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21) Gustavus athletics: a century of building the Gustie tradition, 1880-1980

Author

Hollingsworth, Lloyd

Pub. Date

1984

Physical Desc

x, 399 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Language

English

22) Intercollegiate athletics and the American university: a university president's perspective

Author

Duderstadt, James J

Pub. Date

2000

Physical Desc

xvi, 331 pages : photographs ; 24 cm

Language

English

23) College football's greatest

Publisher

Liberty Street, an imprint of Time Inc. Books

Pub. Date

[2016]

Physical Desc

256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 34 cm

Language

English

Description

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Any college football fan, no matter where they live now or where their college loyalty lies has opinions about the game. Now, SI's team of experts once and for all settles the questions college football fans have debated since the first kickoff in College Football's Greatest. For instance, which is the greatest program of all time, Alabama or Notre Dame? What about Ohio State? Where do Tim Tebow and Peyton Manning rank among the best college quarterbacks?...

24) The system: the glory and scandal of big-time college football

Author

Benedict, Jeff

Publisher

Doubleday

Pub. Date

[2013]

Lexile measure

980L

Physical Desc

ix, 416 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Language

English

Description

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A revelatory account based on the authors' unprecedented access to the NCAA's highest-level programs throughout the 2012 season describes its high-powered system of billion-dollar television deals, high-priced coaches, football "hostessing," castoff athlete-students and paid test takers.

25) Bowled over: big-time college football from the sixties to the BCS era

Author

Oriard, Michael

Pub. Date

2009

Physical Desc

334 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Language

English

26) Pass to play: student athletes and academics

Author

Lapchick, Richard Edward

Series

Analysis and action

Pub. Date

1989

Physical Desc

47 pages ; 23 cm.

Language

English

27) Gopher glory: 100 years of University of Minnesota basketball

Publisher

Layers Publishing

Pub. Date

[1995]

Physical Desc

ix, 182 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm

Language

English

Description

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Offers the 100 year history of the basketball at the University of Minnesota (1895-1995).

28) Blood, sweat and cheers: great football rivalries of the Big Ten

Author

Mishler, Todd

Pub. Date

2007

Physical Desc

vii, 198 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Language

English

29) Unsportsmanlike conduct: exploiting college athletes

Author

Byers, Walter

Pub. Date

1995

Physical Desc

413 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Language

English

30) Foul play

Author

Dixon, Franklin W

Series

Hardy boys undercover brothers volume 19

Pub. Date

2007

Edition

1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.

Physical Desc

184 pages ; 20 cm.

Language

English

Description

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Frank and Joe investigate rumors that someone involved with Pinnacle College's top-seeded football team is being bribed to throw the championship game.

31) Maroon & gold forever: celebrating 125 years of Gopher football

Author

Bernstein, Ross

Pub. Date

2009

Edition

1st ed.

Physical Desc

120 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm

Language

English

32) Scoreboard, baby: a story of college football, crime, and complicity

Author

Armstrong, Ken

Pub. Date

2010

Lexile measure

860L

Physical Desc

xiii, 374 pages : illustrations photographs ; 22 cm

Language

English

Description

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Go behind the scenes of the 2000 Huskies' Cinderella story to discover a timeless morality tale about the price of obsession, the creep of fanaticism, and the ways in which a community can lose even when its team wins.

33) The rise of gridiron university: higher education's uneasy alliance with big-time football

Author

Ingrassia, Brian M

Series

Culture America

Pub. Date

2012

Physical Desc

xiii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Language

English

Description

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Offers the most incisive account to date of the origins of college football, tracing the sport's evolution from a gentlemen's pastime to a multi-million dollar enterprise that made athletics a permanent fixture on our nation's campuses and cemented college football's place in American culture.

34) The back roads to March: the unsung, unheralded, and unknown heroes of a college basketball season

Author

Feinstein, John

Publisher

Doubleday

Pub. Date

[2020]

Edition

First edition.

Physical Desc

xii, 416 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Language

English

Description

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"John Feinstein has already taken readers into the inner circles of top college basketball programs in The Legends Club. This time, Feinstein pulls back the curtain on college basketball's lesser-known Cinderella stories -- the smaller programs who no one expects to win, who have no chance of attracting the most coveted high school recruits, who rarely send their players on to the NBA. Feinstein follows a handful of players, coaches, and schools who...

35) Breaking the line: the season in Black college football that transformed the sport and changed the course of civil rights

Author

Freedman, Samuel G

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Pub. Date

2013.

Physical Desc

xii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Language

English

Description

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Looks at the 1967 football season leading up to that year's black college championship between Grambling College and Florida A&M, and how it fit into the civil rights struggles of the time.