Pro Football Championships Before the Super Bowl
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-4809-8 (ISBN)
While the Super Bowl has become a worldwide cultural event, the annual league championship games had a long history even before the first Super Bowl in January, 1967. From the first American Football League's attempt to settle the league title on the gridiron in 1926 to the separate NFL and AFL championships of the 1965 season, this history offers a narrative of each game, including line-ups, box scores and team statistics.
Joseph S. Page is an organizational development consultant in Nashville, Tennessee. His other works include biographies of former heavyweight boxing champion Primo Carnera and boxing’s first world middleweight champion Nonpareil Jack Dempsey.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments viii
Introduction
1926 AFL—The First Championship Games
1926 AFL—The NFL Challenge
1932 NFL—In from the Snow and the Cold
1933 NFL—Number One
1934 NFL—MVP: Abe Cohen
1935 NFL—The Lions Roar
1936 NFL—The First Neutral Site
1937 NFL—Enter Sammy Baugh
1938 NFL—The Gridiron Sport at Its Primitive Best
1939 NFL—Curley’s Perfect Packers
1940 NFL—The Wrath of the Bears
1941 NFL—Storm Clouds on the Horizon
1942 NFL—The Redskins’ Revenge
1943 NFL—Bronko’s Back!
1944 NFL—A Hidden Jewel
1945 NFL—Of Cold and Crossbars
1946 AAFC—The Browns Take Center Stage
1946 NFL—A Dark Day in Gotham
1947 AAFC—The Browns Repeat
1947 NFL—This One’s for Charlie
1948 AAFC—Perfect
1948 NFL—Snowbirds
1949 AAFC—Four for Four!
1949 NFL—Are You Sure This Isn’t Seattle?
1950 NFL—Look, Elmer, We’ve Got a Ball!
1951 NFL—How to Stop a Freight Train?
1952 NFL—The Lions’ Texas Connections
1953 NFL—The Lions Repeat
1954 NFL—Goodbye, Otto
1955 NFL—Goodbye, Otto ...Again
1956 NFL—Gene Filipski’s Giant Day
1957 NFL—A Long Day in Detroit
1958 NFL—Sudden Death
1959 NFL—A Brilliant Duel in Baltimore
1960 AFL—The George Blanda Show
1960 NFL—Swan Song for the Dutchman
1961 AFL—Blanda Bowl II
1961 NFL—The Pack Is Back
1962 AFL—Sudden Death II
1962 NFL—One That Got Away: Tales of the Wind and Jimmy Taylor
1963 AFL—Keith Lincoln’s Big Day
1963 NFL—One More for Papa Bear
1964 AFL—Jack Kemp’s Revenge
1964 NFL—Ambush by the Lake
1965 AFL—Trampled by a Thundering Herd
1965 NFL—A Win for the Walking Wounded
Professional Football Champions Prior to the 1933 Title Game
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.1.2011 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | notes, bibliography, index |
| Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
| Gewicht | 408 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport |
| Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7864-4809-1 / 0786448091 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7864-4809-8 / 9780786448098 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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