Stanford Cardinal

Stanford Cardinal
Author: Alexander Lowe
Publisher: Weigl Publishers
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2019-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1791101003

Did you know that the Stanford Cardinal do not have an official mascot? However, the Stanford Tree, the Stanford marching band’s mascot, is one of the most iconic mascots in college football. Learn more about this college team’s history, traditions, uniforms, team records, coaches, and legendary players in Stanford Cardinal, part of the Inside College Football series.

Rags to Roses

Rags to Roses
Author: Joseph Beyda
Publisher:
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2013
Genre:
ISBN: 9780989655002

ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia

ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia
Author: Espn
Publisher: Espn Books
Total Pages: 1234
Release: 2009
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0345513924

A comprehensive reference provides historical overviews of all 335 Division 1 teams, season-by-season summaries, ESPN/Sagarin rankings of top-selected college basketball programs, and more.

The Cardinal

The Cardinal
Author: June Osborne
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2010-07-22
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0292786131

This informative guide follows a year in the life of the Northern Cardinal with evocative text and gorgeous color photography. Author June Osborne and photographer Barbara Garland capture the beauty and intrigue of this striking songbird. They describe how cardinals stake out territory and choose mates, find a nesting site, and incubate their eggs, feed the young and prepare them for full-fledged independence. The Cardinal also explores the special relationship that humans have with their favorite redbirds. Osborne traces the symbolic use of cardinals as state birds and athletic mascots and shows how they appear on everything from postage stamps to Christmas cards, as well as in fine art, literature, and Native American folklore.

The Anatomy of a Game

The Anatomy of a Game
Author: David M. Nelson
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Total Pages: 610
Release: 1994
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780874134551

"This is the first football history to chronicle year by year how playing rules developed the game. Football - a four-dimensional game of rushing, kicking, forward passing, and backward passing - has had more playing rule changes since its inception than any other sport. The Anatomy of a Game follows football rules from the game's European roots through its beginning in the United States to its position as the number-one spectator sport in the 1990s. Highlighted are details of the crisis years that changed the character of the game, with coaches and rules committee members the featured players. David M. Nelson, who served on the NCAA Rules Committee longer than Walter Camp, provides personal insight into all Rules Committee meetings since 1958, as well as an appendix - chronological and by rule - listing every change since 1876." "Ever since the first two human beings kicked, threw, or batted an object competitively, there have been playing rules. Games are mentioned in the Bible, and the Romans brought football's forerunner to Britain, from where it was exported to the United States. It was in the United States that college students decided to make their game rugby rather than soccer. Although the students invented United States football and made the first rules, their ruling power was eventually lost to the faculty, administrators, coaches, rules committees, and the NCAA." "Beginning as a brutal sport, football survived several crises before and after the turn of the century, eventually becoming respectable. The 1931 injury crisis split the high school and college rules and the same year the professionals went their own way, with rules largely based on spectator appeal." "Today the sport is a national treasure primarily because of its playing rules, over seven hundred in total, which make college football unique among the world's team sports. Moreover, football remains an American game, never having the same impact in other countries as do baseball and basketball." "Rules make the game, but people make the rules. Football survived the major crises that threatened the game because committee members adhered to the precepts that had governed football since its inception. The game began with an attempt to have a consistent code of justice, personal accountability, and equality. In some sense the playing rules are a type of moral precept that explains in the simplest terms what can and cannot be done. The Football Code, which first prefaced the rules in 1916, makes the game - more than any other sport - a moral one because it sets standards for coaching, playing, sportsmanship, and officiating."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved