A History of College Football in Georgia: Glory on the Gridiron
Author: Jon Nelson
Publisher: History Press Library Editions
Published: 2012-08-07
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9781540232021
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jon Nelson
Publisher: History Press Library Editions
Published: 2012-08-07
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9781540232021
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: F. Erik Brooks
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781933483191
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The history of Georgia Southern University's football program stretches back to the early 1900s. Brooks chronicles the guts and glory that built the legendary football program at the university--a program synonymous with championships and athletic excellence.
Author: Robert E. Wilder
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 0881462675
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →¿The ball was round, the equpiment was homemade, and the rules were uncertain, but that game the boys were playing on the lawn at Mercer University in 1892 was football....¿ Thus begins this colorful history of football at Mercer University, 1892-1942. Mercer had only 179 registered students in 1892 when the first Mercer eleven met the first Georgia eleven on the gridiron in Athens in January 1892, the FIRST college football game in the state of Georgia, and one of the first in the Southeast. College football in 1892 was a far cry from the organized splendor it is today. Uniforms were makeshift, with little or no padding. Players begin growing their ¿helmets¿ or ¿head pads¿ in early summer, and rumor has it that those long, bushy manes prompted Mercer¿s nickname--the Bears. It was a rough-and-tumble, disorganized free-for-all on the 110x53 yard field. Touchdowns counted four points; extra points, two; field goals, five; and safeties, two. But all those interesting facts--and many more--are included in this exciting chronicle. For fifty years Mercer played against the the great (Alabama, Army, Georgia, Florida, and others) and the nearly great (Savannah Library Association, Locust Grove Institute, North Georgia Aggies). Alas, college football eventually became a big (and expensive) business, and with the US facing world war, the last Mercer team was fielded in 1941. But, beginning in Fall 2013, the Mercer Bears will once again take the field following a seventy-year hiatus. This time, however, the helmets are much improved.
Author: Fritz P. Hamer
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2009-11-09
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 1614232938
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Medicos, the Purple Hurricane, the Seceders- all South Carolina football mascots that long ago drifted into history. From as early as 1889, college football began to take hold of South Carolina. The fans of the state's first intercollegiate game could hardly have foreseen how it would steadily grow from a competition between amateurs into tightly organized teams with well-paid coaches and demanding alumni, all with a passionate desire to win. This volume goes beyond Clemson and Carolina to trace the history of college teams from all over the state, including Wofford, Furman, SC State, Presbyterian College, Erskine, Claflin, The Citadel, MUSC, the College of Charleston, Newberry College, Benedict College and Allen University. Join museum curator Fritz Hamer and longtime South Carolina high school football coach John Daye as they celebrate the state's most notable coaches, players and rivalries, as well as the many unsung heroes who have helped to make the sport a statewide obsession.
Author: Jon Nelson
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2012-08-07
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 1614236135
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When teams meet on football fields across Georgia, it's more than a game--it's a battle for bragging rights and dominance in a state that prizes football above all other sports. Join seasoned Georgia sports journalist Jon Nelson as he tracks the history of college football statewide. Whether it's Georgia Southern's glory days with legendary coach Erk Russell, the bitter rivalry between Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia, the Mercer College team's historic beginnings or Shorter University's up-and-coming program, every team in Georgia makes the cut in this hard-hitting history. Enhanced by an appendix with each school's records, championship statistics and coaching accomplishments, this is a book no Peach State football fan can do without.
Author: Barry Wilner
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications
Published: 2005-08-17
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1589792777
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Consistantly ranked among the top ten college football rivalries by fans and pundits alike, the annual Army-Navy game is the one rivalry that, as one commentator has noted, stops the most powerful men and women in the world in their tracks for one day a year.
Author: Darrell Woodall
Publisher:
Published: 2017-04-07
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780692859681
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is about the history of football at North Georgia College for the time period of 1902 until 1994. It includes the varsity program as well as the intramural program that consisted of Military ROTC company football teams. NGC had one of the last intramural tackle football programs in the nation. Appendixes include statistical information about each season of the varsity as well as intramural programs. These appendixes also include traditional information about the programs.
Author: Lane Demas
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 0813549973
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the first book devoted to exploring the racial politics of college athletics, examining the history of African Americans on predominantly white college football teams from the 19th century through today.
Author: Jerome V. Reel
Publisher: Clemson University Press
Published: 2023-12-15
Total Pages: 536
ISBN-13: 1638041059
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study shows how Clemson weaves together the three federal charges of land-grant institutions—teaching (specified in the Land Grant Act of 1862), research (the Hatch Act of 1887), and public service (the Smith-Lever Act of 1914)—into a “high seminary of learning.” Clemson students and their lives here are the other major theme of this work. The narrative of this institution traces the people who created it, those who guided it, and the people who lived under its influence and the paths they followed as they left “dear old Clemson.”
Author: Patrick B. Miller
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780252070365
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Engaging a medley of perspectives and methodologies, The Sporting World of the Modern South examines how sports map the social, political, and cultural landscapes of the modern South. In essays on the "backcountry" fighter stereotypes portrayed in modern professional wrestling and the significance of Crimson Tide coaching legend Paul "Bear" Bryant for white Alabamians, contributors explore the symbols that have shaped southern regional identities since the Civil War. Other essays tackle gender and race relations in intercollegiate athletics, uncover the roles athletic competitions played in desegregating the South, and address the popularity of NASCAR in the southern states. Pairing the action and anecdotes of good sports writing with rock-solid scholarship, The Sporting World of the Modern South adds historical and anthropological perspectives to legends and lore from the gridiron to the racetrack. This collection, with its innovative attention to the interplay between athletics and regional identity, is an insightful and compelling contribution to southern and sports history.