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.

The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game

The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
Author: Michael Lewis
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2007-08-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0393330478

Story of Michael Oher, a rising gridiron star, who was rescued from the ghettos of Memphis and placed with a wealthy family to help develop his football skills.

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.

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.

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.

Football For Dummies

Football For Dummies
Author: Howie Long
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2019-06-12
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1119553008

Are you ready for some football? New stadiums have been built, new stars have been born, and records have been broken since the last edition of Football For Dummies. This new edition is the fan's ultimate, up-to-date guide to all things pigskin. Perfect for new and veteran fans of the sport alike, it covers everything you need to be the most knowledgeable spectator in the stadium. With deep explanations of every position, analysis of offense and defense, and detailed strategies for play, football legend Howie Long and established analyst John Czarnecki present the nuts and bolts of football for fans of all ages and experiences. Tackle football basics and enjoy America’s favorite sport Grasp the rules and regulations, positions, plays, and penalties Appreciate the different aspects of the game at the professional and college levels Learn about the latest NFL stadium technologies Football For Dummies has something to offer fans of all ages, from peewees to the pros and everything between.

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.