Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : College sports
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
College Football All-time Record Book, 1869-1969
College Football All-time Record Book, 1869-1970
Author: Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1510
Book Description
Official Collegiate Football Record Book
Author: National Collegiate Athletic AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Football
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1950-1977: Title index
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of BibliographyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2258
Book Description
College Football Records
Author: Robert BaldwinPublisher: McFarland & Company Incorporated Pub
ISBN: 9780899502465
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Football at Rutgers
Author: Larry PittThe Library of Congress Main Reading Room Reference Collection Subject Catalog
Author: Library of CongressNative American Son
Author: Kate BufordPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307594297
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 709
Book Description
The first comprehensive biography of the legendary figure who defined excellence in American sports: Jim Thorpe, arguably the greatest all-around athlete the United States has ever seen. With clarity and a fine eye for detail, Kate Buford traces the pivotal moments of Thorpe’s incomparable career: growing up in the tumultuous Indian Territory of Oklahoma; leading the Carlisle Indian Industrial School football team, coached by the renowned “Pop” Warner, to victories against the country’s finest college teams; winning gold medals in the 1912 Olympics pentathlon and decathlon; defining the burgeoning sport of professional football and helping to create what would become the National Football League; and playing long, often successful—and previously unexamined—years in professional baseball. But, at the same time, Buford vividly depicts the difficulties Thorpe faced as a Native American—and a Native American celebrity at that—early in the twentieth century. We also see the infamous loss of his Olympic medals, stripped from him because he had previously played professional baseball, an event that would haunt Thorpe for the rest of his life. We see his struggles with alcoholism and personal misfortune, losing his first child and moving from one failed marriage to the next, coming to distrust many of the hands extended to him. Finally, we learn the details of his vigorous advocacy for Native American rights while he chased a Hollywood career, and the truth behind the supposed reinstatement of his Olympic record in 1982. Here is the story—long overdue and brilliantly told—of a complex, iconoclastic, profoundly talented man whose life encompassed both tragic limitations and truly extraordinary achievements.
Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1658
Book Description