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2) Football Books The Defenders and The Gladiators 1973

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2) Football Books The Defenders and The Gladiators 1973
Offered here are two football books from 1973 titled: The Defenders and The Gladiators . Both books are filled with incredible photos and filled with bountiful amounts of information about the game of football. Both books are in very good condition with some minor rips and surface to the cover. The Defenders , by Murray Olderman is a definitive study of the genesis, evolution and modern day application of the defender's role in professional football is an ambitious project. It means drawing on the friendship and cooperation of the men who played a vital part in the emergence of the defense as the greatest factor in winning football. Many of them were, in fact, the defenders who brought preeminence to aspect of the game. The Gladiators , by eight different chapters (different author for each chapter) is a documentary of professional football as it is played in the 1970's. It focuses on men who play football, a special breed that for six months of every year lives with daily pain, and once a week, stakes its pride and reputation in a 60-minute confrontation.