Organized into seven chapters: Early Years on the Flats, 1892-1903; The John Heisman Era, 1904-1919; Alexander the Great, 1920-1944; In Dodd We Trust, 1945-1966; Meandering Journey, 1967-1986; Boss Ross, 1987-1991; and A New Buzz, 1992-2007. Profusely illustrated with historic photos and replicas of football memorabilia inserted in a pocket or tipped-in.

Georgia Tech Football Vault: The History of the Yellow Jackets

Sports & Outdoors

Wilkinson, Jack

Football (American)

Whitman Pub Llc

Every year since 1961, football and basketball players at Middlebury College in Vermont pick up their wheelchair-bound fan, Butch, and bring him to the stadium sidelines to watch their games. At John Brown University, the volleyball team distributes candy to fans before each match. For years, fans attending a University of Maryland football game rubbed the bronze statue of their terrapin mascot, Testudo. Traditions like these are visible statements of school loyalty, and they are part of why college sports are unforgettable. College Sports Traditions: Picking Up Butch, Silent Night, and Hundreds of Others details not only the well-known traditions of major universities, but also the obscure customs of smaller schools. Approximately 1,200 traditions are captured, covering almost every college sport. It depicts such traditions as The Ohio State University’s “Script Ohio,” University of Kansas’s “Waving the Wheat,” Linfield College’s “End Zone Couches,” and even a list of traditions that involve streaking. The wide variety of traditions covered in this book are grouped thematically, including: 
<ul>
<li>Before the game</li>
<li>During the game</li>
<li>After a score</li>
<li>After the game </li>
<li>Mascot traditions</li>
<li>Preseason traditions</li>
<li>Traditions probably not university sanctioned</li>
<li>Rivalries</li>
<li>Yells, cheers, and chants</li>
</ul>
 From the crazy and eccentric to the touching and meaningful, these traditions connect fans and athletes across generations. The first of its kind, this comprehensive volume encompasses hundreds of universities and colleges throughout the U.S. Featuring 75 photos that bring many of these events to life, College Sports Traditions will be an entertaining read for every sports fan.

College Sports Traditions: Picking Up Butch, Silent Night, and Hundreds of Others

Reference

Beck, Stan

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Scarecrow Press

Sunset over Craigie House: A Novel About Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Literature & Fiction

Brunswick Pub Co

Sunset over Craigie House: A Novel About Henry W. Longfellow

United States

Spike mosquito and the flying ants (A Spike mosquito adventure series book)

M.H. Books

Eyes Front

Maine Heritage Books

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The most glorious three months in Georgia Tech's football history--from the opening win over North Carolina State to the championship-clinching victory in the Citrus Bowl--are chronicled in this story of a miracle season. Photographs.

Focused on the Top: Georgia Tech's Championship Story

History

Americas

Longstreet Pr

In Tales from the Georgia Tech Sideline, former Georgia Tech star quarterback Kim King shares stories from his unique half-century involvement with Yellow Jackets football. As a child growing up in Atlanta, King watched coach Bobby Dodd's great Tech teams of the 1950s play in historic Grant Field. The Jackets were the team and sporting event in town, a social event on autumn afternoons well before major league professional sports came to Atlanta in the '60s. A highly recruited high school quarterback, King went to Tech and became the star quarterback from 1965-67. "The Young Left-Hander," as late Tech radio announcer Al Ciraldo called King, led the Jackets to two bowl games, including the 1967 Orange Bowl. He was Bobby Dodd's last quarterback and one of Dodd's all-time favorite players. The Hall of Fame coach retired after the 1966 season. King's involvement with Tech football did not end with his graduation. In 1974 he joined Ciraldo in the radio booth as Tech's color commentator. King has seen and called it all for the last three decades. In the book he details Tech's struggles after Dodd's retirement; the colorful and turbulent Pepper Rodgers years; Bill Curry's painful first coaching steps back at his alma mater before restoring Tech to prominence in the mid-'80s; and the two awful seasons Bobby Ross endured before the historic 1990 breakthrough, culminating in Georgia Tech's fourth national championship. Following Bill Lewis's disastrous tenure in the early '90s, George O'Leary revived Tech football yet again before his controversial departure for Notre Dame led to Chan Gailey's arrival on The Flats. King was in frigid Boise, Idaho, last January, when P.J. Daniels ran wild in theHumanitarian Bowl once an overnight snowfall had been plowed from the field. In routing Texas-El Paso, Georgia Tech regained its status as the winningest bowl team in college football. Kim King has seen many of those bowl victories and nearly all of the last 50 years of Tech football. He shares those memories, along with his personal reminiscences of Tech players and coaches, triumphs and travails, in Tales from the Georgia Tech Sideline.

Kim King's Tales From The Georgia Tech Sideline

King, Kim

Sports Pub

Theirs was a prolonged run of excellence like none other in sports history. From 1991 through 2005, the Atlanta Braves won 14 consecutive division championships, a streak no team in professional sports has ever come close to approaching. Not the New York Yankees or the old Boston Celtics. Not Lombardi's Green Bay Packers or Montreal's flying French Canadiens. Beginning with the unexpected worst-to-first miracle of 1991, the Braves commenced an era of sustained dominance that Major League Baseball never saw coming.  Which was more out of the blue? The wondrous run to the '91 pennant, set to the beat of the Tomahawk Chop that become an electrified city's mantra? Or Francisco Cabrera's two-out, two-run single in the bottom of the ninth inning in the '92 NLCS that broke Pittsburgh's heart and returned the Braves to the World Series? It's all here, as well as the memorable pennant chase of '93 and Atlanta's first world championship in 1995.  Captured within these pages are those memories, retold by the players who delivered the Braves to the pinnacle of pro sports, including David Justice, Terry Pendleton, Ron Gant, Lonnie Smith, Jeff Blauser, Greg Olson, and Tom Glavine. But also chronicled in Game of My Life: Atlanta Braves are the franchise's many dark years of mediocrity that set up such a magical run. Dating back to the Braves' move from Milwaukee, this book will catch up with Braves legends like Hank Aaron, Phil Niekro, Bob Horner, and Dale Murphy.  Each player within remembers his Braves career, and, more importantly, that single game that defined greatness for himself and his team. Wrapping things up, we'll also hear from "the Pope of pitching," Leo Mazzone, and two broadcasters with enough baseball under their belts to boast of entrance into the Braves Hall of Fame--Pete Van Wieren and Skip Caray. It all makes for a walk down memory lane that no fan of the Braves will want to miss.

Game Of My Life

Atlanta Braves (baseball Team)

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