-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0140345620
Forward Pass by Thomas J. Dygard Pdf
Safety is only one of the problems that arise when coach Gardner allows a girl to play on his football team.