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Tackling Football: Everyone's Guide to Understanding the College Game
Tackling Football: Everyone's Guide to Understanding the College Game
Tackling Football: Everyone's Guide to Understanding the College Game
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"Tackling Football: Everyone’s Guide to Understanding the College Game" provides fans with the basics for understanding a college football game – how it is played, including the various playing positions, and basic offensive and defensive strategies. It includes a close-up look at what happens before, during, and after the game, as well as how to listen to a play-by-play. It is written in a “user-friendly” format and is drawn from our combined years of experience with college football as spectator, player and coach. We feel that few things in sports compare to the excitement of a weekend college football game – from socializing with friends at the pregame tailgating parties to the energy of the crowd cheering their team’s touchdown over a rival. We want others to have that experience and share in our love and appreciation for the game.
Note: This is essentially the same book as our earlier book targeted to women fans, "Tackling Football: A Woman's Guide to Understanding the College Game" - this version has a different color scheme, new introduction, and is designed and marketed for both men and women who want to understand the very basics of the game.

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Release dateDec 26, 2011
ISBN9780983795841
Tackling Football: Everyone's Guide to Understanding the College Game
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Sandra L Caron & J Michael Hodgson

Sandra L. Caron is a Professor of Family Relations and Human Sexuality at the University of Maine. She has been both professionally and personally involved in college athletics. She is a graduate of the University of Maine and Syracuse University. She has served as a member of the University of Maine Athletic Advisory Board for more than a decade, coordinator of the Faculty Liaison Program for the Athletic Department, and director of Athletes for Sexual Responsibility, a nationally recognized peer education program that trains student-athletes to educate others on sexuality issues. Personally, she has been an avid, but average, college football fan for more than three decades. J. Michael Hodgson has more than 30 years of experience with college football, including his role as a player and a football coach for several colleges. He played football for the University of Maine where he was a three-year starter at tight end and also handled place kicking duties. He began his coaching career there, working with tight ends, the offensive line, and running backs before moving to Princeton University as wide receivers coach and the passing game coordinator. He went on to become head coach for Maine Maritime Academy. He was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks/wide receivers coach at Central Connecticut State University, and then served as quarterbacks and receivers coach at Edinboro University in Pennsylvania. Most recently, he was offensive coordinator and running backs/tight ends coach for Dartmouth College.

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    Tackling Football - Sandra L Caron & J Michael Hodgson

    Tackling Football:

    Everyone’s Guide To Understanding The College Game

    Sandra L. Caron & J. Michael Hodgson

    Copyright © 2012 by Sandra L. Caron & J. Michael Hodgson

    ISBN-13 978-0-983795841

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    Table of Contents

    Section I: Introduction

    Section II: Before the Season Begins

    Section III: Before the game

    Section IV: The Game

    Section V: After the Game

    Section VI: Listening to the Game

    About the Authors

    SECTION I: INTRODUCTION

    1. Why we did this book

    Football is one of America's most popular sports. From our exposure to Pop Warner leagues in childhood to our love of high school, collegiate and NFL teams, we have a lifelong connection to the sport. For most people, the connection to the game is as spectators. Others are not only fans, but also participants — players, coaches, officials, commentators, cheerleaders or athletic administrators. There’s no question that expertise about the game comes from first-hand experience with the popular sport.

    Looking specifically at college football, we see millions of people who crowd campus stadiums or watch games on television. Yet our experience shows that some football fans who are not well-versed in the intricacies of the game. Most are avid spectators, but perhaps not knowledgeable, avid football spectators.

    Certainly some fans understand all the ins and outs of the game. With the popularity of college football and its exposure on television — including the play-by-play, color commentary, analysis and in-depth interviews — it would be almost impossible not to learn something from the broadcast. Yet there are fans who do not have a basic understanding of the game. This is not due to a lack of interest. In fact, many college football fans are enthusiastic about the game and want to learn more, but there are few resources available.

    Tackling Football: Everyone's Guide to Understanding the College Game provides fans with the basics for understanding a college football game – how it is played, including the various playing positions, and basic offensive and defensive strategies. It includes a close-up look at what happens before, during, and after the game, as well as how to listen to a play-by-play. It is written in a user-friendly format and is drawn from our

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