American Football

In commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of America's most beloved sporting event-the Super Bowl-an authoritative collection of the most pivota...

Blocking for the Gipper, Lawrence Buck Shaw was one of Knute Rockne's star players at Notre Dame during 1919 through 1921. However, it was his ...

Life is hard in Barrow, Alaska. Football mom Cathy Parker first caught a glimpse of this far-away reality from the comfort of her Jacksonville, Flo...

In 1988, when Robert Clark was in his early twenties, he traveled to Odessa, Texas, to create a visual element for a book about a high school footb...

At a time when Friday night lights shone only on white high school football games, African American teams across Texas burned up the gridiron on We...

Born to an Irish Catholic working-class family on the Northside of Pittsburgh, Art Rooney (1901-88) dabbled in semipro baseball and boxing before d...

Whether in football or in the law, Illinois Supreme Court Justice Robert Thomas has always had the best view from the bench. Bob Thomas got his sta...

Upton Bell grew up at the knee of the NFLs first great commissioner, his father, the legendary Bert Bell, who not only saved the game from financia...

The Green Bay Packers are one of the most successful teams in the NFL, with 13 world championships and four Super Bowl wins. Authors Wayne Larrivee...