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50 Years of College Football: A Modern History of America's Most Colorful Sport

50 Years of College Football: A Modern History of America's Most Colorful Sport
By Bob Boyles, Paul Guido

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This is a must have for any serious fan of college football. Thoroughly documenting every key moment and statistic from the 1955 season to the 2007 NFL draft, it is simply the most comprehensive encyclopedia of the sport ever written. It’s perfect for fans looking for in-depth information like starting lineups, career statistics, AP Polls, NFL draft lists, and award winners, and has stats organized both by season and team. But, with expert facts and opinions on the game, this guide goes beyond mere number-crunching to get at the heart of collegiate competition. With profiles of the more than 100 stars and coaches, and more than 6,500 recaps of key games, it is a fun read as well as an essential reference.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #219959 in Books
  • Published on: 2007-08
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 1312 pages

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“This book really takes me back to ‘Between the Hedges’ at Georgia, my Bulldog teammates, and our 1960 Orange Bowl victory.” —Fran Tarkenton, College and Pro Football Hall of Famer

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A must-have reference that trounces ESPN5
Fifty Years of College Football is a little-known giant of a book that blows away the competition like the ESPN College Football Encyclopedia. Fifty Years even has a bonus...it actually chronicles 54 football seasons of all the important college teams, and does it in an amazingly detailed style. It supplies information on the top 70 football programs that can be found in very few books of this type.

For example, ESPN's book offers scores of games but otherwise all but ignores the exciting action that took place on the field. For its part, Fifty Years chronicles every important moment in more than 7,000 important college games. ESPN spoons up inconsistent "teams of the century" for each school while Fifty Years taps each major school's best 54 players, arranged as a squad ready to take on the world. Very cool!

ESPN provides a chart of each team's season leader in stats while Fifty Years lists each starting player and many reserves on offense and defense and supplies all the important stats in each season during the modern era since the early 1950s.

Boyles and Guido make football history come alive, and their amazing effort is massive, and an incredible bargain.

50 Years of College Football5
This is the best college football history book I have found. It covers every week since 1953. It has the starting line up of the top 70 college teams for all those years.
It has a year by year wrap up of awards, bowls and polls. It has the All-American teams. You'll never find a book on college football that has the complete history this book contains.
The book settles a lot of arguments.
I purchased this book for many of my friends
The book is well put together and the information is easy to find.

Great stuff4
This book is such a great resource. Year-by-Year it gives team records, awards, NFL drafts. It even gives reports on games! This is a must have for any college football fan