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Slingin Sam
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Author : Joe Holley
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2012-10-01
Slingin Sam written by Joe Holley 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 2012-10-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Dan Jenkins calls Baugh "the greatest quarterback who ever lived, college or pro." Even though he played for the Washington Redskins mostly in the pre-TV era (1937-1952), he is still remembered and revered by fans, who consistently name him as the former player they would most like to see back in the game. Baugh was one of the first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. A living link between the leather-helmet era and the modern, Baugh spread the field, opened up the game, and made the forward pass a strategic weapon, not a desperation heave. He made quarterback the glamour position, which means that Peyton Manning, Tony Romo, Tom Brady, and all the other football field generals since Baugh are in his debt"--
Slingin Sam
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Author : Joe Holley
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2012-10-01
Slingin Sam written by Joe Holley 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 2012-10-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Dan Jenkins calls him “the greatest quarterback who ever lived, college or pro.” Slingin’ Sammy Baugh, who played for TCU and the Washington Redskins, single-handedly revolutionized the game of football. While the pros still wore leather helmets and played the game more like rugby, Baugh’s ability to throw the ball with rifle-like accuracy made the forward pass a strategic weapon, not a desperation heave. Like Babe Ruth, who changed the very perception of how baseball is played, Slingin’ Sam transformed the notion of offense in football and how much yardage can be gained through the air. As the first modern quarterback, Baugh led the Redskins to five title games and two NFL championships, while leading the league in passing six times—a record that endures to this day—and in punting four times. In 1943, the triple-threat Baugh also scored a triple crown when he led the league in passing, punting, and interceptions. Slingin’ Sam is the first major biography of this legendary quarterback, one of the first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Joe Holley traces the whole arc of Baugh’s life (1914–2008), from his small-town Texas roots to his college ball success as an All-American at TCU, his brief flirtation with professional baseball, and his stellar career with the Washington Redskins (1937–1952), as well as his later career coaching the New York Titans and Houston Oilers and ranching in West Texas. Through Holley’s vivid descriptions of close-fought games, Baugh comes alive both as the consummate all-around athlete who could play every minute of every game, on both offense and defense, and as an all-around good guy.
Texas Loud Proud And Brash
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Author : Rusty Williams
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2023-08-01
Texas Loud Proud And Brash written by Rusty Williams and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-01 with History categories.
The history of New Texas, the Texas we know today—oil-rich, insufferably loud, and unbearably proud of itself—begins in the late 1920s, when a horned frog wakes from its thirty-one-year nap in a courthouse cornerstone and flabbergasts the nation. In slightly over two decades ten individuals—their words, actions, and accomplishments—come to define the New Texas of the twenty-first century. While the history of Old Texas rests on oft-told legends of Houston, Austin, Travis, Crockett, Rusk, Lamar, and Seguin, today’s New Texas—proud, loud, self-promotional, sports-crazy, and too rich for its own good—is the Texas that percolates throughout the nation’s popular culture. In Texas Loud, Proud, and Brash: How Ten Mavericks Created the Twentieth-Century Lone Star State, author Rusty Williams profiles ten largely unsung men and women responsible for the Texas you love, hate, and (secretly) envy today.
The Nfl S 60 Minute Men
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Author : Chris Willis
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2024-03-15
The Nfl S 60 Minute Men written by Chris Willis and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-15 with Sports & Recreation categories.
In 2019 the NFL celebrated its 100th season. During that historic year the league selected an All-Time Team of 100 former star players. Among them were seven from before football's free substitution rule (1920-1945), two-way players who were skilled at both offense and defense. They were: Sammy Baugh (Quarterback), Dutch Clark (Running Back), Dan Fortmann (Guard), Mel Hein (Center), Cal Hubbard (Tackle), Don Hutson (Wide Receiver) and Bill Hewitt (Defensive End). There were more than just seven great players from those years, when men in leather helmets played multiple positions on dirt fields for modest salaries. This book ranks the NFL's top two-way players, with detailed biographies and analysis by their contemporaries.
The Alcalde
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998-11
The Alcalde written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-11 with categories.
As the magazine of the Texas Exes, The Alcalde has united alumni and friends of The University of Texas at Austin for nearly 100 years. The Alcalde serves as an intellectual crossroads where UT's luminaries - artists, engineers, executives, musicians, attorneys, journalists, lawmakers, and professors among them - meet bimonthly to exchange ideas. Its pages also offer a place for Texas Exes to swap stories and share memories of Austin and their alma mater. The magazine's unique name is Spanish for "mayor" or "chief magistrate"; the nickname of the governor who signed UT into existence was "The Old Alcalde."
Deep In The Heart
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Author : David Casstevens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-12-12
Deep In The Heart written by David Casstevens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-12 with categories.
Deep in the Heart is a collection of stories about Texas people, places and novel events that validate why our state is, to quote its official tourism slogan, "A whole other country." Author and award-winning newspaper columnist David Casstevens traveled around the Lone Star State, searching for unusual and entertaining human interest stories. Like a miner panning for gold he struck it rich outside Rotan during a visit with legendary football star Sam Baugh on his 90th birthday. He found a nugget of joy in 3-year-old Nadia Miller. Born without arms, the child rescued from a Russian orphanage was given a loving home and a new life in North Texas. Born generations, and worlds apart, Slingin' Sam and little Nadia share something in common - a special love for horses.The book takes readers inside the death chamber at the Huntsville State Prison. They can visit the Rattlesnake Roundup in Sweetwater, attend the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and celebrate the crowning of Ms. Quito at the Great Texas Mosquito Festival in Clute. Colorful characters run the gamut, from the Bearded Lady, who once worked at the State Fair midway, to Handsome Hank, the gentle giant who became Fort Worth's most famous longhorn. He travels to a Central Texas turkey farm at Thanksgiving and goes backstage during a wrestling show to meet its star performer, billed as "the baddest midget on the planet." He salutes an elderly bugler devoted to giving fellow veterans the dignified graveside sendoff they deserve.Previously published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, these 38 descriptive and insightful stories reflect the diversity of Texas and touch on themes to which all readers can relate - love, loss, hope, heartache, courage, compassion, patriotism, family and the resiliency of the heart.
1960 Pittsburgh Pirates
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Author : Rick Cushing
language : en
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Release Date : 2010-03
1960 Pittsburgh Pirates written by Rick Cushing and has been published by Dorrance Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03 with Sports & Recreation categories.
The Roger Kahn Reader
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Author : Roger Kahn
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2018-06-01
The Roger Kahn Reader written by Roger Kahn and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
"A rich collection of fifty-one stories and articles by Roger Kahn. Written across six decades, this volume shows Kahn's ability to describe the athletes he profiled as they truly were in a manner neither compromised nor cruel but always authentic and up close"--
The Redskins Encyclopedia
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Author : Michael Richman
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 2009-08-21
The Redskins Encyclopedia written by Michael Richman and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-21 with Sports & Recreation categories.
The definitive history of the Washington Redskins.
Square Root Of A Fallen Arch
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Author : Wayne Loeffler
language : en
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Release Date : 2022-11-03
Square Root Of A Fallen Arch written by Wayne Loeffler and has been published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Square Root of a Fallen Arch is the true story of growing up in old New York, circa 1916""1929. It is based on a collection of written memories and is told from the perspective of its narrator, William Loeffler Jr., whom we meet at six years of age. Thus the book covers the period from just before World War I through the roaring twenties and prohibition, all these providing a continuing reference point throughout the narrative. Square Root of a Fallen Arch is very much a coming of age story. While humorous and immediate, the motif running through the story shows a wistful and touching awareness of slow erosion in the narrator's known world and the emergence of a new, more modem version. It is important to note that William is not quite so sure that this emergence is really progress. Still through by bookend, the city William knew as a young boy is very different place. He's analyzed the reasons and his life (and that of the city) does go on. Therefore, the working title, The Arch in Washington Square Park (with which the book begins and ends), is a symbolic of a world fallen and replaced by another. William's view of life is loving, original, funny, ethnic, poignant, historical, and rich with the lore of New York City. His characters are fully drawn and their circumstances real and vivid, and the pictures his words evoke are of a New York City that literally no longer exists. Mr. Loeffler's wish before dying was to have his memories transformed into a memorial to the city. This is the spirit in which this manuscript is offered.