“Gems and Pfister know enough about American football to realize
that no single person could write a definitive history of the
sport. They’ve used their own vast knowledge of the field of sport
history to recruit a score of talented experts who have produced
what may well be that elusive definitive history. Awesome.” — Allen
Guttmann, Amherst College, author of Sports: The First Five
Millennia and other books, recipient of the first President’s Award
for Sports Studies from the International Olympic Committee
“Touchdown tells the story of the rise and importance of American
football in the USA and beyond. Covering the game from youth to
professional leagues, the role of gender, economics and
globalization. The editors are world leading sport historians and
Gems and Pfister have assembled an all-star cast to deliver a
comprehensive analysis of the USA’s most followed sport. Touchdown
is essential reading for fans and scholars alike.” — John Nauright,
editor of SportsWorld: Global Markets and Impact of Sport
“Two esteemed sports historians bring an academic perspective to
the most popular of American sports. A multi-authored book,
Touchdown is comprehensive, covering football in all it guises –
youth, high school, college, professional, and also exam¬ining all
its warts – social problems, concussions, economic problems.
Particularly interesting is the last section of the book focusing
on American football in other countries. Get this book – you’ll
learn a lot.” — Bill Mallon, MD, past-president and co-founder,
International Society of Olympic Historians
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