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She blogs at Geo Librarian, and a few months ago she reviewed Junior High Nonfiction finalist Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team by Steve Sheinkin:

Honor winners are Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team by Steve Sheinkin (Macmillan / Roaring Brook Press; Listening Library; OverDrive Sample) and Some Writer!

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Liberty University, the private Christian school presided over by president Jerry Falwell Jr., just announced that they are hiring the former Baylor Athletic Director who resigned from his job following an alleged group sexual assault by members of the football team.

SBNation.com's Podcast Ain't Played Nobody (Bill Connelly and Steven Godfrey), Shutdown Fullcast (Spencer Hall, Ryan Nanni, and Jason Kirk), and College Football Recruiting Podcast (Bud Elliott) are joined by podcasts from various team brands (check your school's site as well) and our friends at The Solid Verbal.

Going into Friday's game against Pittston the Bulldogs were 9 - 0 and, in this nation of 12,768 football - playing high schools, the team is ranked No. 1 by USA Today.

I think with the PA budget situation as it is, the University would shoot themselves in the foot if they rebranded the whole school and added those costs just to appease an admittedly hardcore but ultimately small football team fanbase who are THRILLED by merely changing some stickers on a helmet.

As if Glenville, Minnesota doesn't have woe enough over the parlous state of its farm economy, the high school football team had an 0 - 8 season, extending its losing streak to 68, four games from the record held by Iberia (Mo..)

In a season overshadowed by violence, Frederick Douglass's talented high school football team battles on.

By Bill Kolb Contributor Salesian High School's football team now officially knows how it feels...

In 1939, University of Chicago president Robert Maynard Hutchins, exasperated by the destructive influence of big - time football on his campus, announced that his school, then a member of the Big Ten, would no longer field a team.

At every school, the football team is supported by other teams, from the strength staff to academic support to the grounds crew.

Heading into the closing weeks of the last two California high school football seasons, there weren't many certainties except it was pretty obvious that whichever teams were going to play in the CIF Division II State Bowl game, the Northern California team was going to get steamrolled by a very strong Southern California squad.

Amat had come into California's Southern Section Division I championship game against Mater Dei High (from Santa Ana) as the top - ranked team in the nation — unbeaten, untied and unseen by the person who had made Amat No. 1 for most of the season in USA Today's Super 25 national high school football rankings.

This interest does not go unnoticed by school administrators, who not only realize that a good football team can get an entire community excited in ways that a good cross country team, or good wrestling team, will not, but also understand that whatever «school spirit» might be, a good football team will make it better.

ENGAGING TALES OF A FORGOTTEN TEAM In the early years of the 20th century the country's best football team was the Carlisle Indian School, coached by Pop Warner and starring Jim ThoTEAM In the early years of the 20th century the country's best football team was the Carlisle Indian School, coached by Pop Warner and starring Jim Thoteam was the Carlisle Indian School, coached by Pop Warner and starring Jim Thorpe.

A High School Football Player by the name of Appollos Hester gave a fantastic post-game speech after his team came back to win.

So the team that produced what might be college football's best seven - year stretch was playing at one of many schools hurt by the redirection of resources to fight Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.)

Produced and directed by Boston - based visionary youth sports parenting expert and author, Brooke de Lench, and drawing both on her experience as a parent of a concussed high school football and lacrosse player and as the founder and publisher of MomsTEAM.com, the acknowledged «pioneer» in youth sports concussion education, «THE SMARTEST TEAM» documents how de Lench worked with a high school in Newcastle, Oklahoma to address the challenges concussions pose in football.

Modeled on the community - centric approach to improving youth sports safety highlighted in MomsTEAM's PBS documentary, «The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer», the program will award SmartTeam status to youth sports organizations which have demonstrated a commitment to minimizing the risk of physical, psychological and sexual injury to young athletes by implementing a comprehensive set of health and safety best practices, providing safety - conscious sports parents a level of assurance that they have made health and safety an important priority, not to be sacrificed at the altar of team or individual succTeam: Making High School Football Safer», the program will award SmartTeam status to youth sports organizations which have demonstrated a commitment to minimizing the risk of physical, psychological and sexual injury to young athletes by implementing a comprehensive set of health and safety best practices, providing safety - conscious sports parents a level of assurance that they have made health and safety an important priority, not to be sacrificed at the altar of team or individual succteam or individual success.

An African - American boy was reportedly punched in the head by teammates on his high school football team and subjected to hate speech, while game officials and coaches allegedly looked the other way.

Much has been said about the town, it's culture, and it's handling of a disturbing act allegedly carried out by boys on the high school football team who refer to themselves as the «rape crew.»

Produced and directed by visionary youth sports parenting expert and author, Brooke de Lench, and drawing both on her experience as a parent of a concussed high school football and lacrosse player and as the founder and publisher of MomsTEAM.com ®, the acknowledged «pioneer» in youth sports concussion education, «The Smartest Team» documents how de Lench worked with a high school in Newcastle, Oklahoma to address the challenges concussions pose in football.

Through candid interviews of parents, players, the Newcastle High athletic trainer and team doctor, equipment manufacturers, and leading concussion experts, «The Smartest Team» acknowledges the serious challenge concussions pose while showing in easy - to - understand terms how high school football programs can improve player safetyteam doctor, equipment manufacturers, and leading concussion experts, «The Smartest Team» acknowledges the serious challenge concussions pose while showing in easy - to - understand terms how high school football programs can improve player safetyTeam» acknowledges the serious challenge concussions pose while showing in easy - to - understand terms how high school football programs can improve player safety by:

Produced and directed by visionary youth sports parenting expert and author, Brooke de Lench, and drawing both on her experience as a parent of a concussed high school football and lacrosse player and as the founder and publisher of MomsTEAM.com ®, the acknowledged «pioneer» in youth sports concussion education, «The Smartest Team» documents how de Lench worked with a high school in rural Oklahoma to address the challenges concussions pose in football.

«James Abrahamson, an independent consultant hired by NSF,» said that «NEON Inc. was like a high school team trying to tackle a job that requires the skills of the NBA [National Basketball Association] or the NFL [National Football League].

I graduated from High School at ninety eight pounds (scary isn't it) and after spending some serious time in the gym working with my college football team I added eighty five pounds to my frame by the time I graduated four years later.

«Remember the Titans» (2001) Based on the true story of Virginia's first integrated high school football team (led by coach Denzel Washington), the Titans not only change the views of an entire town, but they go undefeated on their way to a thrilling state championship against an all - white team.

Fish - out - of - water high school football coach Jim White (played by sports movie king Kevin Costner) moves with his wife (Maria Bello) and two daughters to the small, Mexican - American migrant worker town of McFarland, CA and decides to start a cross country team at the school after noticing four kids in his gym class who excel at running.

The previous instalments all had a basic structural thing going for them whatever the extent of galloping word bloat: bookended by the beginning and end of the school year, like a disciplined football team they kept their shape.

Denzel Washington stars as a newly appointed African - American coach who must contend with a popular white coach (played by Will Patton), and with the high school football team's first season as a racially integrated unit.

Remember the Titans This movie dramatizes the real events that transpired after an African - American football coach (played by Denzel Washington) is hired to helm a racially integrated high school team during their first year together.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening February 20, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Fired Up (PG - 13 for profanity, sexuality, partying, partial nudity and pervasive crude humor) Teen comedy about a couple of high school's football stars (Eric Christian Olsen and Nicholas D'Agosto) who hatch a plan to spend the summer at a camp filled with gorgeous girls by quitting the team to try out for the cheerleading squad instead.

Sometimes a game is just a game, but for one Alabama town whose high school was leveled by a tornado last year, the football team's success is a testimonial to the community's determination to carry on.

The suit — against the Yonkers, N.Y., school district and state education officials — was brought by a high - school girl who wants to play on her school's football team.

One of many success stories is the fact that one of our partner school's sports pitches are now used every weekend by hundreds of people aged seven and upwards playing for a local football team.

Is it any wonder that high school student athletes beat one another with objects in lineups when the same thing was done by the New Orleans Saints football team — with very little action taken by the National Footballfootball team — with very little action taken by the National FootballFootball League.

The permanent Liverpool site of the Everton Free School and Sixth Form College, an alternative provision and 16 - 19 secondary school, was today officially opened by the manager of Everton Football Club, Roberto Martínez, as well as team player Kevin MirSchool and Sixth Form College, an alternative provision and 16 - 19 secondary school, was today officially opened by the manager of Everton Football Club, Roberto Martínez, as well as team player Kevin Mirschool, was today officially opened by the manager of Everton Football Club, Roberto Martínez, as well as team player Kevin Mirallas.

DRAPER, Utah — Concussions have been a hot topic in the world of football the last few years, and a handful of local high school teams have taken measures to help reduce concussions by using new protective headgear during practices.

«That is true of almost anything that is led by a person — a football team, or a corporation, or a school.

If you saw this holiday season's hit movie The Blind Side, you may think you know all about Michael Oher, the young black man who was taken in by a well - off white family and eventually became a star left tackle on his high school football team, then for Ole Miss, and now for the Baltimore Ravens.

Only a freshman in high school, Maggie Stewart was brutally gang - raped by members of a rival football team.

He has since been contacted by Cenafe football school who have offered him a job at a sports school in Getafe, as he had previously coached a football team in Syria before fleeing the country.

Reached by phone Thursday, Gajus said he created the campaign Wednesday night after hearing that the victims included Aaron Feis, one of the school's football coaches during each of the four years Gajus played on the team.

The primary focus of our team is to assist our junior high, high school and college bound students individually and in groups in their chosen sports (football, volleyball, basketball, wrestling, swimming, cross country, soccer, baseball, and track) and improve their athletic performances by providing, strength, agility, running and endurance regimens specifically to meet their needs.

But during his senior year of high school, his football team, the Apple Valley Eagles, missed the 1991 state championship by one game.