Pigskin Warriors
Title | Pigskin Warriors PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Travers |
Publisher | Taylor Trade Publications |
Pages | 366 |
Release | 2009-10-16 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1589794583 |
From the leather helmet era to the media circus of college football today, Travers presents a carefully researched examination of college football and its role in our society. Photographs complement the text, providing a deep sense of how the sport has evolved, details our obsession with identifying winners, and uses examples of popular culture— the top 8 football movies of all time—to accent the influence this sport has on our culture.
Pigskin Warriors
Title | Pigskin Warriors PDF eBook |
Author | Jackson Volney Scholz |
Publisher | |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 1948 |
Genre | Football stories |
ISBN |
Poems from the Northern Neck
Title | Poems from the Northern Neck PDF eBook |
Author | Gregg Valenzuela |
Publisher | Brandylane Publishers Inc |
Pages | 162 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0983826463 |
The poems in this collection reflect Gregg Valenzuela's passion for the history, rural culture, land and the people of Virginia's Tidewater and Northern Neck. Like his poetry, this singular place reveals a multitude of layers, textures, moods, as well as a rare and unforgettable beauty.
Ball Tales
Title | Ball Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Michelle Nolan |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2014-11-26 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0786458305 |
This history of American sports fiction traces depictions of baseball, basketball and football in works for all age levels from early dime novels through the 1960s. Chapters cover dime novel heroes Frank and Dick Merriwell; the explosion of sports novels before World War II and its influence on the authors who later wrote for baby boom readers; how sports novels persisted during the Great Depression; the rise and decline of sports pulps; why sports comics failed; postwar heroes Chip Hilton and Bronc Burnett; the lack of sports fiction for females; Duane Decker's Blue Sox books; and the classic John R. Tunis novels. Appendices list sports pulp titles and comic books featuring sports fiction.
Boarding School Blues
Title | Boarding School Blues PDF eBook |
Author | Clifford E. Trafzer |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2006-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780803294639 |
An in depth look at boarding schools and their effect on the Native students.
Our Navy, the Standard Publication of the U.S. Navy
Title | Our Navy, the Standard Publication of the U.S. Navy PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 878 |
Release | 1922 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Ducks ...
Title | The Ducks ... PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | |
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