American Football

Was Alabama's Crimson Tide in 2020 the greatest team of all time? The squad went 13-0 in a pandemic year, scored a combined 107 points against SEC ...

On paper, Coach Rob Mendez sounds like any other football coach on any other field across America: passionate, authoritative, knowledgeable. But he...

Robert Mulcahy’s chronicle of his decade leading Rutgers University athletics is an intriguing story about fulfilling a vision.  The goal was to ex...

Freddie Steinmark tells the story of a legendary University of Texas football player whose courage on the field and in battling cancer still inspir...

Women, African Americans, and gays have recently upended US culture with demands for inclusion and respect, while economic changes have transformed...

Big Ten football fans pack gridiron cathedrals that hold up to 100,000 spectators. The conference's fourteen member schools share a broadcast netwo...

In 1926, Harvard athletic director Bill Bingham chose former Crimson All-American Arnold Horween as coach of the university’s moribund football tea...

This book sheds light on experiences relatively underrepresented in academic and non-academic sport history. It examines how Asian and Pacific Isla...

Who comprised the most productive pairs in the history of professional team sports? Joe Montana and Jerry Rice of the San Francisco 49ers? Michael ...

CTE, Media, and the NFL: Framing a Public Health Crisis as a Football Epidemic examines the central role of media in constructing an entangled rela...

The National Football League (NFL) is the most influential, popular, and prosperous professional sports league in America. As such this book focuse...

CTE, Media, and the NFL: Framing a Public Health Crisis as a Football Epidemic examines the central role of media in constructing an entangled rela...

Since the 1970s, a “Polynesian Pipeline” has brought football players from American Sāmoa to Hawaii and the mainland United States to play at the c...

Deion “Coach Prime” Sanders is one of the greatest motivators and inspirational leaders of all time—on the field, in business, with family, and in ...

The American Football League, established in 1960, was innovative both in its commitment to finding talented, overlooked players—particularly those...