Football category: 4223 books
by Paul Wadlington
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
This book is a Texas football preview, a Big 12 season companion and reference guide, and a resource for the entire football season. This publication fills an underserved niche in the market. Like many passionate football fans reading regional or national publications, we realized that we knew much...
Science and Football (Routledge Revivals)
Proceedings of the first World Congress of Science and Football, Liverpool, 13-17th April 1987
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
First published in 1988, this book contains edited and revised papers presented at the first World Congress of Science and Football.
Held under the auspices of the International Council of Sport, Science, and Physical Education, the Congress was a unique gathering of international scientists...
Ask the Old Football Coach
Brilliantly Brainless Advice from the Ghosts of Gridiron Past
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Throwing the flag on long-lost football “wisdom” from legends like Rockne, Heisman, and Camp
Quick-hitting spreads and single-page entries offer points of entry everywhere in the book
Humorous alternative to the advanced statistics and fantasy football analytics
With nearly 200 vintage and...
Games Without Frontiers
Football, Identity and Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
What is the historical appeal of football? How diverse are its players, supporters and institutions throughout the world? What are its various traditions and how are these affected by pressures to modernize? In what ways does the game help to reinforce or overcome social differences and prejudices?...
Digital Football Cultures
Fandom, Identities and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
As the digital revolution continues apace, emergent technologies and means of communication present new challenges and opportunities for the football industry. This is the first book to bring together key contemporary debates at the intersection of football studies, leisure studies, and digital cultural...
Football Goes East
Business, Culture and the People's Game in East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2004
Global popular culture and big business have revolutionised the East in a generation. Football, Sport of the masses and now commercial super power, has travelled with this tide of change in the East in its own right.
The development of football as a major participatory sport in Japan, Korea...
by National Intramural Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA)
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019
NIRSA, the leader in collegiate recreation—with a membership serving over 8 million students—provides the latest rule changes in flag and touch football with its 19th edition of a classic in the field.
The 2019 & 2020 NIRSA Flag & Touch Football Rules Book & Officials' Manual...
by Mike Belter
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
See how the Army college football team was able to win all nine games during the 1914 season. Army decisively played and defeated teams from Rutgers, Colgate, Villanova, Notre Dame, Navy and others. The team was later named by the NCAA as one of three national college football champions for 1914....
Globalised Football
Nations and Migration, the City and the Dream
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
When studying the social phenomena in and around football, five major aspects of globalisation processes become evident: international migration, the global flow of capital, the syncretistic nature of tradition and modernity in contemporary culture, new experiences of time and space and the revolution...
All the Moves I Had
A Football Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Pro Football Hall of Famer Raymond Berry is a true giant of the game. He lacked blazing speed or imposing size, yet he revolutionized the wide receiver position; starred in football’s “Greatest Game Ever Played,” the 1958 NFL Championship; and was part of football’s most legendary pass-catch...
The Early Development of Football
Contemporary Debates
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2019
This fascinating collection brings together leading football historians and sociologists from the UK, Germany, the USA and Australia to offer fresh perspectives on the early development of football (soccer), not only illuminating our understanding of the early history of the world’s most popular...
by Jamie Cleland
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Association football is now the global sport, consumed in various ways by millions of people across the world. Throughout its history, football has been a catalyst as much for social cohesion, unity, excitement and integration as it can be for division, exclusion and discrimination. A Sociology of...
by Mark Ribowsky
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
The story of America’s most sacred and carefully constructed football dynasty is revealed in this unflinching family portrait.
For generations, American athletes have enjoyed the ever-escalating celebrity lavished upon them when they combine on-the-field talent with off-the field charisma,...
Fourth Down and Inches
Concussions and Football's Make-or-Break Moment
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
When the 1905 football season ended, nineteen players were dead and countless others were critically injured. The public was outraged. The game had reached a make-or-break moment—fourth down and inches. Coaches, players, fans, and even the president of the United States had one last chance: change...