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Review: College Football - History - Spectacle - Controversy
The legend of early college football goes as follows: In 1905, there were many injuries and several deaths heavily related to the use of the flying wedge. Teddy Roosevelt stepped in and told the footb...
Review: Don't Flinch - Barry Alvarez: The Autobiography
I like reading coach's books. If you're reading a coach's autobiography you can be sure that he was successful. Reading stories about successful people won't make you successful in itself, but you cer...
"We Are Marshall" And "The Marshall Story" - Hollywood vs Reality
I reviewed the book "The Marshall Story" several months ago. The book tells the story of Marshall football, including the 1970 plane crash that killed 75 people, including the football team, coachin...
Review: Football's Second Season - Scouting High School Game Breakers
If you've followed Corn Nation much, you'd know that I don't follow recruiting very closely. I don't have a lot of faith in recruiting service rankings and there are too many things that can happen to...
Review: Meat Market - Inside the Smash-Mouth World of College Football Recruiting
In "Meat Market - Inside the Smash-Mouth World of College Football Recruiting", Bruce Feldman takes you inside the insanity that is college recruiting while simultaneously taking you inside crazy Caju...
Review: Heart of A Husker - Tom Osborne's Nebraska Legacy
Finally a book about Nebraska football! There aren't a lot of new releases coming out about Nebraska football these days, probably because there hasn't been a lot to write about with the new regime be...
USC Week: A Brief History of USC Football
We could analyze the Wake Forest game, but I'm not going to do that. All that matters is we went on the road and came out with a tough victory. USC's 1888 Team It's USC week, and in order to ...
Nazi Influence on Football?
Football has often been compared with war, which is especially noticeable when it comes to terminology. Touchdown passes are called bombs, the linemen are "in the trenches", quarterbacks are "field ge...
Review: Dixieland Delight: A Football Season on the Road in the Southeastern Conference
Today's Book Review is provided by fellow Husker blogger Brandon Vogel of Hi-Plains Drifter:I have a theory about the SEC when it comes to relative conference strength: college football fans would be ...
Wonders Never Cease - I Agree With Al Davis
There's not a lot happening. You know that. I know that. It's the calm before the storm, so enjoy it. I'm going to be taking a small boy on a Scouting adventure tomorrow and Saturday, so I won't be po...
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