The Pro Football Historical Abstract

Author : Sean Lahman
Publisher : Globe Pequot
ISBN 13 : 9781592289400
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pro Football Historical Abstract written by Sean Lahman and published by Globe Pequot. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using metrics of his own design, the author ranks the best professional football players of all time by position, along with providing rankings for the greatest coaches of all time.

Author : David S. Neft
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312050894
Total Pages : 1008 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Football Encyclopedia written by David S. Neft and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sports historians Neft and Cohen have created the football counterpart to Macmillan's Baseball Encyclopedia with this collection of rare, never-before-published statistics on the earliest years of organized pro football. Features key historical events from the game's origins in the 1890s through the 1990-91 season and Super Bowl.

Author : Robert Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Illustrated History of Pro Football written by Robert Smith and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard C. Crepeau
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252052463
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book NFL Football written by Richard C. Crepeau and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new NFL Centennial Edition A multi-billion-dollar entertainment empire, the National Football League is a coast-to-coast obsession that borders on religion and dominates our sports-mad culture. But today's NFL also provides a stage for playing out important issues roiling American society. The updated and expanded edition of NFL Football observes the league's centennial by following the NFL into the twenty-first century, where off-the-field concerns compete with touchdowns and goal line stands for headlines. Richard Crepeau delves into the history of the league and breaks down the new era with an in-depth look at the controversies and dramas swirling around pro football today: Tensions between players and Commissioner Roger Goodell over collusion, drug policies, and revenue; The firestorm surrounding Colin Kaepernick and protests of police violence and inequality; Andrew Luck and others choosing early retirement over the threat to their long-term health; Paul Tagliabue's role in covering up information on concussions; The Super Bowl's evolution into a national holiday. Authoritative and up to the minute, NFL Football continues the epic American success story.

Author : Rupert Patrick
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476682879
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Statistical History of Pro Football written by Rupert Patrick and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-03-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the author's 30-year study of football statistics, this book presents new methods for analyzing the game in different ways. An examination of known distances for missed field goals offers an accurate method for evaluating placekickers. Reassessments of punters and running backs are included, along with an overhaul of the NFL's passer rating system. Topics previously unexplored through statistics are covered, such as momentum, defining "What is a dynasty?" and "What is a Cinderella team?"

Author : Joe Horrigan
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 1635653592
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book NFL Century written by Joe Horrigan and published by Crown. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the former executive director of the Pro Football Hall of Fame comes a sweeping and lively history of the National Football League, timed to coincide with the NFL’s 100th anniversary season. “I can think of no one better qualified—or more enthusiastic—to chronicle the National Football League’s century-long history than Joe Horrigan.”—Marv Levy, Hall of Fame NFL coach The NFL has come a long way from its founding in Canton, Ohio, in 1920. In the hundred years since that fateful day, football has become America’s most popular and lucrative professional sport. The former scrappy upstart league that struggled to stay afloat has survived a host of challenges—the Great Depression and World War II, controversies and scandals, battles over labor rights and competition from rival leagues—to produce American icons like Vince Lombardi, Joe Montana, and Tom Brady. It is an extraordinary and entertaining history that could be told only by Joe Horrigan, former executive director of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and perhaps the greatest living historian of the NFL, by drawing upon decades of NFL archives. Compelling, eye-opening, and authoritative, NFL Century is a must-read for NFL fans and anyone who loves the game of football. Advance praise for NFL Century “Joe Horrigan takes the reader on a delightful tour of the seminal moments of the NFL in the past one hundred years—the players, owners, coaches, executives, and historical events that made the game of football the most popular in America. It’s a wonderful walk down memory lane for any football fan, young or old.”—Michael Lombardi, author of Gridiron Genius “There is no one—and I mean no one—who knows more about the history of the NFL than Joe Horrigan, the heart and soul of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. As the gold standard of sports leagues celebrates its one hundredth season, it’s appropriate that the gold standard of sports historians has written NFL Century, an entertaining and educational journey.”—Gary Myers, New York Times bestselling author of Brady vs Manning

Author : Mark L. Ford
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442238917
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of NFL Preseason and Exhibition Games written by Mark L. Ford and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-09-24 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of professional football who thought they had read everything about the history of the game, Mark L. Ford breaks new ground with this account of the NFL preseason. Described as “test labs” by Ford, the preseason games are a time for trying out new strategies, considering future rule changes, and implementing television coverage innovations. For thousands of players who vie for a spot in the league every summer, the preseason is also the defining moment where careers can be made or broken. A History of NFL Preseason and Exhibition Games: 1960 to 1985 is one of two books by Ford on professional football’s preseason. Along with its companion volume—which covers 1986 to 2013—this resource provides information on every NFL and AFL preseason game played since the AFL was launched in 1960. All the interesting events and people that were part of these summer battles are detailed, as well as the first outings for new teams, new rules, and new stars. In addition, Ford includes amusing anecdotes and mishaps, such as a 1972 game that was lost because the players wore the wrong shoes. Throughout the book, Ford recounts key off-season developments that would transform professional football from a modest enterprise into a global monopoly with annual revenues and assets worth billions. A History of NFL Preseason and Exhibition Games is a unique and important reference for pro football fans and cultural historians alike.

Author : John Grasso
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810878577
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Football written by John Grasso and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jerry Roberts
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078649946X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pass Receiving in Early Pro Football written by Jerry Roberts and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big television contracts in the 1960s created the Super Bowl, as well as the 1970 merger of the National Football League with the pass-oriented American Football League. Since then, professional football has been America's most popular televised team sport, developing into a wide-open passing game by the 21st century. Handling the completion side of the aerial game, receivers are not often as celebrated as quarterbacks or coaches, even in the era of San Francisco 49er Jerry Rice's supremacy. This book provides a history of pro pass receiving and its influence on the game prior to the televised era. The author studies pro football's formative and mid-20th century years, highlighting the players who pulled pigskins from flight, like the legendary Don Hutson, Gibby Welch, Johnny Blood, Ray Flaherty, Crazy Legs Hirsch, Mac Speedie, Choo Choo Roberts and many others.

Author : Ivan Urena
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786473517
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pro Football Schedules written by Ivan Urena and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-12-25 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how the NFL determines each team's opponents and how the league's scheduling format has evolved throughout the years. It includes a history on the evolution of the pro football schedule, explores all of the scheduling formulas used in the National Football League, American Football League and the All-America Football Conference, and presents home-and-away opponent charts from 1933 through the 2017 season.