Striking Gridiron PDF Download
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Striking Gridiron PDF full book. Access full book title Striking Gridiron by Greg Nichols. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Greg Nichols
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466835346
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Get Book
Book Description
In the midst of a strike and economic uncertainty, a football team from an iconic steel town just outside Pittsburgh set out to capture its sixth straight season without a loss, uniting a region and inspiring the nation. In the summer of 1959, most of the town of Braddock, Pennsylvania--along with half a million steel workers around the country--went on strike in the longest labor stoppage in American history. With no paychecks coming in, the families of Braddock looked to its football team for inspiration. The Braddock Tigers had played for five amazing seasons, a total of 45 games, without a single loss. Heading into the fall of ‘59, this team from just outside Pittsburgh, whose games members of the Steelers would drop by to watch, needed just eight victories to break the national record for consecutive wins. Sports Illustrated and other media descended upon the banks of the Monongahela River to profile the team and its revered head coach, future Hall of Famer Chuck Klausing, who molded his boys into winners while helping to effect the racial integration of his squad. While the townspeople bet their last dollars on the Tigers, young black players like Ray Henderson hoped that the record would be a ticket to college and spare them from life in the mills alongside their fathers. In Striking Gridiron, author Greg Nichols recounts every detail of Braddock's incredible sixth, undefeated season--from the brutal weeks of summer training camp to the season's final play that defined the team's legacy. In the words of Klausing himself, "Greg Nichols couldn't have written it better if he'd been on the sidelines with us." But even more than the story of a triumphant season, Nichols's narrative is an intimate chronicle of small-town America during the hardest of times. Striking Gridiron takes us from the sidelines and stands on game day into the school hallways, onto the street corners, and into the very homes of Braddock to reveal a beleaguered blue-collar town from a bygone era--and the striking workers whose strength was mirrored by the football heroics of steel-town boys on Friday nights and Saturday afternoons.
Author: Greg Nichols
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466835346
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Get Book
Book Description
In the midst of a strike and economic uncertainty, a football team from an iconic steel town just outside Pittsburgh set out to capture its sixth straight season without a loss, uniting a region and inspiring the nation. In the summer of 1959, most of the town of Braddock, Pennsylvania--along with half a million steel workers around the country--went on strike in the longest labor stoppage in American history. With no paychecks coming in, the families of Braddock looked to its football team for inspiration. The Braddock Tigers had played for five amazing seasons, a total of 45 games, without a single loss. Heading into the fall of ‘59, this team from just outside Pittsburgh, whose games members of the Steelers would drop by to watch, needed just eight victories to break the national record for consecutive wins. Sports Illustrated and other media descended upon the banks of the Monongahela River to profile the team and its revered head coach, future Hall of Famer Chuck Klausing, who molded his boys into winners while helping to effect the racial integration of his squad. While the townspeople bet their last dollars on the Tigers, young black players like Ray Henderson hoped that the record would be a ticket to college and spare them from life in the mills alongside their fathers. In Striking Gridiron, author Greg Nichols recounts every detail of Braddock's incredible sixth, undefeated season--from the brutal weeks of summer training camp to the season's final play that defined the team's legacy. In the words of Klausing himself, "Greg Nichols couldn't have written it better if he'd been on the sidelines with us." But even more than the story of a triumphant season, Nichols's narrative is an intimate chronicle of small-town America during the hardest of times. Striking Gridiron takes us from the sidelines and stands on game day into the school hallways, onto the street corners, and into the very homes of Braddock to reveal a beleaguered blue-collar town from a bygone era--and the striking workers whose strength was mirrored by the football heroics of steel-town boys on Friday nights and Saturday afternoons.
Author: Herbert Reed
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Football
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Get Book
Book Description
Author: Tom Palmer
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141932856
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Get Book
Book Description
Yunis can't believe that he's United leading scorer. It should be the happiest time of his life, but his father wants him to give up football and work hard at school. Can Yunis convince his dad that he can do both, or will he have to hang up his boots forever? Stay on the ball this season with all the action from Football Academy.
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earth sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Get Book
Book Description
Author: Harvard University. Dept. of mineralogy and petrography
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Get Book
Book Description
Author: Irving P. Fox
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Advertising
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Get Book
Book Description
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Get Book
Book Description
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freemasonry
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Get Book
Book Description
Author: Irving P. Fox
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pharmacy
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Get Book
Book Description
Author: Mac Davis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780448039329
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Get Book
Book Description
Brief biographies of coaches, players, trailblazers, innovators, record setters--all football immortals.