Guarding the Quarterback

Guarding the Quarterback
Author: Liz Matis
Publisher: Little Hondo Press
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2016-04-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0990884848

Guarding the Quarterback (Champions of the Heart, Book 1)

Quarterback Walk-on

Quarterback Walk-on
Author: Thomas J. Dygard
Publisher: Puffin Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1989
Genre: Football stories
ISBN: 9780140341157

When the fourth-string quarterback for a Texas college team suddenly finds himself next Saturday's starter, he has a plan for winning.

Complete Offensive Line

Complete Offensive Line
Author: Rick Trickett
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2012-08-21
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1492581321

Developing dominating offensive linemen is Rick Trickett’s specialty. His accomplishments speak for themselves: 4 first-round draft selections, 20 NFL players, 13 All-Americans, and more than 30 all-conference selections. Now with Complete Offensive Line, he’s created the most in-depth guide ever on offensive line play. Today’s linemen must have skill, strength, power, quickness, agility, and intelligence to excel at the position. That is why Complete Offensive Line presents it all—from footwork and hand positioning to pulling and cutbacks. In this one-of-a-kind guide, Trickett takes you onto the practice field and into the trenches to learn these skills, among others: • Pass protection • Run blocking • Man and zone blocking • Combination blocks • Blitz pickup • Recognition of defensive sets such as 4-3, 3-4, and stack • Strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities against any defensive set • Techniques and schemes for formations such as spread, option, and the run and shoot With XX of the most effective drills, skill evaluation, line play assessments, scheme suggestions, and unparalleled coaching advice from one of the best in the game, Complete Offensive Line is simply the definitive book on football’s most demanding position.

Take Your Eye Off the Ball 2.0

Take Your Eye Off the Ball 2.0
Author: Pat Kirwan
Publisher: Triumph Books
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2015-09-15
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1633192946

Renowned NFL analysts' tips to make football more accessible, colorful, and compelling than ever before More and more football fans are watching the NFL each week, but many of them don't know exactly what they should be watching. What does the offense's formation tell you about the play that's about to be run? When a quarterback throws a pass toward the sideline and the wide receiver cuts inside, which player is to blame? Why does a defensive end look like a Hall of Famer one week and a candidate for the practice squad the next? These questions and more are addressed in Take Your Eye Off the Ball 2.0, a book that takes readers deep inside the perpetual chess match between offense and defense. This book provides clear and simple explanations to the intricacies and nuances that affect the outcomes of every NFL game. This updated edition contains recent innovations from the 2015 NFL season.

Defensive Football Strategies

Defensive Football Strategies
Author: American Football Coaches Association
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2000
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780736001427

Winning strategies from 90 top football coaches in the nation comprise this collection of knowledge and insights from many of the best defensive minds of the game. Illustrations.

The USC Trojans Football Encyclopedia

The USC Trojans Football Encyclopedia
Author: Richard J. Shmelter
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2014-04-22
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 147661511X

For more than 120 years, the University of Southern California Trojans have maintained a tradition of football excellence that has placed the team among the perennial elite in the collegiate ranks. Eleven national championships, 38 conference titles, 150 All-Americans, and seven Heisman Trophy winners all stand as testaments to the greatness of the Cardinal and Gold. This definitive reference chronicles the history of USC football from its first-ever game on November 14, 1888--a 16-0 victory over the Alliance Athletic Club--through 2012. Synopses of each season include game-by-game summaries, final records, ultimate poll rankings, and team leaders in major statistical categories. Biographies of head coaches and all-time USC greats, a roster of every player to don a Trojan uniform, a look at USC football traditions, and a catalog of honors received by both players and coaches through the years complete this essential encyclopedia for the Trojan faithful.

Football For Dummies

Football For Dummies
Author: Howie Long
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2011-06-07
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1118012615

Provides an insider's look at the game, discussing such topics as playing fields; equipment; rules; offensive and defensive players; children's, school, and college play.

Asians and Pacific Islanders in American Football

Asians and Pacific Islanders in American Football
Author: Joel S. Franks
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2018-05-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1498560989

This book sheds light on experiences relatively underrepresented in academic and non-academic sport history. It examines how Asian and Pacific Islander peoples used American football to maintain a sense of community while encountering racial exclusion, labor exploitation, and colonialism. Through their participation and spectatorship in American football, Asian and Pacific Islander people crossed treacherous cultural frontiers to construct what sociologist Elijah Anderson has called a cosmopolitan canopy under which Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, and people of diverse racial and ethnic identities interacted with at least a semblance of respect and equity. And perhaps a surprising number of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have excelled in college and even professional football before the 1960s. Finally, acknowledging the impressive influx of elite Pacific Islander gridders who surfaced in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, it is vital to note as well the racialized nativism shadowing the lives of these athletes.