Thursday Night Lights
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Thursday Night Lights
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Author : Michael Hurd
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2017-10-11
Thursday Night Lights written by Michael Hurd and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-11 with Sports & Recreation categories.
At a time when "Friday night lights" shone only on white high school football games, African American teams across Texas burned up the gridiron on Wednesday and Thursday nights. The segregated high schools in the Prairie View Interscholastic League (the African American counterpart of the University Interscholastic League, which excluded black schools from membership until 1967) created an exciting brand of football that produced hundreds of outstanding players, many of whom became college All-Americans, All-Pros, and Pro Football Hall of Famers, including NFL greats such as "Mean" Joe Green (Temple Dunbar), Otis Taylor (Houston Worthing), Dick "Night Train" Lane (Austin Anderson), Ken Houston (Lufkin Dunbar), and Bubba Smith (Beaumont Charlton-Pollard). Thursday Night Lights tells the inspiring, largely unknown story of African American high school football in Texas. Drawing on interviews, newspaper stories, and memorabilia, Michael Hurd introduces the players, coaches, schools, and towns where African Americans built powerhouse football programs under the PVIL leadership. He covers fifty years (1920–1970) of high school football history, including championship seasons and legendary rivalries such as the annual Turkey Day Classic game between Houston schools Jack Yates and Phillis Wheatley, which drew standing-room-only crowds of up to 40,000, making it the largest prep sports event in postwar America. In telling this story, Hurd explains why the PVIL was necessary, traces its development, and shows how football offered a potent source of pride and ambition in the black community, helping black kids succeed both athletically and educationally in a racist society.
Thursday Night Lights
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Author : Michael Hurd
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2019-02-01
Thursday Night Lights written by Michael Hurd and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-01 with History categories.
Telling an inspiring, largely unknown story, Thursday Night Lights recounts how African American high school football programs produced championship teams and outstanding players during the Jim Crow era.
Friday Night Lights
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Author : H. G. Bissinger
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2005
Friday Night Lights written by H. G. Bissinger and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Football categories.
Return once again to the enduring account of the Permian Panthers of Odessa -- the winningest high school football team in Texas history.
Baseball Under The Lights
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Author : Charlie Bevis
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2021-04-30
Baseball Under The Lights written by Charlie Bevis and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-30 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Night games transformed the business of professional baseball, as the smaller, demographically narrower audiences able to attend daytime games gave way to larger, more diversified crowds of nighttime spectators. Many ball club owners were initially conflicted about artificial lighting and later actually resisted expanding the number of night games during the sport's struggle to balance ballpark attendance and television viewership in the 1950s. This first-ever comprehensive history of night baseball examines the factors, obstacles and trends that shaped this dramatic change in both the minor and major leagues between 1930 and 1990.
Hell Week
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Author : Erik Bertrand Larssen
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2016-06-14
Hell Week written by Erik Bertrand Larssen and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-14 with Self-Help categories.
From world-renowned mental trainer Erik Bertrand Larssen, whose clients include Olympic athletes and Fortune 500 CEOs, Hell Week is a military-inspired yet accessible guide to making the critical changes necessary for long-term professional and personal success and overall lifestyle improvements. Norway native Erik Bertrand Larssen is many things: a veteran paratrooper who served in Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Afghanistan; a successful entrepreneur; and a critically acclaimed performance consultant. He has helped catapult the success of countless high-achievers, including Microsoft, Boston Consulting Group, and Statoil ASA executives and Olympic medalist Martin Johnsrud Sundby and top golfer Suzann Pettersen. His life-altering and revered method improves performance by getting people to push themselves past the brink of self-imposed limitations. Central to his technique is the commitment to live and experience just one week as your best self. It’s this week, Larssen says, that will be the catalyst to making the most of the rest of your life. Offering accessible tools and pragmatic, inspirational advice including how to incorporate exercise into your daily routine, Larssen’s game-changing Hell Week shows you how to apply his principles to everyday life, leading to lasting improvement, personal and professional success, and most importantly, a new way of living to a higher standard. Hell Week will resonate with and inspire you to be the best you can be and make everlasting positive changes in all aspects of your life.
Tuesday Morning Quarterback
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Author : Gregg Easterbrook
language : en
Publisher: Universe Publishing(NY)
Release Date : 2001
Tuesday Morning Quarterback written by Gregg Easterbrook and has been published by Universe Publishing(NY) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Football categories.
Based on the popular football commentary on the e-zine "Slate", this is a collection of haikus, Zen poetry, historical allusions, and other conceits Easterbrook uses to creates fresh commentary on the philosophy of the game. 50 illustrations.
Salt Of The Turf
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Author : Michael Cosgrove
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-08
Salt Of The Turf written by Michael Cosgrove and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08 with Canadian football categories.
Remembering Jim Crow
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Author : William H. Chafe
language : en
Publisher: New Press, The
Release Date : 2014-09-16
Remembering Jim Crow written by William H. Chafe and has been published by New Press, The this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-16 with History categories.
This “viscerally powerful . . . compilation of firsthand accounts of the Jim Crow era” won the Lillian Smith Book Award and the Carey McWilliams Award (Publisher’s Weekly, starred review). Based on interviews collected by the Behind the Veil Oral History Project at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies, this remarkable book presents for the first time the most extensive oral history ever compiled of African American life under segregation. Men and women from all walks of life tell how their most ordinary activities were subjected to profound and unrelenting racial oppression. Yet Remembering Jim Crow is also a testament to how black southerners fought back against systemic racism—building churches and schools, raising children, running businesses, and struggling for respect in a society that denied them the most basic rights. The result is a powerful story of individual and community survival.
Ella S Night Lights
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Author : Lucy Fleming
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-11
Ella S Night Lights written by Lucy Fleming and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
If you look very carefully at the night sky, you might spot a teeny-tiny sparkle out of the corner of your eye, a whisper of a tinkling trail. That's Ella. Ella has always dreamed of seeing the sunrise. But with her delicate gossamer wings, she can only come out at night. So, when the moon is high, she collects as many shimmering beams of light she can find - a twinkle from a star, the glow from a lamp post. With her light, she guides lost and lonely animals and finds friendship in Fox and Owl. And, together, Ella's animal friends know just how to return her kindness.
Friday Night Lives
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Author : Robert Clark
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2020-10-06
Friday Night Lives written by Robert Clark and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-06 with Photography categories.
In 1988, when Robert Clark was in his early twenties, he traveled to Odessa, Texas, to create a visual element for a book about a high school football team. That book was Buzz Bissinger’s Friday Night Lights—the chronicle of a season with the Permian Panthers, one of the state’s winningest teams of all time. About twenty photos appeared in Bissinger’s book, but Clark shot 137 rolls of film during his time with the Panthers. Friday Night Lives collects dozens of the never-before-seen images, taking us back to the team, the city, and that dramatic season. The archival photos, published here on the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Bizzinger's bestseller, capture intimate moments among the players and their families and classmates, as well as the wider world of Odessa. Now the players have grown up. Friday Night Lives also includes Clark’s portraits of key Panthers figures at a later age, documenting complex lives of beauty and struggle. Boobie Miles, the star fullback sidelined by injury, is here, along with Coach Gaines and others. In his heartfelt foreword, best-selling author Hanif Abdurraqib describes how Clark's photos rehumanize the players, reminding us of the truth of their young lives before their stories became nationally known in print, film, and television.