Author: Richard Goldstein
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780788157295
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Celebrates the rich football tradition of the elite universities that pioneered the American college game. Long before college football became a multimillion-dollar enterprise, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, and Yale were battling each other and trading old school yells. Each school's glory days, as well as the sometimes stumbling afternoons in the age of de-emphasis, are brought to life in this captivating and nostalgic text. Magnificently illustrated with 112 vintage photos. "The perfect companion for all of those who love college football and believe that the student-athlete is not a notion of the past."
Author: Mark F. Bernstein
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812236279
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Mark Bernstein shows that much of the culture that surrounds American football, both good and bad, has its roots in the Ivy League. With their long winning streaks, distinctive traditions, and impressive victories, Ivy teams started a national obsession with football in the first decades of the twentieth century that remains alive today. In so doing they have helped develop our ideals about the role of athletics in college life.
Author: Richard Goldstein
Publisher: St Martins Press
ISBN: 9780312146290
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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A study featuring 112 vintage photographs chronicles Ivy League football from past to present, including stories on how Teddy Roosevelt, Cole Porter, John Reed and F. Scott Fitzgerald became part of the tradition of student-athletes.
Author: Frederic Alexander Birmingham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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Author: Patricia Mears
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300170559
Category : ART
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A history of "Ivy Style" in menswear, tracing the origins and diffusion of this enduring and classic fashion
Author: Richard Whittingham
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743222199
Category : College sports
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Chronicles the history of college football from its first games in 1901 through the major tournaments of the twenty-first century.
Author: Echo Brown
Publisher: Christy Ottaviano Books-Henry Holt
ISBN: 9780316310666
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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"A YA coming-of-age novel about a first-year, first-generation Black student at Dartmouth College"--
Author: George Howe Colt
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 1501104799
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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*A New York Times Notable Book* *A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year* From the bestselling National Book Award finalist and author of The Big House comes “a well-blended narrative packed with top-notch reporting and relevance for our own time” (The Boston Globe) about the young athletes who battled in the legendary Harvard-Yale football game of 1968 amidst the sweeping currents of one of the most transformative years in American history. On November 23, 1968, there was a turbulent and memorable football game: the season-ending clash between Harvard and Yale. The final score was 29-29. To some of the players, it was a triumph; to others a tragedy. And to many, the reasons had as much to do with one side’s miraculous comeback in the game’s final forty-two seconds as it did with the months that preceded it, months that witnessed the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy, police brutality at the Democratic National Convention, inner-city riots, campus takeovers, and, looming over everything, the war in Vietnam. George Howe Colt’s The Game is the story of that iconic American year, as seen through the young men who lived it and were changed by it. One player had recently returned from Vietnam. Two were members of the radical antiwar group SDS. There was one NFL prospect who quit to devote his time to black altruism; another who went on to be Pro-Bowler Calvin Hill. There was a guard named Tommy Lee Jones, and fullback who dated a young Meryl Streep. They played side by side and together forged a moment of startling grace in the midst of the storm. “Vibrant, energetic, and beautifully structured” (NPR), this magnificent and intimate work of history is the story of ordinary people in an extraordinary time, and of a country facing issues that we continue to wrestle with to this day. “The Game is the rare sports book that lives up to the claim of so many entrants in this genre: It is the portrait of an era” (The Wall Street Journal).
Author: Kenny Porpora
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1455545155
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Every autumn, Kenny Porpora would watch his heartbroken mother scribble messages on balloons and release them into the sky above Long Island, one for each family member they'd lost to addiction. As the number of balloons grew, his mother fell deeper into alcoholism, drinking away her sorrows every night in front of the television, where her love of Regis Philbin provided a respite from the sadness around her. When their house was foreclosed upon, Kenny's mother absconded with him and his beloved dog and fled for the Arizona desert, joining her heroin-addicted brother on a quixotic search for a better life. What followed was an outlaw adolescence spent in constant upheaval surrounded by bizarre characters and drug-addicted souls. In the wake of unspeakable loss, Kenny convinced a college to take a chance on him, and turned to the mentors, writers, and poets he found to rebuild the family he lost, and eventually graduated from the Ivy League with a new life. Porpora's memoir is the story of a deeply dysfunctional but loving family, and follows his life from the chaos of his youth to his triumphs in the Ivy League. At times darkly comic, at times elegiac, The Autumn Balloon is a beautifully written testament to the irreplaceable bonds of family, even under the most trying circumstances, and one that marks the debut of an exciting new writer.
Author: Yasmine Galenorn
Publisher: Nightqueen Enterprises LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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PLEASE NOTE: I can not sell my revised indie copies of this book in a number of territories owned/covered by the UK, including Australia. This is because of an on-going issue over the rights still outstanding. Whisper Hollow, where spirits walk among the living, and the lake never gives up her dead... Fifteen years ago, I ran away from Whisper Hollow, Washington, a small town on the Olympic Peninsula. But truth is, if you were born here, you can never really leave. I'm Kerris Fellwater and when I returned, I not only inherited my grandmother's house, but her gift. Like her, I must take on the job of spirit shaman. It's my gift-and my curse-to drive the dead back to their graves, because around Whisper Hollow, people-and secrets-don't always stay buried. A trunk hidden in the attic throws my life into chaos. My mother vanished when I was little and I was told she ran away. But now it looks like she was murdered. With the help of Bryan-my mysterious and brooding neighbor-we begin to unravel the mystery of her disappearance, and in doing so, we unearth a dark force seeking to bury Whisper Hollow. Now, I must work with the dead, rather than against them, because our enemy will do whatever she can to destroy the town, and she means to start with me. Keywords: Paranormal, Witches, Faerie, Fae, Fairy, Weres, Shapeshifters, Romance, Paranormal Women’s Fiction, Badass heroine, kickass women, action and adventure, Ghost hunting, cats, ghosts, urban legends, shadow people, Shadow towns, wolf shifters, cat shifters, elemental magic, shapeshifter romance, mystery, strong women, kickass heroine, steamy, Pacific North West, woods, fae creatures, divorce, life change, new life, hometown, hauntings, dark creatures, amazing friendships, family secrets, spells, challenging foes, magical creatures, mythology
