Coach George Allen

A Football Life

Lee Elder (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

277 Seiten

2022
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-7500-8 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

How did legendary football coach George Allen (1918-1990) consistently build winning teams at both the college and professional levels? This first full-length biography examines his applied philosophy of coaching through comprehensive coverage of his tenures at the collegiate level. His controversial relationships with team owners are detailed, along with his historic divorce from the Chicago Bears. The two most important plays of Allen's career are analyzed. Appendices provide a list of Allen's NFL trades, his key draft picks, a statistical breakdown of his NFL offenses and a comparison with other top coaches of his era.

Lee Elder is the executive director of the Professional Football Researchers Association, a retired journalist and auto racing publicist and a 2010 inductee into the Imperial Valley High School Football Coaches Hall of Fame. He lives in Tallmadge, Ohio.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Early Years
1. An Electrifying Moment
2. In the Beginning
3. Allen at Morningside
4. The Green Arrow at Whittier
5. An Introduction, a Car Wash and a Return
6. Divorce Chicago Style
The NFL Years
7. The Turnaround: The 1966 Rams
8. Back to the Playoffs: The 1967 Rams
9. Out of the Playoffs and Into the Fire: The 1968 Rams
10. Out of the Fire and Into the Playoffs: The 1969 Rams
11. Lame Duck: The 1970 Rams
12. Ascension: The 1971 Redskins
13. Checking the Angle of the Sun: The 1972 Redskins
14. Chasing the Cowboys: The 1973 Redskins
15. "Follow me to the Super Bowl!": The 1974 Redskins
16. Chasing Dallas: The 1975 Redskins
17. Coping with Quarterbacks: The 1976 Redskins
18. A Contract Offer: The 1977 Redskins
19. Dumped, Hired, Fired Again
The 1980s: Allen's Odyssey
20. Stranger in a Strange Land—Briefly
21. Blitzing and Wrangling with the USFL
22. Long Beach State
Epilogue
Appendix 1: Trades
Appendix 2: Draft Selections
Appendix 3: The Offensive Truth
Appendix 4: Coaching Comparison
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.12.2022
Zusatzinfo	16 photos
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
ISBN-10	1-4766-7500-7 / 1476675007
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-7500-8 / 9781476675008
Zustand	Neuware