Author : Lee W. Thompson
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 17,59 MB
Release : 2013-08-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781490988436
Illustrated Photos 'Over 100 Action Photos'of real time action shown in a year by year AAFC Chronicle 1946 - 1949. The Story told in real time from 1944 - 1950 has been updated and New Stats have been added as well as the All Decade 1940's players and AAFC players in NFL 1950's - 150 pages
Author : Michael MacCambridge
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 40,29 MB
Release : 2008-11-26
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0307481433
It’s difficult to imagine today—when the Super Bowl has virtually become a national holiday and the National Football League is the country’s dominant sports entity—but pro football was once a ramshackle afterthought on the margins of the American sports landscape. In the span of a single generation in postwar America, the game charted an extraordinary rise in popularity, becoming a smartly managed, keenly marketed sports entertainment colossus whose action is ideally suited to television and whose sensibilities perfectly fit the modern age. America’s Game traces pro football’s grand transformation, from the World War II years, when the NFL was fighting for its very existence, to the turbulent 1980s and 1990s, when labor disputes and off-field scandals shook the game to its core, and up to the sport’s present-day preeminence. A thoroughly entertaining account of the entire universe of professional football, from locker room to boardroom, from playing field to press box, this is an essential book for any fan of America’s favorite sport.
Author : Y. A. Tittle
Publisher : Triumph Books (IL)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,59 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781600782107
Before cable television, artificial turf, multimillion-dollar contracts, and Are You Ready for Some Football? pro football players lives were not much different from those of the fans in the bleachers. Back in football's Golden Era, the game they played was much simpler but far tougher than anything seen today. Y.A. Tittle began his career in that simpler era, when players were expected to play both offense and defense and had to hold off-season jobs to make ends meet. Following a stellar career that lasted from 1948 until 1964, he retired from the game at 38 after starring for the Baltimore Colts, the San Francisco 49ers, and the New York Giants. Although he was the quarterback in the 49ers famous million dollar backfield, he is best remembered for his three years in New York and for his willingness to take the field when badly hurt. Y.A. took the Giants to three NFL Championship Games.
Author : Richard Orodenker
Publisher : Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 37,21 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Focuses on nineteenth-century sportswriters and certain writers born after 1930. Discusses the styles of sportswriting employed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Includes information on twentieth-century authors who crossed over from "serious" literature to sportswriting, as well as the history of sportswriting.
Author : Gary Webster
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,27 MB
Release : 2018-11-23
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1476665346
The All-American Football Conference was the only challenger to the NFL (except for the American Football League of the 1960s) to survive more than two seasons in competition with the established league. It ultimately failed to achieve its goal of a peaceful coexistence with the NFL and folded in 1949. Its Cleveland Browns and San Francisco 49ers, which were absorbed by the NFL in 1950, are still in business. This book takes a brief look at all of the NFL's challengers (and would-be challengers) from 1926 to 1945. It looks particularly at the All-American Conference, which overcame obstacles that proved too difficult for others and opened the 1946 season with teams on the East Coast, in the Midwest, on the West Coast, and in the deep South, making it a truly "All-American" enterprise. Each season and off-season is examined in detail.
Author : Robert Peterson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 25,74 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0195076079
Today professional football is America's leading spectator sport, largely because of television. Before the late 1950s, it was a distinctly minor sport.
Author : Craig Ellenport
Publisher : Triumph Books (IL)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,64 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Football
ISBN : 9781629377452
A retrospective of 100 moments in the National Football League's history.
Author : Carole Stivers
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 21,43 MB
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1984806947
What it means to be human—and a mother—is put to the test in Carole Stivers’s debut novel set in a world that is more chilling and precarious than ever. The year is 2049. When a deadly non-viral agent intended for biowarfare spreads out of control, scientists must scramble to ensure the survival of the human race. They turn to their last resort, a plan to place genetically engineered children inside the cocoons of large-scale robots—to be incubated, birthed, and raised by machines. But there is yet one hope of preserving the human order: an intelligence programmed into these machines that renders each unique in its own right—the Mother Code. Kai is born in America’s desert Southwest, his only companion his robotic Mother, Rho-Z. Equipped with the knowledge and motivations of a human mother, Rho-Z raises Kai and teaches him how to survive. But as children like Kai come of age, their Mothers transform too—in ways that were never predicted. And when government survivors decide that the Mothers must be destroyed, Kai is faced with a choice. Will he break the bond he shares with Rho-Z? Or will he fight to save the only parent he has ever known? Set in a future that could be our own, The Mother Code explores what truly makes us human—and the tenuous nature of the boundaries between us and the machines we create.
Author : Jud G. Isebrands
Publisher : CABI
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 43,54 MB
Release : 2014-02-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1780641087
Poplars and willows form an important component of forestry and agricultural systems, providing a wide range of wood and non-wood products. This book synthesizes research on poplars and willows, providing a practical worldwide overview and guide to their basic characteristics, cultivation and use, issues, problems and trends. Prominence is given to environmental benefits and the importance of poplar and willow cultivation in meeting the needs of people and communities, sustainable livelihoods, land use and development.
Author : Mark Beech
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 47,84 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 1328460134
The definitive, lavishly illustrated history of the Green Bay Packers, commemorating the team's 100-year anniversary Not only are the Packers the only fan-owned team in any of North America's major pro sports leagues, but Green Bay -- population 104,057 -- is also the smallest city with a big-time franchise. The Packers are, in other words, unlikely candidates to be pro football's preeminent team. And yet nobody in the NFL has won more championships. The story of Titletown, USA, is the greatest story in sports. Through extensive archival research and unmatched insider access to players and team officials, past and present, Mark Beech tells the first complete rags-to-riches history of the Green Bay Packers, a full chronicle of the most illustrious team in NFL history. The People's Team paints compelling pictures of a franchise, a town, and a fan base. No other team in pro sports is so bound to the place that gave birth to it. Here is the story of the Packers and of Green Bay -- from the days of the French fur traders who settled on the shores of La Baie in the seventeenth century, to the team's pursuit of its fourteenth NFL championship. Featuring essays by Peter King, Chuck Mercein, Austin Murphy, and David S. Neft, The People's Team is a must-have for fans, old and new, and the definitive illustrated history of the most important team in the NFL.
