Swaim-Paup Sports Series – serie
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Tackling Life and the NFL
Inbunden, 2017
307 kr
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In a quintessentially American game, for an organization often called America’s Team, Dat Nguyen stands as the first player of Vietnamese descent ever to play in the NFL. Yet if asked for his job description, he would probably answer simply, “I tackle.”He earned a scholarship to Texas A&M …
Fifth Ward to Fourth Quarter
Football's Impact on an NFL Player's Body and Soul
Inbunden, 2022
423 kr
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After his release from the Green Bay Packers, realizing that his football career was abruptly over, Delvin Williams asked himself some hard questions: What happened to the game he fell in love with as a kid? What is a retired football player supposed to do? Where did he fit in? Nothing had prepared …
Hole in the Roof
The Dallas Cowboys, Clint Murchison Jr., and the Stadium That Changed American Sports Forever
Av Burk Murchison, Michael Granberry
Inbunden, 2022
364 kr
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In 1966, when the still-young Dallas Cowboys franchise ended six years of agony with their first winning season, the team’s owner and founder, Clint Murchison Jr., son of a billionaire oilman, was feeling ambitious. He believed his team would be good, even special, for years to come. With such …
Handgame of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache
Spirited Competition on the Southern Plains
Inbunden, 2025
566 kr
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The North American handgame has a long lineage, attested in the myth, oral traditions, and archaeological records of Native American people. In The Handgame of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache: Spirited Competition on the Southern Plains, noted scholar William C. Meadows examines the game’s history, …
You Saw Me on the Radio
Recollections and Favorite Calls As the Voice of Aggie Athletics
Av Dave South
Häftad, 2025
352 kr
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For forty-eight years, Dave South was the radio voice of Southwest Conference and Texas A&M University football, basketball, and baseball. Along the way, he amassed a treasure trove of unforgettable stories, anecdotes, and conversations with noteworthy personalities, both on and off the field. In …
Varsity
The Undefeated 1914 Texas Longhorns
Av Charles Kupfer, John H. Keck
Inbunden, 2026
353 kr
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The 1914 Longhorns sprinted to an undefeated 8–0 game differential, yielding only three touchdowns all season and outscoring opponents by a cumulative 358–21 in a record that stood for 91 years. Vanquished foes included schools that would become traditional rivals—Baylor, Rice, and Oklahoma—as well …
Links to the Past
The Hidden History on Texas Golf Courses
Av Dan K. Utley, Stanley O. Graves
Inbunden, 2018
353 kr
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As they tee up, make their approach shots, or line up their putts, few Texan golfers likely realize that the familiar landscapes of tee boxes, fairways, and greens can obscure stories from the past that played out on those same grounds. In Links to the Past: The Hidden History on Texas Golf …
Battle of the Brazos
A Texas Football Rivalry, a Riot, and a Murder
Av T.G. Webb
Inbunden, 2018
334 kr
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During halftime of the October 30, 1926, football game between Baylor University and the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, a massive riot erupted between the two student bodies that resulted in the death of Texas A&M senior cadet Charles Sessums. Though various newspaper articles have …
Dave Campbell's Favorite Texas College Football Stories
Inbunden, 2019
324 kr
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A Texas sports legend, Dave Campbell started his annual fall football preview magazine, Dave Campbell's Texas Football, in 1960. Widely referred to as ""the bible"" by coaches, fans, and sportswriters, the magazine's July arrival in supermarkets, convenience stores, and sporting goods suppliers …
Black Man in the Huddle
Stories from the Integration of Texas Football
Inbunden, 2019
353 kr
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What was it like for young black men growing up in a totally segregated environment and transitioning to an integrated one?" asks author Robert Jacobus in the preface to this collection of interviews. How did they get involved in sports? How did the facilities, both academic and athletic, compare …
Football at Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Texas
Inbunden, 2019
410 kr
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In Texas, football is king," Rob Fink writes, "so it provides a prominent window on Texas culture." In Football at Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Texas, Fink opens this window to afford readers an engaging view of not only the sport and its impact on African Americans in Texas, but …
You Saw Me on the Radio
Recollections and Favorite Calls As the Voice of Aggie Athletics
Av Dave South
Inbunden, 2019
304 kr
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For forty-eight years, Dave South was the radio voice of Southwest Conference and Texas A&M University football, basketball, and baseball. Along the way, he amassed a treasure trove of unforgettable stories, anecdotes, and conversations with noteworthy personalities, both on and off the field. In …
Bebes and the Bear
Gene Stallings, Coach Bryant, and Their 1968 Cotton Bowl Showdown
Inbunden, 2019
304 kr
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No one who has seen the iconic photograph can ever forget its emotional pull: a grinning Gene Stallings, hoisted into the air at midfield in the arms of his lifelong mentor, Paul "Bear" Bryant, moments after the final gun sounded for the 1968 Cotton Bowl. Stallings's upstart Aggies delivered an …
Return to Junction
Smokey and the Bear and Other Aggie Football Stories
Inbunden, 2020
304 kr
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In 1954, a wide-eyed youngster named Gareld Rollins arrived on the campus of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas as a freshman, slated to work as a student manager for the football team. The head coach, who had just arrived at A&M the previous February, was Paul 'Bear' Bryant, who was …
Standing Ready
The Golden Era of Texas Aggie Football and the Beginning of the 12th Man Tradition
Inbunden, 2022
295 kr
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Across America in the wake of World War I, college football entered a time of prominence, often referred to as a “Golden Era.” This same period saw the origins of many beloved traditions of Texas A&M: cadets became known as “Aggies;” the “Aggie War Hymn” penned by J. V. “Pinky” Wilson ’21 was …
Spitter
Baseball's Notorious Gaylord Perry
Av David Vaught
Inbunden, 2022
468 kr
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Gaylord Jackson Perry was born in 1938 as the younger son of a tobacco sharecropper in Martin County, North Carolina. He and his older brother Jim grew up against a background of backbreaking work six days a week in a community that boasted not a single paved road until the 1950s. Their only …
