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Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
324 kr
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On January 20, 1968, the University of Houston Cougars upset the UCLA Bruins, ending a 47-game winning streak. Billed as the “Game of the Century,” the defeat of the UCLA hoopsters was witnessed by 52,693 fans and a national television audience—the first-ever regular-season game broadcast nationally.But the game would never have happened if Houston coach Guy Lewis had not recruited two young black men from Louisiana in 1964: Don Chaney and Elvin Hayes. Despite facing hostility both at home and on the road, Chaney and Hayes led the Cougars basketball team to 32 straight victories.Similarly in Cougar football, coach Bill Yeoman recruited Warren McVea in 1964, and by 1967 McVea had helped the Houston gridiron program lead the nation in total offense.Houston Cougars in the 1960s features the first-person accounts of the players, the coaches, and others involved in the integration of collegiate athletics in Houston, telling the gripping story of the visionary coaches, the courageous athletes, and the committed supporters who blazed a trail not only for athletic success but also for racial equality in 1960s Houston.
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
352 kr
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The history of high school football in Texas is replete with stories of the dynastic programs produced, such as the famous Odessa Permian and the "Mojo mystique" from 1965 to 1991, as chronicled in the book, movie, and TV series, Friday Night Lights. But sometimes overlooked, an underdog football program would rise as the unexpected champion for one glorious fall season. In One-Hit Wonders of Texas High School Football, sports historian Robert D. Jacobus profiles eleven schools of varying sizes and from all regions of Texas, beginning with the Kingsville Brahmas in 1958 and ending with Fort Worth's 2003 North Crowley Panthers, one of three schools covered that won a state title after placing as a runner-up in its district.Jacobus analyzes statistics and team qualities that helped pave the way to victories, and in the process, he unveils the behind-the scenes stories of those who played the game. Based on interviews with coaches, players, fans, and others connected with these teams and their once-in-a-lifetime championship runs, One-Hit Wonders of Texas High School Football takes readers on a game-by-game, play-by-play recap of each team's Cinderella season, capturing the building excitement as each week's success led to the almost unbearable anticipation of playing for all the chips in a championship game. This action-packed book provides an entertaining and informative read for Texas high school football fans and more.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
295 kr
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While the story of the reintegration of professional football in 1946 after World War II is a topic that has been covered, there is a little-known aspect of this integration that has not been fully explored.After World War II and up until the mid- to late 1960s, professional football teams scheduled numerous preseason games in the South. Once African American players started dotting the rosters of these teams, they had to face Jim Crow conditions. Early on, black players were barred from playing in some cities. Most encountered segregated accommodations when they stayed in the South. And when African Americans in these southern cities came to see their favorite black players perform, they were relegated to segregated seating conditions.To add to the challenges these African American players and fans endured, professional football gradually started placing franchises in still-segregated cities as early as 1937, culminating with the new AFL placing franchises in Dallas and Houston in 1960. That same year, the NFL followed suit by placing a franchise in Dallas. Now, instead of just visiting a southern city for a day or so to play an exhibition game, African American players that were on the rosters of these southern teams had to live in these still segregated cities. Many of these players, being from the North or West Coast, had never dealt with de jure or even de facto Jim Crow laws.Early on, if these African American players didn’t “toe the line” or fought back (via contract disputes, interracial relationships, requesting better living accommodations in the South, protesting segregated seating, etc.), they were traded, cut, and even blackballed from the league. Eventually, though, as the civil rights movement gained steam in the 1950s and 1960s, African American players were able to protest the conditions in the South with success. Much of what happened in professional football during this time period coincided with or mirrored events in America and the civil rights movement.