Football

Athletic Accomplishment

Athletic Accomplishment

I only needed one word to make it to the wall!!! “You may not know how much you have influenced me, but I can’t thank you enough. Who would have thought that one word could change an average kid into a State Champion. Sometimes passion is all that matters. Thank …

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Clemson’s Dabo Swinney rebukes critics

Dabo Swinney pointing to Heaven

‘They want me to just shut that off and not be a Christian’ By Joshua Needelman – May 6, 2020 Updated May 14, 2020 CLEMSON — Coach Dabo Swinney on Wednesday night pushed back against critics who question the role Christianity plays in the Clemson football program. In April 2014 the Freedom from …

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No matter how hopeless, no matter how far

football practice

We were going through a normal football practice. Drills were crisp, coaches coaching, everyone hustling and working hard to prepare for the upcoming game…when off in the distance, a line of cars was approaching our practice field! The line stopped at the portion of the practice field we named the …

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To Try When Your Arms Are Too Weary

clashing football players - Inspirational football story

This letter was sent to the 1966 Notre Dame Football Team by then-coach Ara Parshegian. Back then we obtained a copy of the Notre Dame playbook and found this letter to the team in the book. The Notre Dame Champion: He looks normal, is so humble he rarely thinks himself …

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To Run Where The Brave Dare Not Go!

man holding football

The Wishbone The wishbone was a college offensive football formation used very successfully by a great number of Division I college football teams back in the early 1970s. It was introduced to the college scene by the backfield coach Emory Bellard at the University of Texas in 1968. When first …

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What is a football player?

football players lined up

Author Unknown Between the innocence of boyhood and the dignity of manhood we find a sturdy creature called a football player! Football players come in assorted weights, heights, jersey colors, and numbers, but all football players have the same creed: to play every minute of every period of every game …

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Searching For Something To Say

High School Football Practice with coach

My 1964 Mercury Comet was moving right along doing 60 on the Schuylkill Expressway, heading toward Haddonfield, New Jersey, from Manayunk, Pa. It was a clear, bright sunny day in May of 1967, with very low humidity and cloudless sky. I was on my way to an interview for the …

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Emotion

Football and sport emotion stories

Emotion and Dopamine could be the secret to motivation! Last night I watched noted speaker Tony Robbins online, and he put a name to that dynamic substance that jumps into your heart and soul and tells you that you have what it takes to get the job done regardless of …

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