- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Hyperion (Sep 6 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0786867108
- ISBN-13: 978-0786867103
- Product Dimensions: 27.7 x 23.9 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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As the leaves turn to gold, so do thoughts turn from summer games to--you guessed it--football. Perhaps Chris Schenkel said it best: "What a way to spend an autumn afternoon!"
ABC Sports began covering a full season of college football in 1966. Since then many Americans have spent autumn Saturdays gathered around the television listening to Schenkel, Keith Jackson, Bob Griese, Brent Musberger, and more as they call the play-by-play. These broadcasters--along with 25 of their colleagues--made up a blue-ribbon panel to select the greatest college players from 1966 to 1999. The result is ABC Sports College Football All Time All-America Team, a visually stunning, lavishly illustrated book. It opens with two chapters on the history of the game, from the afternoon at Rutgers where football was born to the rise, demise, and resurgence of the two-platoon system and the effect World War II had upon college ball (for example, 31 players took the oath of enlistment into the Naval Air Corps at halftime of the 1942 Cotton Bowl). Then comes the heart of the matter: their picks for the All-America Team, first string, second string, and third string. Number one QB? John Elway. First team RBs? O.J. Simpson, Herschel Walker, and Archie Griffin. Wanna fight about it? Good--debate is welcomed.
Old-schoolers may be put off by the graphically heavy layout (the ESPN generation will love it), but there's plenty of substance behind the style. This book is a handsome addition to the football fan's coffee table. --M. Stein
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Now, with this book fans can find out whos on top as a team of blue ribbon athletes, coaches, and journalists in the field come together to choose their favourites. With the tremendous increasing popularity of college football a devoted and large audience of college football lovers are sure to embrace this book for themselves and give as a gift to friends and family alike.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
The pictures are the only good thing.,
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This review is from: College Football All-Time All-American Team All Time All America Team (Hardcover)
I love Keith Jackson. He's one of the top play by play guys to ever do it if not the best. He should have looked around and done some more homework because he is wrong in a lot of places in this book.I couldn't believe Keith kept with the media favorite Big 10 and Pac 10. Over half of the people on their three all american teams are from this confrence. The favortism is ridiculos. There are also some guys on this team because they were popular with the media. It's a shame they put a lot of guys on this team because of it. This really is a hard book to try to right because of the favorites people have. It's also a hard book to write because of all the players and all the players from the different decades. There are no way guys from the 50's and 60's could stay with the young men who play in college football today. It's hard to make comparisons. The pictures in the book are fantastic. It's pretty easy to find this book cheap and pick it up for the pictures alone. There are some great shots and a lot of the quotes in the book are great. They are the only thing that made me able to stomach this. This book play favorites a lot. It's worth buying for the pictures. Don't buy it to read it. Buy it look at it.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great walk down memory lane for college football fans,
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This review is from: College Football All-Time All-American Team All Time All America Team (Hardcover)
This book is a must-have for the die-hard college football fan. Very well laid-out, lots of good information; and something to interest anyone with an interest in college football. Lots of lists, stories, and pictures. Younger fans will appreciate the perspective from some of the all-time great players, coaches, and broadcasters; and older fans will appreciate the historical soundness of this book. My only nit to pick with this book is that they insisted on mis-spelling ABC analyst Tim Brant's last name (it's not "Brandt") All in all, very well done.
1.0 out of 5 stars
All-Time Football Team After 1966,
By Paul E. Cothran (Palm Bay, FL USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: College Football All-Time All-American Team All Time All America Team (Hardcover)
A listing of great football players and teams from 1966 onward is just the tip of the iceberg. The reviewers have to eliminate such greats as Red Grange, Tom Harmon, Knute Rockne, Jim Thorpe, Don Hutson, Dixie Howell, Johnny Mack Brown, Doc Blanchard, Glenn Davis, Bobby Layne, Harry Gilmer, Vaughn Mancha, Shorty McWilliams, Barney Poole and hundreds more football greats who played the game merely for the love of it. The book is fine for those who think football began in 1966, but for those of us who remember the real greats it leaves a lot to be desired.
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