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This is an idyllic chronicle of a three-week-long bicycling holiday in Switzerland in 1896. The author and a companion travelled 1, 000 kilometers around the beautiful Swiss countryside, their experi …

Professional football today is an $8 billion sports entertainment industry–and the most popular spectator sport in America, with designs on expansion across the globe. In this astute field-level vie …

In observing todays football coaching techniques on the high school level, I have noticed that some coaches try to follow college and even pro football coaches sophisticated methods such as elaborate …

Following on from Derek Niven’s first book in the ‘Pride Series’, Pride of the Lions, a genealogical history of the Lisbon Lions, he turns his attention to the great football managers Scotland has pr …

When the Florida Agricultural College in Lake City became the University of Florida and moved south to Gainesville in 1906, it had a very fledgling football team, although worthy opponents were diffi …

When Cramton Bowl was completed in 1922, no one had any idea of the unique place it would occupy in sports history. It was originally conceived as a multi-purpose facility that would focus on basebal …

HEROES OF MORE THAN A FOOTBALL FIELD   Continuing Derek Niven’s popular and successful ‘Pride Series’, Pride of the Hearts tells the fateful and tra …