Total Football II

by Carroll, Bob; Gershman, Michael; Neft, David; Thorn, John; Silverman, Matthew; Elias Sports Bureau

• ISBN13: 9780062701749
• ISBN10: 0062701746
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-07-16
• Publisher: COLLINS

Summary

<B><I></I><P align=center>Total Football II Offers in a Single Volume The Complete History of Professional Football.</P></B><P>Here are the most complete statistics for each of the nearly 18,000 players who&rsquo;ve played in even a single NFL game. You'll find essays on the history of the game, its championship teams, most significant games, and greatest players--along with the legend, lore and mystique of football. </P><P>The official encyclopedia of the National Football League, <I>Total Football II</I> includes:</P><DIR><P><LI>articles on the evolution of strategy through the years <P></P><P></P><LI>histories of every team past and present <P></P><P></P><LI>biographies of the NFL's 300 greatest players <P></P><P></P><LI>football families <P></P><P></P><LI>the most complete lists ever published of team rosters, awards, and the NFL draft <P></P><P></P><LI>and more. <P></P></LI></DIR><P>New to this completely revised and updated edition are a host of new articles, covering an eclectic range of football-related topics, from offensive formations to football at the movies.</P><P>This nearly inexhaustible wealth of gridiron material was provided by the NFL staff, the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and the Pro Football Researchers Association, as well as by the game's foremost writers and historians. </P><P>The heart of <I>Total Football</I> is the Player Register with statistics provided by the Elias Sports Bureau, the NFL's official statistician since 1961, Bob Carroll and David Neft. For more than 30 years, Carroll and Neft have collected information on players, birthdates and places, high schools, and colleges attended. For <I>Total Football</I> they supplemented their research by contacting hundreds of former players and more than 400 colleges and universities.</P><P>If it's about football, you'll find it within these pages, the book that <I>Pro Football Weekly</I> and other experts have called "the best football book ever"</P><P> </P>

Table of Contents

Dedication	iii
Acknowledgments	vii
PART ONE
Introduction	1	(4)
I. The History
Pro Football Before the NFL	5	(9)
Beau Riffenburgh
The History of the National Football League	14	(20)
Jack Clary
Tools of the Trade	34	(5)
Beau Riffenburgh
Team Histories: NFC Teams	39	(29)
Jim J. Campbell
Team Histories: AFC Teams	68	(31)
Ed Gruver
Team Histories: Defunct Franchises	99	(11)
Joe Horrigan
The Road to the Super Bowl and Super Sunday	110	(68)
Ted Brock
Bob Carroll
Michael Gershman
Matthew Silverman
Championships & Playoffs	178	(85)
Beau Riffenburgh
The 25 Most Memorable Regular Season Games	263	(16)
Jack Clary
II. Men Who Made the Game
The 300 Greatest Players Plus	279	(88)
Bob Carroll
Jim J. Campbell
Jack Clary
Pete Fierle
Matthew Silverman
Don Smith
The 30 Greatest Coaches	367	(11)
Jim J. Campbell
David Fischer
Movers and Shakers	378	(7)
Jim Gigliotti
III. Annual Awards
Pro Football Hall of Fame	385	(2)
David Pietrusza
John Hogrogian
Awards and Honors	387	(5)
John Hogrogian
All-Pro Selections	392	(41)
The Pro Bowl	433	(26)
Beau Riffenburgh
IV. Strategy: The Inside Game
The Evolution of Strategy	459	(15)
Kevin Lamb
The Playbook	474	(17)
Rick Korch
The West Coast Offense	491	(4)
Ted Brock
Quarterbacks: A History	495	(6)
Beau Riffenburgh
What Makes Quarterbacks Great	501	(8)
Beau Riffenburgh
V. The Game Off the Field
Blitzing the English Language	509	(2)
Ted Brock
The NFL on TV	511	(3)
Tom Barnidge
Super Bowl Commercials	514	(3)
Phil Barber
Three Reels and a Cloud of Dust	517	(6)
Bob Carroll
VI. Other Leagues
The Early AFLs	523	(4)
Rick Korch
The All-America Football Conference	527	(4)
Phil Barber
The World Football League, 1974-75	531	(3)
Ray Didinger
The United States Football League	534	(4)
John Hogrogian
NFL Europe	538	(5)
Rick Korch
PART TWO
VII. The Register, Rosters, and Leaders
The Player Register	543	(900)
The Draft	1443	(76)
Jim J. Campbell
Beau Riffenburgh
Joel Bussert
Bob Carroll
Draft Day Surprises	1519	(2)
Beau Riffenburgh
Colleges That Produced The Pros	1521	(30)
Team Rosters	1551	(95)
The Annual Record	1646	(62)
The All-Time Leaders	1708	(14)
Lifetime Leaders	1708	(12)
Single Season Leaders	1720	(2)
The Head Coaches Register	1722	(87)
Bob Carroll
Pete Fierle
David Neft
VIII. Appendixes
Famous Pro Football Firsts	1745	(1)
Michael Gershman
Game Scores 1920--1998	1746	(43)
Paul Bennett
Bob Carroll
Pete Fierle
John Hogrogian
David Neft
Pete Palmer
Football Quotations	1789	(2)
Bob Carroll
Michael Gershman
Special Teams	1791	(2)
Ted Brock
Life in the Trenches	1793	(2)
Phil Barber
Quarterbacks: A History	1795	(7)
Beau Riffenburgh
Quarterbacks on the Run	1802	(3)
Beau Riffenburgh
The Great Receivers	1805	(4)
Beau Riffenburgh
Notes on Contributors	1809	(3)
Team/League Abbreviations	1812