Football

All the Way to #1
The Story of the Greatest High School Football National Championship Teams of the 20th Century
By Timothy L. Hudak and John R. Pflug Jr.

The 20th century was the defining era of high school football, and during that time a select group of programs across the country solidified their reputations as the nation’s greatest. These programs—with legendary coaches like Paul Brown, Wright Bazemore, Gerry Faust, and Bob Ladouceur—produced national championship teams at schools such as Massillon, Valdosta, Moeller, and De La Salle.But which of these teams was the greatest?All

Home and Away
The Rise and Fall of Professional Football on the Banks of the Ohio, 1919–1934
By Carl M. Becker

A history of semiprofessional football clubs in Ohio—the Ironton Tanks, the Portsmouth Spartans, and others—and an intimate study of how the citizens and organizations that made up these cities worked to put themselves on the map.