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The comebacks (DVD)
Lambeau Fields is an out-of-luck coach trying to lead a ragtag team to victory before his long-suffering wife leaves him.
COMEBACKS
DeLuca, Sam. The football playbook.
796.332 DEL [in Adult Non-Fiction]
Fleischer, Jack. Pro football at its best: the greatest games by 15 coaches.
Correspondence originally published as "My Sunday Best".
796.33278 P [in Adult Non-Fiction]
Foehr, Donna Poole. Touchdown! : a guide to understanding and enjoying football.
796.332 F [in Adult Non-Fiction]
The game plan (DVD).
Superstar quarterback Joe Kingman has an ego bigger than a football field, when the 8-year-old daughter he never knew shows up at his pad.
GAME
Gault, William Campbell. Wild Willie, wide receiver.
Skeptical at first about the flashy black rookie receiver on his team, an NFL coach revises his opinion as the team's long struggle toward the Super Bowl.
J GAULT
Holtz, Lou. Wins, losses and lessons; an autobiography.
The man still known as "Coach" reveals what motivated a rail-thin kid with a pronounced speech impediment to become first an athlete, then the ninth-winningest college football coach ever, and ultimately one of the most sought-after motivational speakers in history.
B HOLTZ LOU HOL [in Biographies on the Mezzanine]
Jenkins, A. M. Damage.
Seventeen-year-old football hero Austin, trying to understand the inexplicable depression that has drained his interest in life, thinks that he has found relief in a girl who seems very special.
YA JENKINS
Jenkins, Dan. You call it sports, but I say it's a jungle out there.
The author who pioneered the good ol’ boy style serves up more excerpts from his columns and articles.
796 JEN [in Adult Non-Fiction]
Korman, Gordon. No more dead dogs.
Eighth-grade football hero Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to suggest changes that improve not only the play but his life as well.
J KORMAN
Lombardi, Vince. Vince Lombardi on football.
796.332 L [in Adult Non-Fiction]
Lupica, Mike. Two-minute drill.
Brainy Scott, a great kicker who otherwise struggles with football, and star quarterback Chris, who has dyslexia, team up to help each other succeed in both football and school.
J LUPICA
Lynch, Chris. Inexcusable.
High school senior and football player Keir sets out to enjoy himself on graduation night, but when he attempts to comfort a friend whose date has left her stranded, things go terribly wrong.
YA LYNCH
Murdock, Catherine Gilbert. The off season.
High school junior D.J. balance caring for her injured brother, her responsibilities on the dairy farm, her friend Brian, and her own athletic aspirations.
YA MURDOCK
Plimpton, George. Paper lion.
A 36-year-old rookie journalist goes undercover at the Detroit Lions camp as quarterback wannabe, and stays through a game a month later. What resulted is one of the funniest and most insightful books ever written on the game.
796.3 P [in Adult Non-Fiction]
Possums (VHS)
Mac Davis stars in this feel-good story about a team facing an impossible task with an indominatable spirit, and about the town that gets behind them.
J POSSUMS
Rudy (DVD and VHS)
Rudy has always been told that he was too small to play college football. But he is determined to overcome the odds and fulfill his dream of playing for Notre Dame.
RUDY

Last updated November 22nd, 2011


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