Author : Diane Glancy
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 40,60 MB
Release :
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1628158964
An Indian girl overcomes poverty and despair to make something of herself. Suffering from a speech impediment, lacking parental guidance, Flutie nevertheless makes it to college, and hope. By the author of The West Pole.
Author : Doug Flutie
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 27,38 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781583820216
The famous Boston College quarterback, winner of the Heisman Trophy, owner of the record book for quarterbacks in the Canadian Football League, and National Football League All-Pro, recounts his life on and off the field. Doug reveals how he has demonstrated community spirit, charm, and the relentless drive that have been essential to his success as a smaller athlete in a big-man's sport. Includes a look at how Doug led the Buffalo Bills to the playoffs and captured the hearts of fans not only in Buffalo, but across America.
Author : Matt Doeden
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 41,98 MB
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1467703923
Think you know all there is to know about Doug Flutie? Well, did you know that:● He played football in three different professional leagues?● He made the first NFL dropkick play in sixty-four years?● He plays in a rock-and-roll band?Most people said that Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie was too small to play professional football. But Flutie proved the critics wrong during his twenty-year career in the professional leagues. He joined the United States Football League’s New Jersey Generals right after college, but the league folded at the end of Flutie’s first year. In the Canadian Football League, he led his teams to three championships. In the National Football League, he surprised everyone with a string of stellar seasons for teams including the Buffalo Bills and the New England Patriots. Find out how this unlikely hero became a champion.
Author : Ian Thomsen
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 13,32 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
Profiles the college football career of the 1984 Heisman Trophy winner whose sixty-five yard pass clinched a victory for Boston College over Miami in the final seconds of the game.
Author : Megan McCafferty
Publisher : Broadway Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 22,30 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0609807900
Devastated when her best friend moves away, sixteen-year-old Jessica Darling feels isolated at school and at home, as she struggles to deal with her father's obsession with her track meets, her boy-crazy peers, and her own nonexistent love life.
Author : Wally Carew
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 39,82 MB
Release : 2012-09-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 147970251X
It began in November 1896 when football was still in its infancy. About 500 people turned out on a soggy field in Worcester, Massachusetts to watch Holy Cross battler Boston College. That game initiated one of the great rivalries in football history. Itinvolved some of the most famous players and coaches to ever step on a football field. In its 91 years, the rivalry spawned controversy, contention, fierce competitiveness, elation, gloom, and great moments. It was also linked to heart-breaking tragedy. In the end, the rivalry of the two Jesuit colleges, Boston college and Holy Cross, would prove to be a microcosm of intercollegiate sports.
Author : John Grasso
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 11,96 MB
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0810878577
Gridiron football or American football or just plain football is the most popular sport in the United States in the 21st century. Although attempts have been made to develop the sport outside North America, it is still predominantly a North American sport with similar games (but significant rules differences) played in the United States and Canada. The Historical Dictionary of Football covers the history of American football through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on both amateur (collegiate) and professional players, coaches, teams and executives from all eras. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the sport of football.
Author : California (State).
Publisher :
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 17,14 MB
Release :
Category : Law
ISBN :
Author : Ted Kluck
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 49,62 MB
Release : 2015-08-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1442241551
In 1987 the players of the National Football League went on strike, demanding better pay and the right to seek free agency. Determined to keep the league going, team owners pulled replacements from wherever they could be found, from the semi-pro leagues to bar stools, in order to create makeshift teams. For three weeks, “regular” men—truck drivers, school teachers, stockbrokers—were able to put on NFL helmets and jerseys, play in professional stadiums, and live their dreams. The replacements had to dodge thrown food and endure catcalls while they played in nearly empty stadiums, but for three weeks they could call themselves professional football players. Ultimately, the replacements’ days as professional athletes were all but forgotten by fans and the league. Ted Kluck changes that in Three-Week Professionals: Inside the 1987 NFL Players’ Strike, sharing the stories of the replacements alongside the strike experiences of NFL veterans. The innocence and joy experienced by the replacements stand in stark contrast to the high-stakes negotiations being waged by striking NFL players, negotiations that would spike the pay scale and change the face of the NFL. Three-Week Professionals includes original interviews with both the replacement players and the professionals who went on strike, bringing to life these brief but unusual days of football. Football fans and sports historians alike will find this book a fascinating glimpse into three of the strangest weeks in the NFL—and come to realize the impact those weeks had on the world’s most lucrative sports league.
Author : Jerry Thornton
Publisher : University Press of New England
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 15,50 MB
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1512600016
Love them or hate them, what the New England Patriots have been able to do over the past fifteen years is nothing short of remarkable. In addition to their four Super Bowl championships, the Patriots have the best coach in the league, a smart and savvy front office, and a future Hall of Fame quarterback who is internationally recognized as the face of the NFL. The longer the Patriots continue to dominate on the field as well as in the media and the American pop culture landscape, the harder it becomes for anyone to remember them as something other than a model franchise and the ultimate paradigm of success and accomplishment. Anyone, that is, except for Jerry Thornton. It wasn't always sunshine and roses for the Patriots; in fact, for the bulk of their existence, it was exactly the opposite. Though difficult to fathom now, the New England Patriots of old weren't just bad - they were laughably bad. Not so long ago, the Pats were the laughingstock of not only the NFL but also the entire sporting world. From Darkness to Dynasty tells the unlikely history of the New England Patriots as it has never been told before. From their humble beginnings as a team bought with rainy-day money by a man who had no idea what he was doing to the fateful season that saw them win their first Super Bowl, Jerry Thornton shares the wild, humiliating, unbelievable, and wonderful stories that comprised the first forty years of what would ultimately become the most dominant franchise in NFL history. Witty, hilarious, and brutally honest, From Darkness to Dynasty returns to the thrilling, perilous days of yesteryear - a welcome corrective for those who hate the Patriots and a useful reminder for those who love them that all glory is fleeting.
