Author : Herschel Walker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 38,24 MB
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1416537503
Presents the life of the Heisman trophy winner, discussing his impoverished childhood, his development as a teenage athlete, his college and NFL professional career, his success as a businessman, and his diagnosis and treatment for dissociative identity disorder.
Author : Jeff Prugh
Publisher : Fawcett Books
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 36,79 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780449126226
Traces the life of Herschel Walker from his childhood to his stardom as a football player and describes his athletic achievements
Author : Jim Benagh
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 11,66 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Football players
ISBN :
Tells the life story of football running back Herschel Walker, from his youth in the South up through his years with the Dallas Cowboys and the Minnesota Vikings.
Author : Jeff Pearlman
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 41,1 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0544454383
From a multiple New York Times bestselling author, the rollicking, outrageous, you-can't-make-this-up story of the USFL The United States Football League--known fondly to millions of sports fans as the USFL--was the last football league to not merely challenge the NFL, but cause its owners and executives to collectively shudder. It spanned three seasons, 1983-85. It secured multiple television deals. It drew millions of fans and launched the careers of legends. But then it died beneath the weight of a particularly egotistical and bombastic owner--a New York businessman named Donald J. Trump. The league featured as many as 18 teams, and included such superstars as Steve Young, Jim Kelly, Herschel Walker, Reggie White, Doug Flutie and Mike Rozier. In Football for a Buck, the dogged reporter and biographer Jeff Pearlman draws on more than four hundred interviews to unearth all the salty, untold stories of one of the craziest sports entities to have ever captivated America. From 1980s drug excess to airplane brawls and player-coach punch outs, to backroom business deals, to some of the most enthralling and revolutionary football ever seen, Pearlman transports readers back in time to this crazy, boozy, audacious, unforgettable era of the game. He shows how fortunes were made and lost on the backs of professional athletes and also how, thirty years ago, Trump was a scoundrel and a spoiler. For fans of Terry Pluto's Loose Balls or Jim Bouton's Ball Four and of course Pearlman's own stranger-than-fiction narratives, Football for a Buck is sports as high entertainment--and a cautionary tale of the dangers of ego and excess.
Author : Herschel Walker
Publisher : Main Street Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 37,29 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN :
Three 12-week programs help beginning to advanced athletes achieve the conditioning of an NFL superstar. 175 photos.
Author : Sonny Seiler
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 22,8 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 082034088X
A book with more than 500 photos and images of memorabilia celebrates Uga, the beloved English bulldog mascot of the University of Georgia, and includes engaging anecdotes about all versions of the animal--Uga VI, Uga VII, Uga VIII and Russ, the super sub.
Author : John F. Stegeman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 43,48 MB
Release : 1997-09-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780820319599
Everyone knows about Herschel Walker, but what about George Woodruff, who, in a fogbound game against Sewanee, passed his helmet into their secondary and then handed the ball off to Hafford Hay, who ran untouched into the endzone? Athens is famed for its postgame victory parties, but who can recall the mountainous bonfire in 1910 that, when ignited, blew out every windowpane in three nearby campus buildings? Herty Field, the University of Georgia's first gridiron, is now a parking lot, but the glory lives on in this classic, fast-paced chronicle of Bulldogs football from its beginnings in 1891 to 1916.
Author : Vince Dooley
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 43,47 MB
Release : 2005
Category :
ISBN : 158261766X
From beginning to end, 1981 was a year of unusual drama for the University of Georgia, sprinkled with generous doses of humor. And when it was all done, the 1980 football team had reached a place no Bulldog team had ever gone before. 25 photos.
Author : Robert Suggs
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 36,36 MB
Release : 2009-10-26
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1418585173
Vince Dooley. Herschel Walker. The 1980 National Championship. The names and accomplishments are forever etched in Bulldog folklore. And now, with one of the best coaches in the game, a powerful young running back, and a team stacked with talent, another national title draws within reach. Top Dawg offers the inside scoop on how Georgia seized a place among the college football elite. Packed with stories of incredible victories, heartbreaking defeats, and quiet acts of integrity, author Rob Suggs hits all the highlights of one of the proudest programs in the country. It's time to revisit the incredible story of Georgia's return to the top of the Dawgpile.
Author : Willie Morris
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 17,25 MB
Release : 2011-02-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1617031925
At the time of Marcus Dupree's birth, when Deep South racism was about to crest and shatter against the Civil Rights Movement, Willie Morris journeyed north in a circular transit peculiar to southern writers. His memoir of those years, North Toward Home, became a modern classic. In The Courting of Marcus Dupree he turned again home to Mississippi to write about the small town of Philadelphia and its favorite son, a black high-school quarterback. In Marcus Dupree, Morris found a living emblem of that baroque strain in the American character called "southern." Beginning on the summer practice fields, Morris follows Marcus Dupree through each game of his senior varsity year. He talks with the Dupree family, the college recruiters, the coach and the school principal, some of the teachers and townspeople, and, of course, with the young man himself. As the season progresses and the seventeen-year-old Dupree attracts a degree of national attention to Philadelphia neither known nor endured since "the Troubles" of the early sixties, these conversations take on a wider significance. Willie Morris has created more than a spectator's journal. He writes here of his repatriation to a land and a people who have recovered something that fear and misdirected loyalties had once eclipsed. The result is a fascinating, unusual, and even topical work that tells a story richer than its apparent subject, for it brings the whole of the eighties South, with all its distinctive resonances, to life.
