football teams

Sean Porter was a football player who turned into a juvenile detention counselor. He wrestles with the seemingly insolvable problem. The vast majority of young men who leave detention fall right back into crime. Looking for a way to give these not-yet-hardened kids a taste of self-esteem and discipline, Porter manages to persuade his superiors to let him teach the kids football - and then take on other high school football teams. Based on a true story.

Gail and her friends investigate when the football team's lucky falcon goes missing.

"The Los Angeles Leopards and the Portland Pioneers, the two newest franchises in the National Football League, are on a collision course toward greatness. Both teams have overcome the bumps and hard knocks of expansion teams, and now they are poised to compete for the Super Bowl Championship. One team is led by take-no-prisoners head coach Randy Dolbermeier, who will do anything to bring a title home to his Hollywood owner, Cedric B. Medill. The other team is led by the cerebral, steady Bobby Russell, who is cast into the spotlight under the worst of circumstances. And one honorable reporter - Mel Herbert of the Los Angeles Guardian - knows some secrets that could change everything."--front flyleaf.

Dramatizes the efforts of coach Jack Lengyel to rebuild the football program at West Virginia's Marshall University after thirty-seven team members, coaches, and others were killed in an airplane crash in November 1970.