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All Star Football

by Converse, Lastconverse
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Overview

The ConverseR? All StaTM team scores with this jam-packed book on the basics of football. From warm-up to touchdown, kickoff to completed pass, you'll learn the techniques, the terms, and the teamwork you need to master:
  • The Passing Game
  • The Running Game
  • Blocking
  • Tackling
  • Receiving
  • Punting
  • Place Kicking
  • Offensive Strategies
  • Defensive Lineups
  • Man-to-Man vs. Zone Coverage
  • Game Plans
  • And much more

This fact-filled guide to gridiron glory delivers dazzling action shots, step-by-step diagrams, drills, and games to play with others or on your own. Here's everything you need to be your best at this exciting sport.

Provides detailed instructions on how to play the game, with tips from football star Ricky Watters and coach Tom Osborne.

Synopsis

The ConverseR All StaTM team scores with this jam-packed book on the basics of football. From warm-up to touchdown, kickoff to completed pass, you'll learn the techniques, the terms, and the teamwork you need to master:

  • The Passing Game
  • The Running Game
  • Blocking
  • Tackling
  • Receiving
  • Punting
  • Place Kicking
  • Offensive Strategies
  • Defensive Lineups
  • Man-to-Man vs. Zone Coverage
  • Game Plans
  • And much more

This fact-filled guide to gridiron glory delivers dazzling action shots, step-by-step diagrams, drills, and games to play with others or on your own. Here's everything you need to be your best at this exciting sport.

Children's Literature

Following a brief history of the sport, the rules of the game are described along with techniques and strategies. Part of the "Converse All-Star Sports" series, the step-by-step instructions are easy to follow and separate chapters are included for the field positions of individual players. There are many black and white photographs and diagrams that assist in the explanation of the game. Emphasis is placed on the "team" concept, good sportsmanship, and proper training. The text also offers conditioning drills and ways to practice to help increase skills, question and answer pages with professional players and coaches as well as text blocks of unusual facts about the game.

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Children's Literature - Mary Sue Preissner

Following a brief history of the sport, the rules of the game are described along with techniques and strategies. Part of the "Converse All-Star Sports" series, the step-by-step instructions are easy to follow and separate chapters are included for the field positions of individual players. There are many black and white photographs and diagrams that assist in the explanation of the game. Emphasis is placed on the "team" concept, good sportsmanship, and proper training. The text also offers conditioning drills and ways to practice to help increase skills, question and answer pages with professional players and coaches as well as text blocks of unusual facts about the game.

Book Details

Published
August 1, 1996
Publisher
Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Pages
96
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780471159780

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