{"id":1171,"date":"2026-10-13T16:47:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T20:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iterudio.com\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2026-10-13T16:47:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T20:47:50","slug":"football-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iterudio.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/13\/football-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Football books …"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I stumbled across a copy of Building A Championship Football Team<\/a> – which is in the public domain?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The site where I found the HTML tends to be very reliable on only posting material that they have verified as in the public domain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back in 1960 authors were required to include a valid copyright notice and then a renewal at some point – so I have no idea why the 1960 book is in the public domain …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BUT this is the sort of book that was PROBABLY written as a “recruiting tool” of sorts for Alabama football and The University of Alabama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

i.e. Paul Bryant LITERALLY wrote the book on championship football …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul Bryant had built successful programs at Kentucky, Texas A&M, and then at Alabama. He would win his first National Championship a year after the book was published …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gene Stallings gets mentioned in the “Acknowledgment” as being vital to the book’s creation. Mr Stallings would have his own “college hall of fame” level coaching career – winning another National Championship for Alabama in 1992 …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is the book still relevant almost 70 years later?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, rule changes have made a lot of the individual technique coaching points “wrong” – as in “will be a penalty.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BUT the “program building” and overall “strategy” suggestions are still valid …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

… and it is freely available – right click on the link above and “save link as”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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