Books for the Football Fan in Your Life

A football fan knows every season has a story, written in yards, played in points, and told in grit. Our football books celebrate storied teams from the earliest days of football to today. Discover the hidden histories of beloved NFL teams like the Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers and the San Francisco 49ers. Or uncover football’s college origins, Princeton vs. Rutgers in 1869. Or relive epic college rivalries like Carolina vs. Clemson or the 80-year history of USC vs. Notre Dame. As Knute Rockne might have said, “Win one for the giver”, by giving ‘em the gift of great gridiron stories.
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Michigan State Football
Michigan State Football
$24.99
Western Michigan Football
Western Michigan Football
$24.99
The Game
The Game
$24.99
The Little Brown Jug: The Michigan-Minnesota Football Rivalry
The Little Brown Jug: The Michigan-Minnesota Football Rivalry
$24.99
Metro Detroit's High School Football Rivalries
Metro Detroit's High School Football Rivalries
$24.99

Michigan State Football

9780738532141

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Michigan State University's football history is overflowing with famous, interesting, and colorful figures. From Gideon "Charlie" Smith, who in 1913 became one of the nation's first black collegiate players, to George Webster, the "Greatest Spartan of All Time," to Morton Andersen, who still holds the Big Ten record for longest field goal-they are all Spartans. Earl Morrall, Bubba Smith, Lorenzo White... the list goes on. Added to this list of tremendous players are legendary coaches like the "Biggie" Munn and Duffy Dougherty. And who could forget the famous 10-10 tie with Notre Dame in 1966 or the Rose Bowl victory over Southern Cal in 1987?

Spartan tradition is more than the coaches and players on the field, however, and Michigan State Football: They Are Spartans offers many rare images and long-forgotten anecdotes about how the program became a player on the national stage. The early days as a farm college team, the development into a football power as an independent, the successful struggle to join the Big Ten conference, and of course, the historic rivalry with a certain team from Ann Arbor are all recounted in the pages of this book.

Michigan State Football

Western Michigan Football

9780738540887

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From its beginnings as a small teaching college in Kalamazoo to becoming a major program in a state full of major college football programs, Western Michigan University boasts a unique and storied gridiron history. Celebrating 100 years of football action, the Western Michigan University Broncos have faced some of the greatest names in sports, including the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame, the Michigan Wolverines, and their arch nemesis from Central Michigan. Year after year, the Broncos have risen to the challenge. Starting life as the Hilltoppers, Western Michigan University saw many great moments, including a record-setting 62-yard fi eld goal by the legendary George Gipp. The powerful 1922 team went undefeated and unscored upon. As the program grew, they put many celebrated players of their own into national prominence, including Jason Babin, Pro Bowl star John Offerdahl, and Super Bowl player Tom Nutten.
Western Michigan Football

The Game

9781467114585

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Simply known as "The Game," the history of the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry - one of the oldest and, arguably, the fierecest in college football.


With a history that stretches over a century, the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry is one of the oldest in college football. The two teams claim a combined 19 national championships, hundreds of All-Americans, and 10 Heisman Trophies. Each year, millions of Buckeye and Wolverine fans watch the two teams with great disdain for one another battle in late November - usually for an opportunity to win the Big Ten championship.

The Game

The Little Brown Jug: The Michigan-Minnesota Football Rivalry

9781467112734

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When the Michigan Wolverines arrived in Minneapolis to battle the Minnesota Gophers in 1903, a simple 30", five-gallon Red Wing stoneware water jug began football's first rivalry trophy game. The "Little Brown Jug" has been the subject of conspiracy theories, theft, national championships, and most of all pride, with each game's victor prominently displaying the jug on its campus--until it is fought for again.
The Little Brown Jug: The Michigan-Minnesota Football Rivalry

Metro Detroit's High School Football Rivalries

9780738561684

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High school football has been an institution in metro Detroit since the day the assembly line changed America. From the game's inception at the prep level in the early 1900s to the annual Thanksgiving Day games that would make or break a school's season, prep football has been a rite of passage for players, parents, coaches, and fans alike in Detroit since after World War II. Detroit's high schools were massed and assembled from the immigrant pockets that carved out city and suburban landscapes. The one constant in all these cultural melting pots was high school football. For parents and neighbors of the marching bands, cheerleaders, and players, football season in the golden age of high school sports was an all-community event. Towns shuttered and time stopped for nine Fridays in the fall.
Metro Detroit's High School Football Rivalries