Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In 2002, Sports Illustrated named Friday Night Lights the fourth-greatest book ever written about sports, and its fourth place position made it the highest rated book focusing on football. [6] In 2015, the book was reissued as a 25th anniversary edition and included a new afterword by Bissinger in which he provided an update on players from ...
Joseph Charles Ehrmann (born March 29, 1949) is an American former professional football player who was a defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) from 1973 through 1982. He played college football for the Syracuse Orangemen and was selected in the first round of the 1973 NFL draft by the Baltimore Colts with the 10th overall pick.
Russell is a past president of the Football Writers Association of America. [29] He was a member of the Heisman Trophy Committee for 46 years [15] and served as the Heisman's Southern chairman for 30 years. [29] He received the Amos Alonzo Stagg Award from the American Football Coaches Association. [33]
Bleachers is a sports novel by John Grisham, first published on September 9, 2003.The hardcover edition was published by Doubleday and the paperback edition by Dell. [1] The book focuses on whether the famous Eddie Rake, former coach of the Messina High School football team, was loved or hated by his former players.
The Cradle of Coaches is a nickname given to Miami University in Oxford, Ohio for its history of producing successful sports coaches, especially in football. Bob Kurz, a former Miami sports communications worker, popularized the term in a 1983 book, though the school's association with the nickname goes as far back as the early 1960s.
He was a two-time All-American, two-time team MVP, two-time All-Conference, and Conference Lineman of the Year. Greco was also nominated for the College Football Hall of Fame. He was also the head coach of the Pattonville High School in Maryland Heights, Missouri varsity football team's first run at the state championship in 2001. He was the ...
David Michael Meggyesy (born November 1, 1941) is a former American football player, author, and union organizer. Meggyesy played college football at Syracuse University, and for the St Louis Cardinals in the National Football League (NFL). [1] Meggyesy wrote Out of Their League (1970), a controversial memoir about his experiences in football ...
William "Chip" Hilton is the central character in a series of 24 sports novels for adolescent boys written by the successful college basketball coach and 1968 Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Clair Bee (1896–1983). In addition to Bee's authorship of the Chip Hilton series, he was also the author of several basketball and coaching technique books.