| 单词 | football |
| 例句 | I dropped my football laundry bag inside and headed straight for the phone. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z Just as he was used to football injuries, he was also used to lavish attention, as was every former Permian player who had once been ordained a star. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The story may have been apocryphal, but it was also true that Permian football benefited from desegregation. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z No football player could fail to recognize what I was experiencing right then. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z The team had moved to Civic Field, a high school football stadium. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Keeps us in shape during football season, and it turns out girls around here really dig male cheerleaders. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z That girl, she doesn’t even get the dream of the football captain. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z These days it seemed ridiculous, as the life she described was becoming more and more of a fantasy—trips to the mall, family vacations, and Friday night football games. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “What’s more important—football and your marks or the lousy chocolate sale?” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He let out a cheer, like a football fan after a decisive touchdown. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “We don’t have to have any contact with them, except on the Permian football team. It’s the only place in Odessa where people interact at all with blacks.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z What would it feel like, I wondered, when we finally got to go somewhere without the guy carrying the nuclear football? Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “They couldn’t throw in 1 Sports Illustrated. What do they have against basketball and football? And what about boxing? Did you know that’s called the sweet science?” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “It was gerrymandering over football,” said Gomez, who had not been in the least surprised. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Often, Ben had watched Jim Don walking the halls of school escorted by Ansley and a school of pilot fish mainly composed of third string football players. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nobody wants a trainer. You want a football player.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He heard vague announcements related to football, homecoming, the Associated Student Body, and other things that didn’t concern him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I saw football players and cheerleaders and Student Council types spread out all over the room. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He was lucky, but he always knew in the back of his mind that if he failed in football it didn’t really matter anyway. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s just another football team to me now. It’s got a win-ning tradition. It’s got good players. But I got other things to do besides football and getting people psyched up. . . .” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Near the banks of a green river was a horse corral the size of a football field. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The next day I watched, along with many others, as his father's helicopter circled the air above Fullbrook again, hovering with its deafening noise and menace, and descended slowly to the football field. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z They were Gaines’s words, but they could have come from any high school coach renewing the ritual of sport, the ritual of high school football. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She said she didn’t want to join a sorority but was looking forward to the football games. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z One day, she led us outside to the football field. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Our football team will win the championship this year. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z From her decorated desk to her oratorical speech to her performance on the football field, she was there for all to see. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z He wore a football jersey and blue jeans under his work apron. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Others of us thought one of the boys on the football team was putting the wood to her on the sly, and Forrest Evers wasn’t the only one trying to take credit for it. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “It would be nice to have a brother. Someone to play football with.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z We played red-light- green-light, tag, football, Red Rover, or nameless games that involved running hard, keeping up with the pack, and not crying if you fell down. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “I still look the part. Everybody says, ‘You play football, right?’” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z I knew the football boys would accuse me of holding hands with Quentin if any one of them had seen it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The star of the football team knew her name. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He said that unlike football matches where he could charge admission to the games, there was no precedent for charging admission to the Academic Bowl. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Because of such an attitude, Permian had established itself as perhaps the most successful football dynasty in the country—pro, college, or high school. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z An eighth grader in a football jersey lurches against my side, and I mumble an apology a split second after he’s gone. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “They always tell us that in football practice. It slows down the flow of the blood, especially if you can raise it higher than your heart.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “I have to be at the high school at four o’clock. I have a meeting. I figured you could watch the football team practice. OK?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We passed a football practice for kids who couldn’t have been older than ten. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Several of them wore dark green visors over their helmets, a new equipment feature that served no obvious purpose other than to make football players look more menacing and killerlike than they already did. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “And you know I’m not really into football. Besides, I’ve already checked—that ball is only valued at two hundred and fifty dollars.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z We picked up other football kids along the way. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z Her other hand was holding my football laundry bag, as far out in front of her as her arm could reach. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z “Still thinks he’s the great football player. Well, I could’ve played, but I had to work, picking coal at the tipple after school.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She unclipped herself and reached up with both her hands and touched her thumbs together, and made football goalposts around Quendy’s face. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They played basketball and baseball outside and football video games in the house—sitting on the floor or couch, with controllers in their hands. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “Cap has never played football. You could have put him in the hospital!” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Unlike football bowls, there had been no season tallies for the academic teams. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z He was being excused a few minutes early so he wouldn’t be a second late for football practice. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I got pulled to my feet by a couple of football players who dragged me under the bleachers and into the coach’s office. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Matt borrowed his friends football jersey, and his friend wore Matts soccer shirt. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Brad’s parents sent him to rehabilitation because Brad’s father didn’t want him to miss his chance at a football scholarship. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z They could summon us down in our pyjamas at night-time and thrash us for leaving just one football sock on the floor of the changing-room when it should have been hung up on a peg. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z But he was a high school football player. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The last Wilson versus Mount Pitts football game I went to, I was fourteen and Dad and I took Charlie with us. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z He wanted to be a dad, he really did—I’m sure he daydreamed about kicking a football around in the garden with his son, or carrying his daughter on his shoulders in the park. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He ran for the Chevalier, as if he were to tackle him at football. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “I do love that book. The movie, too. But it’s not only because I’m Indian, you know? Like, do you like every movie that’s about football?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Many of the children from the flats were playing football in the compound. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Nothing happened until six, when the two Sports Family boys drove in in their jeep, unloaded their football gear, and carried it into the house. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z I had no interest in football or basketball but had learned it was best to pretend otherwise. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “The football identity is so glorious,” he said. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They valued football every bit as much as Permian did, perhaps even more if that was possible, and they had become imbued with a power every bit as special as the Mojo mystique. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I wasn’t even good at them, but give me a football and an empty playground and I could invent last-second triumphs that would bring tears to your eyes. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I took his hand as he told me about the ambulance pulling away from the football field. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Except for the football boys, our audience was festive. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Mark has a twinkle in his eye like Chicho, but he is twice as tall and used to be a football player when he was in college. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Madame Hoo, a quicker student than the dressmaker, had learned more words: partner, money, house, tree, road, pots, pans, okay, football, good, rain, spareribs. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z More paranoia, he chided himself, trudging along the pathway that led from the football field to the gym. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z This time, when we went to play soccer/non-American football, I knew to pack a towel. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “Mojo football, it helps you survive all this sand, the wind, the heat. I wouldn’t live any other place.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z On the football field I don’t run around people, I run through them. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z On Sundays, he graded papers and watched football with Tommy while she went to T.J.Maxx and shopped for clothes. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Girls, even cheerleaders, don’t know anything about football. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z “My dad believes all boys want to play football—I guess everyone has their thing. Hold still. I have an idea.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z It seemed wrong, like those football players who finally retire and have to face that first Sunday at home, watching on TV, thinking, I could still do that. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z As a result, Ken Hankins’s suffering in the football stands seemed destined to continue. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Arthur told me about a guy who showed up at football practice looking for a fight. He didn’t belong up there. He was just looking for trouble. Am I right, Arthur?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He eased a yellow football jersey over my head and began tucking my hair under a matching helmet. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z The pair made their way eastward between the basketball pavilion and the horseshoe-shaped excavation that served as the campus football stadium. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z There were also glimpses of his finding the game of football a difficult struggle. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z We sit on the hill overlooking the football field, wearing our jeans, which are only allowed at school on the days of football games. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z In high school, she struggled in the adolescent competition for boyfriends in a world of football games and proms, a world where her looks were plainly uncommon. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Hades rose from his throne, towering to the height of a football goalpost. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Mine's to clean between the studs on my football boots. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I won thirty dollars in the football pool. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The passage comes in the play after the football coach has shown the mother the sex tape and she confronts her son—a person she no longer recognizes. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z They played golf together and went out often—to movies, to the theater occasionally, to triple-A baseball games, and to the state university football games. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Lou: tall, lean, relaxed, wearing jeans and that football jersey—popular with the whole school already, even though he's new. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Last week, you said you had started getting really into football,” he finally said. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Because of the success of his son Brian, he had become as faithful a devotee of the Permian football program as anyone. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Under instructions from the CIA, Murphy asked a question that only Powers could know the answer to: "What was the name of your high-school football coach?" Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “You are so selfish. My father is dead and you come over to play football?” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z I would go to football practice, there they were at my locker. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s playground equipment in another spot, and a large field for running around and playing sports, like kickball or football. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z They were at the center of a group of admirers that included Tina, Paige, and a couple of skinny football guys. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Even though you have trouble reading, I think you read good. I hope that some day you will become a professional football player,” said Shauna. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She pointed down at my football laundry bag. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z The way they smiled whenever Mike won a football game or Curtis won the science fair. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z It wasn’t an irrational thought, for there was no profession in the state of Texas with worse job security than that of high school football coach. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of stepping aside, he took a single step forward, and, as if punting a football, he kicked the sow squarely in her fat jowly chops so hard that she fumbled the chicken. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I also made friends, many of them girls, at school dances, which took place after football or basketball games. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z “If playing football can get you to college, if playing football can get you an education, then play football,” Hanson told him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He always wants to do something like throw a football or play Frisbee or go bowling and sometimes I just don’t want to do that stuff because I’m sad. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, if football taught him anything, it was how to hit something hard. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z J He fell leaping for a football That sailed his way. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know. I’m always at football practice. When I’m not, Dad makes me practice with him.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z My favorite photograph is of the three of us sitting in the football stands in junior high, all jammed together, shoulder to shoulder. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He was the first to admit that football had helped him become a dentist. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Kat calls lots of things cute, including cats, football players, movie stars and skirts and babies. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z “Pretty much. And remember how I told you he’d been that way since the end of the football season?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z The wind rose, kicking puffs of dust from the football field. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A big boy, the sort who played football in high school. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He was quarterback on the Muscatine high school football team, a starting guard in basketball, the president of his class and its valedictorian. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Good heavens, it looked like just a splodge of colours and all along it was a kangaroo in football boots having a sandwich! Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z One was square-jawed, wide-shouldered, great hair, looked like he had played football in high school, badly bitten fingernails, the other had a receding hairline, silver-rimmed round glasses, manicured nails. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z It would also give Odessa High fans something to cheer about again, a football team that would undoubtedly be superb. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He and my dad used to talk about football and he gave us discounts for years. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z And why couldn’t he be as proud of my wanting to build rockets as he was of Jim wanting to play football? October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z From the twenties through the eighties, whatever else there hadn’t been in Odessa, there had always been high school football. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I guess Paige and Tina want to date football players, so these two will do. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I knew Coach Dub. He was my position coach in football. Played linebacker for him for three years in high school.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Particularly football players and boxers, which happened to be Trinity’s two major sports. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z From here, I can see Liam and the other football players. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z On the opposite side, just like a football stadium, hundreds of private suites overlook a field of green several stories below. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z But the public outcry was so great, the governor called the superintendent and told him to start up the football program again, school or no school. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The lawn in the center was as long and wide as three football fields combined. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z He actually knew football as well as my brother. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z It didn’t look very comfortable, but the god Auster lounged on it like he was ready for an easy afternoon of watching football. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In the hierarchy of the school, where girls and partying and clothes and fancy cars were as important as academics, being a football player opened doors that other students could only dream of. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “The irony is, I did play football,” he said in a 2008 interview. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z It was Mike, bonking me with my new football. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z When soccer wasn’t on, my dad turned to football. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z They had been separated for some time, and it was the first time James senior had ever seen his son play football at Permian. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ladies and gentlemen, the very best football team in the state of Texas!” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “We don’t have practice today,” he said, talking about football again. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Liam, at one point, had the football an inch in front of him, but his hands were too slow and his footwork too bad to catch it when it was tossed to him. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “I’ll never get a football scholarship now,” he said, and his lower lip began to tremble and a big tear welled up and dribbled down his fuzzy cheek. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Come on. Put your hand on mine, like the football team does.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z If you watched them walk down the school corridor together, you would figure they were buddies from the football team. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z And yet not only was he playing football, he was excel-ling at it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z And just like that, Adam Douglas, an assistant football coach at Wallace High, became the Perkins High School athletic director. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z And Roger, heading to Eastern Washington University on a football scholarship, had willed his basketball uniform to me. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z I could not help staring at him, because his voice pulled me and because I did not know a priest could play football. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Sixteen and in love with a guy who didn’t return his texts and avoided the hell out of him at football practice. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “You don’t schedule a football practice on the morning of your team captain’s funeral.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “All right, then,” he said, and then he and Aaron got into a conversation about some football team. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Slithering behind her, they sounded like an army of football players shuffling with sandpaper on their cleats. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Because of him, she joined the sports club and watched him play football, sitting by the sidelines and holding his bottle of water. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Wayne Parr did not go to football and basketball games, and by and large, neither did we. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z But football games were not won with noble role models and the cotton candy that college presidents liked to spin out for the media. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I never made the football team, but I thought—I dreamed you would. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z My mom is just glad he gets to go to college for free because my sister doesn’t play football, and there wouldn’t be enough money to send both of them. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z I was living a straight life, playing football—and then doing plays. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “They have to play in all kinds of weather, Mom. Sometimes you get caught in a blizzard. Sometimes you get caught in the rain. It’s part of football. It’s part of soccer, too.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The Giant reached out and rolled the stone to one side as easily as if it had been a football, and now, where the stone had been, there appeared a vast black hole. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Lena, Hannah, and I get up and do a football huddle in the corner. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Mom asked quietly, “What if Erik has no future in football?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But Hanson gently coaxed him not to drop football too fast. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z As that spellbinding first drive unfolded to give Permian a 7—0 lead, Hankins knew it was over even though there were more than three quarters of football left to play. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed I had misread the situation between Sohrab and Ali-Reza, who had acted like friends, but were clearly engaged in some sort of personal vendetta that could only be settled through soccer/non-American football. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Even as a young girl I could talk football plays and strategy with the best of them. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z We learned to forge Mami's signature and went just about everywhere, to dance weekends and football weekends and snow sculpture weekends. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z He was cheering—a long “Haaay” sound, the kind they make at football games. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “More like kicking the people in the face,” Young Square Cop said; he was short and square, built like one of those guys who blocked tackles in college football. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z “How come you never told us you play football?” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “I get out to the football field, everything wipes clear in my mind,” he said. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone began making fun of “Captain Marvel,” the head of the football team, saying how girlish he looked in his graduation gown. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z My birthday wish for him had not come true while I was away or he’d be out of that neck brace and wheelchair and we’d be playing football. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole kickball game watched Sherm jog back to the other side of the yard with the football pressed against his stomach. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z I spotted some students from my school, walking toward the nearby football stadium, on their way to watch the game and root for our team. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It was my brother’s football game, which we brought a VCR tape of for my relatives to watch. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z "I don't even like football," Park said, looking back at the door. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z The players were walking off the field at an old football stadium where youth soccer games were now played, when Tracy spotted Grace, whom she recalled as shy and scared. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z I sat in the car for a minute, then moved cautiously toward the sounds of football practice. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “We did that once, back when I played football.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Mr. Donnelly, aside from being an outlaw wanted by the Architectural Committee, is a big University of Florida football booster. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The gym was older than the one at Hillpark; I’d expected it to be newer, remodeled, like East Shoal’s disgustingly expensive football stadium. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z But you can demolish a kid just as much by beating him in a race as by plowing him under on a football field. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z He said he looked forward to the moment football ended and he could spend all his free time “working with Jesus, working with Christ.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day, Tad got a text asking if they could meet up and practice running some plays—only the final play that day didn’t involve throwing the football. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Jim, a year ahead of me and a football star, usually got several dedications every day from admiring girls. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Me and Ducky were talking about the football play-offs and wondering if it was going to snow. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z We all expected a lecture on school spirit, how we should think about the football team all summer and be ready to cheer them on come fall. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “I graduated from this high school,” she said, “and all I ever heard was football, football, football. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if science was another way to get in this trophy case?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Three football players push the set forward into its place. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z “It’s like when you played football,” he said at one point. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The children laughed as the football hit the garage walls; the dust-covered ball left the walls polka-dotted brown. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah! Use a football, hit it with your head,” Conner said. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z I couldn’t understand what all the interest in football was anyway, and especially why the football boys were considered heroes. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z They stood side by side against the fence between the track and the sidelines of the football field. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know much about sports, but isn’t that when you play football?” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z I said, “Dad, have you ever seen any of the Lake Windsor High football guys out running?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The Football Fathers were besieged with demands from fans and the football team to do something. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Aileen led me around the back of the arts building and down along the edge of the woods toward the pep rally field and then down the slope to the football field. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z He wore his football helmet and butted into people. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Students who were Stoners, football players, and even girls from my cheerleading team were planning to join the march. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “But don’t you want to play football? I mean, at all?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z But he also understood the world of high school football: when Boobie got hurt, he became obsolete. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Of all the legends of Odessa, that of high school football was the most enduring. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The guests jabbered on and on about the weather, about food, about football, about chess, about twins. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Glenn Seaborg, the discoverer of element 94, was relaxing in his room at the Faculty Club, listening to a football game on the radio. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Guy looked like he should have been a football player, or better than that he could have just stood on the curb and been a fireplug. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z Coach Warner replied slowly, “Ma’am, I can’t ask these players and their parents to give up their sleep, to disrupt their lives, to come out to practice football at six-thirty.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was certainly strange that football seemed more important than school, but I was glad they had decided to continue the football program. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As he put it, “Public schools reflect a community’s desires, feelings, dreams,” and nowhere did those dreams unfold more powerfully than they did on a football held. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z At Permian the priority was football, which beyond the powerful memories and the wonderful joy it created year after year for the town of Odessa, rarely led to scholarships or careers. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z As I look at my life now, football is one of my top priorities, but just four years ago when I was a freshman, getting high was the only thing that mattered. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The Wrights offered to lend her photos of Warren in his football uniform, too—maybe the paper would want to run them with the story, they’d suggested. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Holy Cross is too small for a football team, but their basketball team always wins district and sometimes state. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z They are arranged in a semicircle around a scrubby grass expanse where the youths play softball, touch football, soccer. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z By the time he recovered from the shock, a little kid was weaving upfield through the varsity football players. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z All of the football players and a lot of the seniors who knew Mike Costello had come. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z For fifteen strides, more than the length of a football field, Pollard remained virtually motionless. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked down at the photograph of Warren Wright in his football uniform, which Mrs. Wright had pulled from the mantel to show her. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Who could poleax a stickball like a twelfth-grader and catch a football like Hands Down. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z His mother, Dale, felt the same way, for football had become as important to her as it had to her son. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He dropped a hand on my shoulder and walked all three of us down the track, away from the football field. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z He had a look of sad bemusement on his face, as if to acknowledge that no job in the world was stranger than that of a high school football coach. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I pull the football waiver from my pocket and slide it into the center of the table. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z We lined up to walk on the football field. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I played park league and Pop Warner football into junior high. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Anyway, it was the Saturday of the football game with Saxon Hall. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Toby had tried out for football their freshman year, and even though he had made it through the whole season without getting hurt or, honestly, getting into a game, he wasn’t made for sports. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z He kept talking about how the designated hitter in baseball was bad and why basketball was a commercial success and what teams looked promising in college football. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z The inherent telepathy that made us such a good team at soccer/non-American football helped us with Rook too. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z In the world of a small Texas town, where the four seasons of the year were football, basketball, track, and baseball, there was no greater condemnation. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z When a topic—especially one that happened outside Coalwood and also didn’t involve mining or football—reached the steps, you knew it was important. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z They went at it in Tecmo Super Bowl, a football game. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z That summer of 1983, I graduated from high school at the age of twenty, by far the oldest senior tossing his mortarboard on the football field that day. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z In a town where football mattered most, where it defined the mood and the psyche, who wanted to suffer through a drought that seemed destined to continue into the twenty-first century? Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z When we got there, two football players—never to be seen at a party without their jerseys—stood on opposite sides of the gate collecting beer money. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z “I will come and pick you up on my way back from town. We’re going to the stadium for football. You can play or watch.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “No? How about this one: Did they ever tell you about the kid who went out to play football in a thunderstorm, and he got struck by lightning, and he got killed?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Daddy was glad we got home in time for the preseason football games. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z He was a long way off the ground when she released him and he plummeted to earth and hit the floor and bounced like a football. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Since I’m not in football, and can’t pay for my own lunch, and don’t have any friends. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I expected big crowds after football games, but this looked like the entire school had formed one huge tailgating party. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Hundreds or thousands more stood atop the bluffs on the south bank, waving palm leaves in synchrony to create a kind of football wave that Carvajal clearly found peculiar and unnerving. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I kept imagining what it would be like to be back with my public school friends, going wild at football homecoming games, joining clubs, and finding dates for prom. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z And then he starts saying that I could really go somewhere with football, play in college and all that.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z And if God really does control everything, then that means that God wants me to be poor and not be on the football team. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z It was longer than two and a half football fields and as tall as a city. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z It started way back when I got my first football helmet for Christmas. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z And there was Brad, the quarterback of the high school football team. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z “Her boyfriend might,” Sherman said as a huge football player stalked up and took her hand. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The drama of the shy little quiet girl saying no to the big strong football player. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Later, while Dad retreated to the living room and Mom fumed in the kitchen, the football boys from Coalwood gathered in Jim’s room, plotting futile anarchy. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I’m poor, wear secondhand clothes, can’t be on the football team. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He came up to my chest, had muscles that would put a Westlake Academy football player to shame, and now that he was standing up, one of his ears drooped. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z And just then, one of the football coaches saw what was happening and yelled at us to cut it out. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Among the whistles on colorful coiled plastic key chains, small blue rubber footballs, Frisbees, yo-yos, bubbles, and glow jewelry, I saw green and red and blue glitter pens. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Mom and Dad are at each other’s throats arguing about all of this—the football practice, the lightning, the kind of place we live in now. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “And Delaware State. I played football for Delaware.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The waitress is wearing a burgundy Grizzlies football jersey, which has a bear paw clawing down the front of it. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z With the close scrutiny that football players’ grades received because of the no-pass, no-play rule, he had always passed his courses. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She had grown up in West Texas, and it was obvious to her that high school football could galvanize a community and help keep it together. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Some kids don’t like to play football and the Spanish-Mexi- cans are one of them,” said Vern Foreman, an electrical contractor and former city councilman who had graduated from Odessa High in 1951. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He was livid after the play and threw the football at a Cooper player. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z We plucked the folded Batman square back and forth—a lazy game of table football. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Inside the shed they formed a moving white carpet that stretched nearly the length of a football field. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It was not technically a field—it was more of a lawn, really, and there was a slight grade to it—but that was where Coach Fortes took us to play football/American soccer. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z ‘That is a regular measurement in Canada and the rest of the world. Only you Americans -’ ‘About five or six football fields,’ Hazel interceded, feeding Arion a big chunk of gold. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z It showed a football player wearing a number nineteen jersey dropping back to hurl a pass. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z We dodge some shirtless guy who runs to catch a football sailing in the air. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The noise was like a cannon barrage combined with a football stadium crowd—like every Patriots fan in New England was charging us with bazookas. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z I scanned the auditorium and found her with a group of her girlfriends huddling around a trio of senior football players. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z In the movie, Kimberly Lou played a pretty college cheerleader who got hexed into a witch and started boiling the star football players in a basement cauldron. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And I could see them holding hands at football games that they do not watch. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z We had to move the coffin out of the Spokane Tribal Longhouse and set it on the fifty-yard line of the football field. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Hoo asked, hoping to get back in time to watch the football game on television. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z In a metal-wire wastebasket was a basketball and a football and a baseball mitt still cradling a stained and scruffed-up ball. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Instead he described Russeau’s changing of Edwards’s grade as a “blatant” example of grade-fixing to make sure that a football team would be eligible for the playoffs. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The wound, he saw now,was not nearly as large as a football, but as long and wide as his hand and too raw and deep to see into clearly. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “I got no vertical. Like literally, the coach told me I’d be warming the bench a lot, but I had a good arm and was kinda fast, so he suggested football.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z He had been on crutches for about a year, and sometimes he cried because he wasn’t able to play football. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Penn State and the University of Alabama had been football rivals in the 1970s, when both schools had had successful programs and iconic coaches, Bear Bryant at Alabama and Joe Paterno at Penn State. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Then Ernie’s arms snapped out and the football he was holding hit me full on my face. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Gilbert scooped up Beto and ran back with him under his arm like a football. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Odessa was hardly the only town that nurtured football and cherished it and went crazy over it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Mike persevered, a coach’s dream who worked hard and became a gifted student of the game of football, just as he had in baseball with his father. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A smoky scent hung in the air, along with an unmoving haze that had drifted from the open field where big kids sometimes played touch football, or tossed Frisbees. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Back in the gym we’re shooting more patterns when the football team comes in for a bathroom and water break. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z His sole year on his school’s football team yielded a bump on the forehead visible even in adulthood. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The general direction of the tracks seemed to be taking them to a place they knew well from so many cool football, basketball, and baseball games. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z But during the high school all-star football game in July at the Astrodome between players from the north regions of Texas and ones from the south, he had felt an intense pain in his back. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But get this: The boxes were light green football fields, with white grid lines at ten-yard intervals. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was just wide enough to square off into two small teams for a quick game of hover ball, otherwise known as football with no hands. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z In the twentieth century, because of football, the real smart people use these blacks just like they would on the farm. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Other artwork showcased additional sports—a football player scoring a touchdown, a baseball player swinging a bat, and a sprinter handing off a baton to a teammate. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “You ever think, Charlie, that our group is the same as any other group like the football team? And the only real difference between us is what we wear and why we wear it?” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z “You know that hallway down by the science labs? The creepy one where the football players always take their girlfriends to make out?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Rugby league is a lot like American football, but with no helmets and no pads. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z I’m staring out at an atrium as cavernous as six football fields. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Until a football boy stifled a groan, the silence was utter. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Therefore, one way for you to observe is for us to ship you a football. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z I’m a little cranky because my radio won’t get the football games. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “I hear you’re going out for football next year,” she said. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Saturdays often brought a football game, and every football game called for a dance afterward in the women’s gym. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z A bunch of football guys have lined up in the bay window and are mooning me. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z He started talking about his high school football career and, of course, his regrets about college. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a grimy three-story brick building with a carefully tended football field in front. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Unlike football coaches, who often try to key their players up for a big game, rowing coaches sometimes take the opposite tack. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z We were soon to learn that more had changed at Big Creek than the lack of football. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z They were concerned and excited over the approaching football games, but I had in my immediate past raced a car down a dark and foreign Mexican mountain. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The reason we were able to go so fast is that we started out riding on a rocket—a huge rocket taller than a football field standing on end. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The Permian fans thought they had a lock on football and were the only ones in town who knew anything about it, but that wasn’t true. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In one, she wore a cheerleading uniform, and another showed her with a bunch of other cheerleaders on a football field. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Mr. Turner looked sharply in the football boy’s direction, and Coach Gainer stood up and looked at him too. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z They’ve watched their football and eaten their pork for midday and their pizza for dinner. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Changing school boundaries was thorny under any conditions, but any effort to achieve a more balanced composition would inevitably be heightened by the politics of football. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I had failed to anticipate the need for soccer/non-American football gear when I packed. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z As a straight-A student who hated football, I fit into two of these bubbles. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z “You make some bonds for life,” he told a television interviewer of his career as a high school football player. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Both were football players at Sky View High School in Smithfield, the second largest city in Cache County after Logan. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “I played football in high school but couldn’t get into a college. You know the only thing I’m good at?” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The place clearly had a stigma attached to it now, and nowhere was that better embodied than on the football held. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z After the game ended, the trophy commemorating the win was held aloft, a golden football mounted on a pedestal. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z So far, he’s my best friend here, tall and footbally but with none of the football vibe I’ve come to associate with guys who look like him. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I wonder if the girls really care about football, or if they just act this way to impress their husbands. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She raged against football, male bonding, babies, breeders, politicians, and men in general. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z While they waited, the boys played football with a wooden brick and their sister gazed out the window, humming softly to herself. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “What I mean is, Coach O would give his left nut to have you on the football team. What’d you play?” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I thought only pro football and baseball games get crowds like that. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z The final regular season football game ended with Big Creek winning big over Tazewell High School, just across the Virginia border. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z As a prelude Joe and his freshman crewmates took on the varsity crew in a football game of their own and were unceremoniously crushed by the older boys. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z But he rallied them like a football coach. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z That night, when the mouse thing started to wear off, my mind went back to the football game, to Scooter, to the tackle. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z They’re mostly cops and insurance salesmen who bet on football games and smoke disgusting cigars. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z But about a dozen were playing football, because they were on the varsity, and the gym teacher happened to be the football coach. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t remember or even picture slamming into her with my new football helmet. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z Every few days he’d go play capture the flag or football with Bobby and Tyler and the other boys to keep them from getting sulky. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The cheer table, which consists of anyone who does anything at a football game that doesn’t include a ball. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The last football game of the season was her first as a cheerleader. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Me and two of my basketball teammates are on the varsity football cheer squad. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z The number on the white jersey each girl wore corresponded to that of the player she had been assigned for the football season. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The pillars lined both sides like sentinels all the way to other end, a full football field away, where a statue sat on a golden throne. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Some of the players were obnoxious and egotistical, but Roqui didn’t really mind as long as it was a football player she got and not one of the student trainers. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew he put in an enormous number of hours during the football season and that he was under constant pressure to produce a superb football team. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But what I get is the familiar scene of a football player stretching himself into the day. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Wayne then sought out the head coach and told him, “I know this isn’t the thing you want to hear, but there’s no time for football in my life anymore. My heart is in theater.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The sports Finny played officially—football, hockey, baseball, lacrosse—didn’t have school records. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z His reference points for sports were the more common football, basketball, and baseball; fencing was still new for him. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z It would have been wrong to say that Gary Edwards abused the rules, because by his own account and those of others there were no rules for football players. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z There were no football games in the fall of 1958, but the band still took trips around the district on holidays to march through the various towns that invited us. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z My inability to throw a football was exceeded only by my inability to master the guitar. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “That evening,” recalled his tent-mate Charlotte Fox, “I couldn’t tell that Scott might have been sick. He was acting like Mr. Gung Ho, getting everyone psyched up like a football coach before the big game.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z JT, which was what everyone called him, was tall and blond and played football too. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He stocked the Coalwood school library and built a school playground and a football field. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The football boys gathered around their exalted coach, begging in vain for some reprieve. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z There was something to be said for getting clean and fresh again after a game of football. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z If an IV solution normally used in hospitals and at the scene of accidents was now being used during the halftime of a high school football game to ease complaints of exhaustion, so be it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He could see Mars Bar charging from behind to tackle him, even when he didn’t have the football. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He played football in college, defense, before hurting his knee junior year. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z This time when I charged at the door I put my hand out like Paul Robeson running down the football field. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Beyond the football game was the only sign of official activity. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Every few years our football team is decent enough for play-offs and every once in a while someone even makes it out of here and does the kind of thing worth recognizing. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “I never really like doing the things I’m supposed to like. I’m good at playing football. But the whole season feels like something I have to get through.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The gymnasium was contiguous to the east wing of the school, and a grassless football field with cracked baked mud harrowed by cleats formed the far boundary of the campus to the north. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z My eyes were on the football field, on Father Amadi s running legs, on the flying white-and-black football, on the many legs of the boys, which all looked like one leg. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I forget, until I drive by the high school on my way back from the burbs, where a thousand spinning, singing Santas live, that there’s a football game tonight. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Football, field hockey, cheerleading—everybody was milling around the gym, high-fiving, kicking the football. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z Off to the east was a football game, and from the same direction came the feeble sound of a hymn being sung in unison, then fading. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The fact that he apparently notices me enough to know I’m not at football games.“This is my first time,” I say. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z But Justis hated the game of football and wanted his son to do the same and had programmed him to think that anyone who played it was a fool. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The guys animate their answers with fist pumping and jumped-up bro hugs and take-thats and all manner of behaviors that make it seem like we’re participating in football practice and not a dry Quiz Bowl. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z “Not anywhere. I’m gonna play football when I get to high school. You understand that?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z That gave us a clear view of the North Playing Field where about a dozen boys from our year and Senior 3 had gathered to play football. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d been having pep rallies all week in anticipation of the homecoming game—it was a football thing, I think—and I’d been skipping them. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I wonder if he doesn’t have friends ’cause he didn’t get on the football team either. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Seeing their fingers coming toward me I rolled away as a fumbled football rolls off the receiver's fingertips, back into the coals. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He catches a long toss from me, cups the football under his arm and points to this buoy floating out past the waves. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Iowa was a wrestling-mad school, but the intensity was nowhere near what it was in Odessa over football, the relationship nowhere near as intertwined. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He was on a hunt to find a hidden match for the football book cover he had just memorized. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z I can tell that he kind of wants to play football too so I tell him he should follow his empathy and go play. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Michael Sandler called out to his side like a football coach, “Only if you know the answer,” and half of the boys lowered their flags. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z “It’s the closest they can get to being a football player.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The football stadium has just lost half of its seating capacity. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was unfair that the coach gave better grades to football players, and he was just trying to even things out. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Kevin enjoys every meal, in part because of the need to maintain his weight for football and because, beyond that, he has a hard time sitting still. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Here and there, on slender patches of beach, shirtless young men tossed footballs back and forth. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The white vans were pulling up, and these fat plastic bags were flying out the windows, bursting like water balloons in the homes of the football fans of Lake Windsor High School. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z During the day they trained, playing football on the beach in army boots to build up their legs, and then at night they had the drills. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Roamer has taken over the kitchen with random other baseball players and football players. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z So we’re all invited over there to meet two other Florida football guys from this area. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a long three-storeyed stone building that looked rather like a private lunatic asylum, and in front of it lay the playing- fields with their three football pitches. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z She organized the group of Atlanta Falcons football players who came to escort Jus home from the hospital in a luxury party bus. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Vanderbilt, also wound up with stress, blew off steam in bruising morning football games with the exercise boys. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of them were already frustrated with the boys playing football in the street—lost in their game, the players would curse, run through flower gardens, and scatter their quarter-water bottles across the sidewalks. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “Everybody’s into football. Football is the sport. I wouldn’t say it’s an honor or anything but it’s looked up to: ‘Wow, you’re going out with a football player, a Permian football player.’ Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I spent the next day in our room, playing football on mute, at once unable to do nothing and unable to do anything much. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z I watched the spot as though compelled, just beneath the lower rib and above the hip-bone, as Sylvester measured carefully with his toe and kicked as though he were punting a football. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Lori had always made very good posters, for football rallies, for the plays the drama club put on, and for candidates running for student council. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z In the morning the principal had announced sign-ups for football and cheerleading and other stuff. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z So honored was she by the presence of these three stud football players, according to Derric and Gary, that she insisted on Polaroid pictures being taken to commemorate the occasion. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Her school has trees and a track, basketball gym, and football field. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z The Dog Squad was there to pull the plug and “neutralize his ray gun—before the madman ruins satellite TV for everyone. It’s football season!” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z She told Dad, “I don’t care if this is supposed to be about football. He’s going to tell me why he won’t answer the letter and the phone calls from the Architectural Committee.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Our feeds were clear again from all the moon banners, so for a long time we all watched the football game while the girls, they did something else on the feed. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z One day, we boys are playing a game that is much like English football. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z As I chew, I’m nervous to ask about football. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I had me a fine pink dress and a rose, and I walked myself proud and straight- backed onto that football field. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Instead, it was divided into football, basketball, and baseball seasons. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z One town, one school, and most attractive of all, one football team. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He got to football practice, where the demands and pressures were ceaseless the second he stepped on the field. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z His father had played football in Odessa in the sixties when there was an all-black high school in town called Blackshear. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In his own private way, he found far more inspiration in the classroom than he did on the football field. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Yes. But I’m rubbish at things like football.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z On the screen he dove into the end zone for the touchdown, impossibly small to be playing football, five eight and 135 pounds. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The corners are tucked in tight like a paper football we might have flicked through straw goalposts last year. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Chess noticed that Finn was clutching a teddy bear that was missing an ear and an eye because he and his friend Tyrell liked to use it as a football. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Atticus said, “He came in late one afternoon hot from football practice and raided the Kappa Alpha icebox. He also ate a dozen bananas and washed ’em down with a pint of whiskey. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z No one had ever applauded Brian Cochran before and he felt like a football hero, of all things. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The shouts of the fellows from the football field below echoed feebly in the air. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A life where his and Luke’s only worry was getting twenty dollars off their parents so they could waste it at Applebee’s after the football game. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Carter was the president of The Vigils because the president was always a football player—the muscle someone like Archie needed. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though I told her I was a football player, she’s still a little startled. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Four armed guards were patrolling the parking lot, and cars were parked all around the wire-netting fence that surrounded the former football field. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He’d already failed at Little League—never hit the ball, not even once—and Boyd Middle School didn’t have football, so that would have to wait. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z JT and Red were on the lawn, tossing a football back and forth. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He had pushed Boobie in football and prodded him and refused to let him quit. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z During her two terms on the school board she had gotten more than her fill of sports, and she wondered what good high school football did for the kids who played it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, for some reason, he had the feeling he would never talk to her, never play football again—a crazy feeling but one that he couldn’t shake. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Every time someone said football, I couldn’t take it.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing was there at the football game, and he was one of the few people who was not an adult that was actually watching the game. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z He sits in the football stadium while we dribble our five miles. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked like a football coach who had done a good job with her team and was satisfied to stand next to the eighteen-yard box and watch. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I got a good grip on my football bag. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z “You ever go to any of the Alabama football games?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He had settled down, and he had his son’s football season to look forward to. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z When Boobie Miles returned to the football field, no one called out his name with those bellowing chants that had rocked the Watermelon Feed in a moment that seemed like a millennium before. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But then, with time running out in the half, he had fumbled again, as if the ghost of Charlie caused the football to go bouncing along the turf like a basketball. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m not saying there’s a bearded old geezer named Yahweh up in the clouds deciding which football team is going to win the Super Bowl,” Dad said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He could hear the football game in the background. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Loved dissecting frogs, doing word problems, going to football games, and dating cheerleaders. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z His best friend, Derric Evans, was an even better football player than Gary was. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Southern_Northbrook: Yeah my dad was just blabbing about me going out for football when school starts tomorrow. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z One of them suggested that maybe it was best for Boobie just to kill himself since he didn’t have football anymore. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z After all, she was just the head of the English department, a job that in the scheme of natural selection at Permian ranked well behind football coach and band director, among others. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The boys on the football team shrugged and grinned. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z In high school he’d been the consummate all-around athlete—a star in football, basketball, and track—and an honor student. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Abu’s love and passion for football was passed down to my brother, with Qareeb playing football from a really young age in Pop Warner youth football programs, a local league for young boys. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Each of our spoons has a dark-yellow halibut liver oil capsule in it, shaped like a small football. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “It’s just me, Junior, your old football coach.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z If a giant meteor had hit the football field, we wouldn’t have heard that either. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z In addition to a track team, Mountain View had a football team and was known around the state for its academic and sports successes. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Or maybe he’d made a mistake because he was so distracted by the football suspension and opening the new preparation plant over in Caretta. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z An hour later, all is right with the world—the football captain and cheer squad co-captain are crowned Homecoming king and queen. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z For a while she went out with Brian Chavez, and it was hard not to feel proud when she saw him on the football field. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z None of the men in Zeitoun’s cell knew whether or not these prisoners were still on the football field, or what had become of them. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “Did you know some frogs can leap so far it’d be like a human jumping the length of a football field? They’re amazing jumpers.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I don’t care what she has in the trunk till I start a football team with Billy Campbell and Malachy. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The previous year, near the end of the football season, we had had only three games left to play. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z As football became more important in Wes’s life, his performance in school declined. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “You can do nothing about the football suspension,” he said, looking at the football boys. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The sports anchorman went through the professional baseball and football stuff, then the college football scores, and then the high school scores. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad told Coach Warner the thing about Ohio State—how he regretted that he hadn’t been big enough to play football there. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Three days later, my father was up on the roof, fixing the aerial so he could watch some football game on TV, and he fell off. And he died.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z With savage scorn I’d refer to the ‘animals’ playing football or baseball. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A week after the principals switch places, Truman’s football coach quits. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z On the other side of the football field was a train track. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The football boys, even my brother, were so easy. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Even though it doesn’t look it, track is kind of like football. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z The room was more than a hundred yards across, larger in all directions than a football field. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His son Willy, Jr., often played touch football with us, coming down with the other boys from Mudhole to scrimmage with us on the broad concrete between the church and the Club House. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The usual corridor pandemonium surrounded him, slammed locker doors, wild yells and whistles, pounding feet as the guys hurried to the afterschool activities, football, boxing, debating. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z At least four boys wore Scream masks; a couple donned football jerseys and helmets; a creative few wore long jackets and fedoras and sunglasses and feather boas. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Our beloved football team loses the state semifinals, which concludes my inaugural varsity cheerleading season at Decatur High. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z The 1800s section and the 1950s high-rise were connected by sort of a tunnel, maybe six yards wide and probably half a football field in length, or it seemed that way. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z “Hey,” I say to Tom as we head to football practice, “did you hear about that kid in Monroeville who says he was possessed by the devil?” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Once last year, coming off the football field, I saw him rubbing his hip when he thought no one was watching. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As if that weren’t bad enough, they were using it as a football, punting it back and forth. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It won’t be a real issue until football starts up again. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Along the western edge of this courtyard, extending from the back of the kitchen, ran a white, translucent tunnel, something like the tubes that conduct football teams onto the field. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Rashid didn’t want to die, but he moved in front of the football quarterback. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Boys were playing football in different teams on the same field, so that multiple balls flew in the air; Olanna wondered how they could tell which ball was which. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Jack didn’t take guff off anybody on his school bus, even big overgrown football players. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Paige was talking to a man I recognized from the football practice meeting. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Cap never suspected that the entries were all fake, and that we were writing them in the equipment room after Zach was done with football practice. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Everyone is thinking about two days off from school, grandparents coming for dinner, the Syosset-Farmingdale football rivalry, and all that. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z They want to be one of the tall kids, one of the pretty kids, one of the fast kids, or the ones who are good at football. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z As if they had not just been beaten up by a pair of seventh graders in front of the entire football team and five hundred other people. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, instead of teasing the little girls, the three of them wandered off arm in arm to watch the big boys’ football. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Mom is determined to call the parents of each and every football player, get them together, and have them refuse to send their sons to any more afternoon practices. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of the family lives in apartments, so on weekends my uncles gather there to watch football and eat themselves sick. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Four of us played the same clarinet, handing it off to one another in the hallway at school like halfbacks on a football field. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They stood in a vast courtyard several times the size of a football field, surrounded by four enormous walls made of gray stone and covered in spots with thick ivy. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He had no link to Permian football anymore, but he felt the familiar anxiousness during that final minute. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I have been working hard in school and in the gym to be ready for football at the college level. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Darren’s dad taught me all sorts of useful stuff, like the right way to hold the football and how to throw it so it spiraled just right. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z Mike Costello spoke very well, like one of those football guys who make United Way commercials. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And apart from a few reportings of football games, the mental fare has been as generalized, as packaged, and as undistinguished as the food.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad, Bobby Gene, and Styx tossed the football around. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z If he wanted to be noticed by scouts for a football scholarship, every game counted. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Asserting their superiority is like saying that the motley mob at a football game is somehow intrinsically superior to the closely related attendees of a family reunion. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z We wouldn’t beat DeWitt Clinton’s football team, but the rally was fun. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z But it did not mitigate the feelings of failure on the football field. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s what Enrico Fermi and his team were trying to do in the squash court under the football stands in Chicago. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Just nearby, his Wellingtons were lying fallen on their sides, his football socks peeking out of the tops. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hey, you want to play football with me and my dad?” he asked. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z In her answers in class, she often spoke of sea horses and stars, but she did not know what a football was. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z She’s one of those college football fans who chant “We are...Penn State.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “You know, he’s the star of the Lake Windsor High School football team, but he doesn’t live in Lake Windsor. He lives in Tangerine.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The occasion for all the hoopla was a big football game that night with Baton Rouge, their archrival. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Big Creek kept winning, and the people in charge of high-school football up in Charleston kept saying it didn’t matter—there was no way we were going to be state champs. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Instead of being housed inside the prison, they were brought to the football stadium on the property. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Children liked Crane because they hadn’t been anyplace else, except to Monahans or Marfa or Big Lake for a basketball or football game. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z If the Japanese had invented football, this is how they would have played it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I do not like the Permian football program,” he had said. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They weren’t interested in him just because he was big and looked imposing in a football uniform. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Erin, Boy21, and I sip hot chocolate as we watch our football team lose their final game of the season on their home field. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He wanted life to be normal again— football, even his homework, without that daily burden weighing him down. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When we moved to Houston, when Erik was eleven, he realized that football was the star attraction. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He would abide by his son’s decision if Ivory chose not to play football anymore after high school. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Thanks to desegregation, football was blacks’ claim to fame in Odessa, the thing they were known for, and there was no better proof than the Wall of Fame. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The parade actually leaves the school grounds, where it loops around for a block before coming onto the track circling the football field. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z My own graduation had taken place on the high school football field. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “Nothing. I just know a lot of football players.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z A wiry, hard-partying man with a prematurely weathered face that brought to mind an old football, he’d been a postal worker for more than twenty-seven years. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He talks about his classes a little bit, but mostly he talks about the football team. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z That’s the story with every decent football player in Clover City. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He first put Reggie on the football and basketball teams, but the boy got into too many scuffles with his teammates. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z If ever you seen him on a football field, if ever you seen him play with his children, you wouldn’t doubt me. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “I spend a good part of the year after the football season drumming that message into the students and the faculty that we are not second- rate,” he admitted. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He would be the first one ever to get a football scholarship, the first one to go with no help from the BIA or anyone. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z An old deflated football sat in one corner, at the base of a Virgin Mary statue. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z What you would do is take a football or something, and one person would have it, and all the other kids would try to tackle that kid. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z High honor student and varsity guard on the football team. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Since I’d never made a lot of friends in Welch, I hardly ever went to the school’s football games or dances or rallies. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “So this is what boys do for fun when they’re not playing football?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Jim and most of the other football boys went off down the street, but Buck caught Sherman and O’Dell and me out on the church steps. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He knows what the job of small-town mayor is—he shows up at every football game and makes sure the garbage gets picked up and the streets get plowed when it snows. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Ignatius kicked the little door closed, as if he were playing to wan in a professional football game, neatly severing a protruding hot dog into two six-inch sections. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When we were finished, some of the football players actually clapped. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I’d seen her once or twice before, at a football game maybe. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z "I didn't know you could get nervous. Do you get nervous before football games?" Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z Oh, I probably forgot to tell you—I’m assistant head football coach at the Andrew J. McCorkle High School. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t play—he was a drum major—but the band is just as important as the football team at HBCUs. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z As I reach the football field, I’m hit by just how crowded it is. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Big Wayne, of all people, giving up football to devote himself to theater? Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z All the other basketball players in our school are also on the football or cheerleading teams, which practice on the fields next to the track, but they aren’t practicing yet this early in the morning. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z By comparison, she noted, the salary of Gary Gaines, who served as both football coach and athletic director for Permian but did not teach any classes, was $48,000. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I didn’t know you were a football fan.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z His boys were not here yet, so the football field was empty. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z And I figured out that this was a kid who knew football very well. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z The front page of the Carolina Times had a story about a Negro college football coach who’d led his team to victory, and another about unfair treatment of colored workers in Raleigh. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z In fact, he was small for a tackle on the football team. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I didn’t recognize him. Not without his football uniform.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z So if football was going to be the thing that took our minds off the mess for at least a few hours, then fine with me. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The rodent had been living in my laundry bag, probably since the football season started. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z He listened with his eyes closed as five of the football players lip-synced to a rap song, to thunderous applause that dwarfed his own. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Instead, he took advantage of my silence to talk to himself about football, and dogs he had had as a boy. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It seems to me that if schools spend money on field trips and football equipment, they should spend just as much on something that's a million times more important. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The rain continued to hammer down, pounding on the long line of kids trudging north, around the football stadium, toward the high school gymnasium. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Although before the suspension the football boys might have had the hearts of the girls, we boys in the band had more ready access to them. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Particularly during the summertime, the streets were full of kids, and this group looked like a good match for a game of street football. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z She is nudging fourteen-year-old John, who brings home As, is a linebacker on the football squad and a squad leader in the Reserve Officers Training Corps, to consider becoming a doctor. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z In the 1920s and 1930s, collegiate crew was wildly popular, often ranking right up there with baseball and collegiate football in the amount of press it received and the crowds it drew. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z But when Clancy had told him to go long and heaved the football into the air, Satchmo had tried his best to extend his body, stretched out for it, but it was just beyond him. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z His breath went away, like it did in football, and then came back again. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z This man was slim and wiry and he played football. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z They often said they did so because they were disgusted with what had happened to the football program. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She talked about high school football with the mailman and took cold fried chicken to Bertha’s knitting club. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Still, she moved her feet and then the gun so that it was pointed at the football captain and all-around hero of the school. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z And to pile glory upon glory, I was in the school football team as well. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a picture of the cheerleaders at a football game. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z At the military school where he prepped for Princeton, and played a very good end on the football team, no one had made him race-conscious. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “All through high school. I come after school when it’s not football season, every Saturday and all summer. I bought a car with the money I made last year.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It showed Granger students, all of them white and male, standing on the bleachers at a football game. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z At the far end of the lawn, at the edge of the forest that surrounded the campus, were the baseball and football fields. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The football boys leaned their heads in on the groaner as if in group prayer. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z A time-out was called in the football game, and a com-mercial came on the screen. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Things like the homecoming football game and dance, even if I don’t have a date. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z He looked like a football player, solid and strong, with a new center of gravity. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z They went to football games and the dances that always followed the games. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The only thing children should be connecting to, my dad would say, is each other, in a football uniform. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z In mid-June 2011, the cast members of Good Boys and True receive their high school diplomas at the traditional commencement on the football field. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z It was like a metal mesa, the length of a football field and as tall as goalposts. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I was thinking about this: Erik’s arrival is going to change the football season at Lake Windsor High School. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z His whole purpose in life, she felt, was to be a football player. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He would serve as an assistant football coach, and he would be allowed to form his own tennis team. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Said you don’t even have to have played the other years to go out for football.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Ben saw that the boy was Jim Don Cooper, the linebacker and captain of the football team, and the boy who had gone steady for three years with Ansley Matthews. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Today was the first day of football season for the Lake Windsor High Seagulls. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And my football waiver is torn into a hundred pieces, scattered all over the living room like confetti. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z It’s the shirt for football, for climbing walls, for robbings orchards. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Most of the family eats quickly and goes back to watching football on TV. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z She walked the long way round, through a schoolyard, down a street lined with pecan trees, across another schoolyard, across a football field on which Jem in a daze had once tackled his own man. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z When I went to Big Creek, Coach Merrill Gainer, the winningest coach in southern West Virginia history, took one look at me lost inside the practice gear and ordered me off his football field. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “I’d rather cheer than anything in the world,” she said, then looking at Ben asked, “Why don’t you play football? You’re big enough.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He tucks the Japanese prime minister's cat under one arm like a football as he fumbles in his pockets for...a remote! Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He found it when he asked him if he wanted to play on the Pop Warner football team that L.V. coached called the Vikings. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She wormed her way out into the backyard, where a knot of boys were chugging beer and arguing about the football team’s chances of the playoffs. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It was going to be a football game after all, a mean, relentless, thudding fight in the gray and the rain. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A baseball cap, even though mine is for a football team called the Miami Dolphins. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z There were never many girls at all at the football games. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Dad and Devon used to throw a football in the backyard. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m gonna love being a dad. I’ll get to teach my kid how to throw a punch and a football. It’s going to be fun.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Books, papers, shoes, football helmets, baseball bats, dolls, trucks, bicycles, musical instruments, lay everywhere and were used by everyone. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Nathan as a boy played football on his high school team in Killdeer, Mississippi, with great success evidently, and expected his winning season to continue ever after. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He wanted to be out on the football field, fading back, looking for a receiver. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Tad grabbed the football from the floor and sent it flying against the wall, hoping his brother would get the hint. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z It was a dark silhouette of a huge guy, like a football player. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z I had never played American football, but Dad and I watched whenever we could figure out how to get a game on satellite. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z I couldn't imagine anything worse than driving down to Florida to watch a football game, but I pretended to be impressed. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The school kept threatening to drop football because of low attendance. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z In a few years, I was not only penning columns, I was writing sports books, doing radio shows, and appearing regularly on TV, spouting my opinions on rich football players and hypocritical college sports programs. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ll have a Point of View on serious subjects such as Immigration, the role of the Catholic Church in an increasingly secular society, the relative suckage of professional football teams. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z All the guys were at either rugby or football practice. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Others just seemed to let him go, doing little more than babysitting this kid who, as one acknowledged, was destined to become the next Great Black Hope of the Permian football team. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z While they were talking football, I kept looking for Patrick and Sam, but all I saw were those graduation caps in the distance. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Ranked number one in his class at Permian, he moved ef-fortlessly between the world of the football and the academic elite. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I heard a whistle, and the football coach screamed at Casey and Nick to get back over to their standing-around drill, and I knew I wasn’t dead, but my nose was bleeding pretty good. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z By three o’clock the sun had swung down over the west goalposts of the high school football field. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Jerrod had done everything it took to become a starter for the Permian football team. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He was fourteen and he was still feeling the physical and psychological effects of a football injury two years earlier. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He points to the football field, which is just up a small hill. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Some members of the football team were still carrying risers in and setting them up on the hardwood floor. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He was about to be a junior at the black high school, where he made all A’s and played halfback on the football team. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And what about the image of the football player? Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z “The Reverend and everybody else ought to be worrying about the football team, not you sister morons.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z JonPaul plays football, basketball and baseball and is roughly the size of a half-ton Chevy pickup, but he’s a total wuss about his health. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z There were little white boys with complete collections of football cards, and their only want was a popular girlfriend and their only worry was poison oak. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He climbed the stairs, and I walked in the direction of the football field. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z For C.P., it occurred when he was eight years old, playing football in a weedy field with a group of black children who lived just over the railroad tracks. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Oscar who was on the football team before he graduated from high school grabs Charlie’s shirt and tears off two buttons. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z “My key chain has a little gold football on it.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Such musings didn’t make him resentful of the football players; he liked them. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He is dating one of those cheerleader girls who does flips during college football games. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z It was difficult to watch his dad try to pull himself through, and Don was glad he had football. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can’t even begin to imagine that,” said Gaines, who in his own life could only remember disappointing his father once, in seventh grade, when he had played a football game over in Kermit. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “If we choose to put it into a football program, and the graduates from our high schools are at or above the state level of standards, then screw you, leave us alone.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Nick guessed she would play linebacker on a football team, because that’s what his dad had played in college. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Not the football players, but everyone else is looking at me, like I really am a killer, not just dressed like one. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I was used to crowd noise from playing football, but I never experienced anything like this. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z The marching band, the Seagirls, and the rest of the football team, the guys who weren’t seniors, were sitting there. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z His class rank at Permian going into his senior year was the second lowest of any senior on the football team, 480 out of 720. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I crashed into my cousin with my football helmet and knocked her all the way out into the snow.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z He had run the forty in 4.7 and he was All-State, but because of his size he knew there wasn’t a college in the world that had use for him as a football player. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They found out he could do more with a football than just catch it. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z And what my brother’s face will look like on a football card, or what it will look like if it is never on a football card. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z “Sucks that you didn’t join the football team. I never see you. Maybe try out next semester. I can coach you before. Teach you everything I’m learning.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Billy Steen, who bore no resemblance whatever to a football player but had become one through sheer will, fighting off an offensive lineman four inches taller and fifty pounds heavier to sack the quarterback. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Once by the football team and once by the band.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “It ruined my career. I thought I was going to play football. I was good at football. It just changed my life.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z One day a new kid, tall and lean, came to the vacant lot, spinning a football. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer, and, above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “You’re saying it was Red Dalton, the football star, right?” the police officer asked. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Farther on some teen-agers halfheartedly chopped at weeds along an irrigation ditch behind the junior high school football field bleachers. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I send it off quickly before football practice. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z She has been to his high school games and knows he is the vaunted captain of the St. Joseph’s football team. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. When it healed, and Jem's fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious..." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Mr. Wellbeloved was a white man whose office was grander than any I had ever seen; his desk seemed as wide as a football field. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes he half-jokingly suggested that he should have gotten out of football back in Pop Warner when he was at the top of his game. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I went to the high school football game the other day, and I don’t know exactly why. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Josh and Brandon, his constant companions from the football team, are standing next to him, oblivious. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Jesse had written about football, which he really hated, but he had enough brains to know that if he said drawing, everyone would laugh at him. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z “Ignore him. He’ll be on the bus with the other football players, anyway.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z He had gone off to college with his football scholarship in July. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I’m an active person—I play football, basketball, and baseball. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Just the sort of pickup you saw in mainland towns like Everett or Bellingham, the kind kids drove around after football games or on Saturday nights, late. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Each box contained the name of a university, its address and phone number, and the name of its head football coach. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “But the last time Mr. Crane found money to help us out, the school board went and used it to put up those electric lights on their football field. Out of spite, I think.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Twice I was invited to dinner in a mobile home and several times watched a football game on television. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z There are illiterate football players at all of the state schools. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z The pundits weren’t meeting teams of high school “Barack Stars,” who volunteered after football practice or drama club. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z This year’s ceremony will include the dedication of a laurel oak tree in the memory of Michael J. Costello, the Lake Windsor football captain, who was killed by lightning on September 5. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a color photograph of a boy dressed in a football uniform and a man standing next to him, smiling proudly with his arm around the boy. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z The next morning, Harvard’s football coach dismissed his 125-man team, telling them that protecting Boston was more important than football. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I tried to try to make a wisecrack about him mistaking me for a football, but blacked out before I could say it. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a soccer/non-American football jersey, with a green stripe across the shoulder, a red one across the chest, and the lightly drawn outline of a cheetah’s head on the stomach. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z There were other football players who had light schedules. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Only the football players were privy to that sacred knowledge. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Oliver laughs, throwing himself on his desk like it’s a fumbled football. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z It may be that Ivory Christian hates football. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The entire Houston Cougar football staff has been in the process of putting together the top list of high school senior football players in Texas. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Bellevue High is a rich school, a rich city, and the kids there win everything, every football game, every track meet, every academic scholarship. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Central was playing its last football game of the season. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the cars has a blue and white football jersey taped to the back window and the words go panthers painted above it. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z My brother told this one story where the whole team was sitting around the locker room, talking about all the stuff they had to do to get into college football. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z So we go over there, set up shop right next to ’em, and me and Diego pull off our shirts and start tossin’ the football around. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z He ate ice cream, drank milk, talked with football star Jimmy Brown and other friends, and some reporters. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Woods and Fermi ducked through a gate leading into the football stadium. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a reddish gray crew cut and a big head and neck, like a football player’s. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He let go of every former vestige in his life, except football. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He pretended to watch football on television for a little while after dinner and then put on his coat and walked up to the mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Dad answered it upstairs and heard the bad news from another football father. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Little Jimmy was quiet and shy and bad at football and, well, little. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I wanted to play college football! If I sit out my senior year, no college is going to pay any attention to me! I’ll never forgive you, Dad!” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Mike and his father talked about the football program at Lake Windsor High with a great deal of pride. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I think about all this sometimes when I’m watching a football game with Patrick and Sam. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z It’s kinda like church, but for football instead of God. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Races across the swimming pool, free-throw contests, tossing around a football—it felt like there was never a day without sports or an ultimate challenge from Abu. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The dominance of football in Texas high schools had become the focus of raging debate all over the state in 1983. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z And suddenly he wasn’t a high school football player at all, but a high school kid with absolutely no idea of what he was going to do with his life. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Even his thoughts became sharper, and things were simple and uncomplicated—he could solve math problems when he ran or memorize football play patterns. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He is like the winning football coach in some down-on-its-luck Ohio or Texas town—a beacon, a sign that grand achievement is possible, albeit unlikely. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Any school with a football team ought to have a computer gaming, web design, or programming team as well. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then once, towards the end of an afternoon break, a group of us were sitting on the grass quite close to the South Playing Field where the boys, as usual, were playing their football. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z My father expected me to attend an Ivy League university, where I'd make straight A's, play football, and spend my off-hours strumming guitar with the student jazz combo. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He wanted with all his heart to play high school football. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I hate Ria because there’s nothing going on inside her head besides volleyball and sparkly things. I hate Cliff for the same reason, only football instead of volleyball and sex instead of sparkly things.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Friday night football games were something Daddy, David and I had always done together. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z When you hand her a football she instantly spins it to the laces and says, “Go out.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He had disguised the event as a football rally, strictly for students, without the inhibition of the teachers being present. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They take up most of the space between this main building and the steel bleachers of the high school football stadium. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He used the most powerful pull there was for a thirteen-year-old boy living in Odessa, really the only one that gave a kid something to dream about— the power of Permian football. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Because I attend a large public high school in a state where football is idolized and jocks are demigods, I've had my fair share of abuse. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z After a while, people drifted into the living room with plates in their hands and watched a football game. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Freed of football, Wayne became a fully committed theater kid. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z When we came down off the mountain with our rocket, all the observers were gone, but Buck and the football team were back. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Max is cute and I like the red-and-white football jerseys that he wears all the time. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z I also recalled that Mr. Dubonnet had been the valedictorian of their class and a star football player. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z And my brother got me a poster signed by the whole football team. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z He had met Brother Leon in the corridor late one afternoon after football practice and had seen hate flashing in the teacher’s eyes. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He had three sports books from the library open in front of him—one on football and two on tennis. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Humiliated, I flick around on my trusty Zenith, trying to find the football game. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Some of the houses look as big as our school and the front lawns are longer and wider than football fields. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The football boys had taken to walking around in a gang all summer, as if daring anyone to say anything about their suspension. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Wes loved football, and his athletic frame made him a natural. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Gas chromatography of air samples might reveal blips of difference between substances released over a Glasgow football match, a committee meeting on academic promotions, and a summer beach on Saturday afternoon, all highly important. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Since I was very young, maybe six or seven, I have wanted to be a football player. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “The time I broke my ankle in football. I like the way this beach looks now. Shall we have a morning swim?” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z As the unsuspecting prey went around the end, still adjusting to the slightly surreal notion of practicing football indoors on a basketball court at seven-twenty in the morning, Ivory just smacked him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It was only a matter of time before some of those bitterly , opposed to court-mandated desegregation were told by a local official that Hurd had an arrest record as long as a football field. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In Pittsburgh, you can barely cross the street without passing a stadium or a football fan or a tailgate party. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I felt as I felt once coming home from an out-of-town football game. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Around the corner, in the great room, a videotape of a Florida Gators football game was playing on a big- screen TV. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Simeon followed the balloon with his eyes as if it were a football thrown long. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z As I’m walking into the language arts wing, this football guy I hardly recognize almost runs directly into me coming down the stairs. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z On a run with the wheelchair, driving to school with Fiona, in the weight room with football players, on the track with Kyro...the focus definitely does not feel like it’s on Rosa. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z He told Zach, with whom he had played football since they were little kids, “I’m done. I’m not having fun.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z I told her about how my brother would be playing his last football game of the season on New Year’s Day. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Dimple glanced down at the list as they meandered toward a patch of green field where a few students were tossing around a football. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Then one lunchtime I spotted him on the edge of the South Playing Field practising with his football. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know how I used to play football? There was this kid named Vinny Dawson. A friend of mine. There was an accident. It was my fault.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z A hard-hitting linebacker and captain on the football team who left the field and refused to return when a brawl erupted in his final high school game. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The cast mate who became her longtime high school boyfriend was not Bobby Ryan, but Wayne Miletto, who in Good Boys plays the part of the football coach. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z As long as they were no bigger than a football, he could deal. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z As Permian began to build a dynasty, Odessa High football faltered. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve been thinking. All my old schools had pep rallies for the football team, no matter how badly they played. Could we do something like that for the town?” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z The next day, we all watched my brother play football. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z In his senior year, the football team won the city championship, beating Frankford High, the Public League representative. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He once told me that football is built on violence and racism, and it is corrupting and exploiting kids in low-income neighborhoods. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z Daddy’s been teaching me football since I could crawl. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The older boys had basketball and baseball and football teams. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Here Mr. Donnelly turned to the men who were watching football. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z By now we were walking across the parking lot to the football field. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z “Well, you could play football for a college team and then be a professional player.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Like some fairytale tailor, he threaded the end through the maze, dipping and doodling through openings the way he squiggled a football through a defense. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I forgot that Dad could catch a football. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z While we, football boys and rocket boys, all froze in place, Tag leisurely got out and pushed his constable’s cap to the back of his head. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z And, of course, he was forbidden to teach math to prevent further threats to the sanctity of football. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “But me, I think instead of writing about baseball or football, I’m gonna write about a knight who slays a fire-breathing dragon.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z There was room enough for a football game, or an entire parade. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “Seriously, why are you taking me to the football field?” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z He just started talking about football and didn’t even mention anything about my brother playing on a team with black kids. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Jim and Buck and the football players disappeared, almost as if they got sucked up into the ceiling, leaving Quentin and me standing exposed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know why we cheered on Brazil, but I think it was because they call it football instead of soccer. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z He’s wearing a football uniform—a handsome young man—with his arm around her. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Bikes and skateboards and footballs and sneakers were scattered from the front door to the road. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z And there have indeed been other football players killed— one at Tangerine High and one at St. Anthony’s High. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know a lot of those football guys are laughing at me because of what I did. Because of the shoes. But I never, in a million years, thought they were laughing at Mike.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A football helmet had nailed me and I blacked out. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z There are beds of squash, root vegetables Sergio calls yucca, and a tree with big green fruit that looks like spiky footballs. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z On the field he was a demon, with a streak of nastiness that every coach loved to see in a football player. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Living with friends, he hadn’t seen L.V. in a month, and he had also lost all contact with the football team. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They are both going to an Ivy League homecoming football game, and they have this debate. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z That he plays football, dates Lisa, and works for his dad at the station. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z But when they got tired of playing, we walked back together toward the football field parking lot. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The first task we were given was to clear a massive plot of land the size of a football field. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I saw Alex at the high school football game on Friday when I went with June. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “Where is he? It was your precious football team that tried to put him through the crust of the earth. And don’t forget the punch that leveled him was meant for you.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Buck and some of the football team showed up too. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Two teenage boys, kicking a football back and forth twenty yards away, stopped to watch, bent double with laughter. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The tiny terror was barely the size of a football, and answered to the name Plath. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The halls and classrooms of the old schools still hum with the excitement of youth, and the football fields yet roar with celebration on cold fall Friday nights. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “He was black and he did that. Most of us that go here are black. We’re expected to do something wrong,” explains Emarieay, who played on the football and baseball teams. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z After the play, he turned around and hurled the football at the offender. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In later weeks, as the controversy raged, Marvin Edwards defended his decision by saying that it had nothing to do with football. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Father Amadi took his tank top off and dropped it on my lap before joining the boys on the football field. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z If he’d once defeated the greatest sorcerer in the world, how come Dudley had always been able' to kick him around like a football? Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z He was panting a bit, and though I knew this was from the football, it added to his overall impression of eagerness. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m thankful that my brother played football on television so nobody fought.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z The football game, I say; how dumb are you, the gaaaaame. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I looked at the pine trees surrounding the football field. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “Go, Big Creek,” some people called out, just as if we were the football team. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Boys get out of school to travel to football games, so I guess it shouldn’t be that much of a surprise that every contestant is given the Friday before the pageant off from school. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Terrell yells to Erin, which makes all the football players laugh. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I started ditching school, stopped going to football practice, and dropped all my old friends. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He firmly believed that football, like other sports, used blacks, exploited them and then spit them out once their talents as running backs or linebackers or wide receivers had been fully exhausted. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Ivy held Evan like a football and offered him the bottle. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He had fallen into the routine of the farm willingly, hoping to build up his body for Trinity and football in the fall. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z People around here like football, but the atmosphere is underwhelming compared to the basketball games. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They’re all togged out in blue and white jerseys and white shorts and proper football boots. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The boys are still grousing that the bits of red dress don’t look like hearts till Billy tells them if they don’t want to play football go home and play with their sisters’ dolls. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The possibility of that tantalized everyone, whether they liked football or not. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z And they’d want to know why he was in the school in the first place instead of partying with the football team. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Like, no shade on football, but I’m kind of more focused on the school part of college. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z He would fill her with his big-faced children, all of them loud, boneheaded boys with a passion for guns and football and aeroplanes. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He said he could throw a Frisbee the length of a football field and from April through September his sunglasses tan made him look like a raccoon. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Olympic sprinters and weightlifters, cyclists in the Tour de France, football linemen and baseball sluggers: they have all been shown to swallow whatever pill or powder may give them an edge. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I could remember playing paper football on these tables. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z In 1957, Jim and the other football boys wore Marine uniforms and pretended to be raising the flag on Iwo Jima. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Colin's backyard in Chicago measured twelve feet by ten feet; this backyard went on for football fields. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z The first day back to school in 1958 also began the first day of the football suspension. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “No, I just wanted Coach Simmons to think that. He gives better grades to football players.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z I’m lying on my stomach with a diaper on, looking up with this toothless grin, probably already thinking what I’m going to do when I get my first football helmet. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z He’d play football until Christmas and baseball until June with the rest of the big guys. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z I was lookin’ through my football cards, putting them in piles by position. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z On the football field he wore white running shorts and white gymshoes and short white socks. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z It isn’t a citywide Prayvaganza, that would be on the football field; it’s only for this district. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z At last one girl, splayed in the lap of a football player in the big armchair, said, “I think she took off with her boyfriend. Isn’t that right, Kev?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Most of us have difficulty believing that a 275-pound football lineman could have a lively and discerning intellect. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The Sports Family was next, the boys carrying football pads and helmets, their mother teetering on high heels. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z It was football that gave Gary Edwards a halo and made his whole life there like a ride in the backseat of a limo, and he wasn’t about to pass on it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I think it's the first time Nick has been here for a football game. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z He was editor of the school magazine, president of his class, played half-back on the football team, and was an honor student. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Men hooted and yelled as at a football game. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a chart showing the territorial boundaries of Lake Windsor High School and Tangerine High School, and another chart showing the Lake Windsor football records before and after the arrival of Antoine Thomas. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Because no one would dare sideline the all-American star football and baseball player. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “The football player clue wasn’t ‘past,’ it was ‘nineteen.’ Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Imagine a homecoming football game taking place on the same day as the lacrosse, soccer, baseball, tennis, and cross-country championships. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z “We play football here, sometimes. When the field is too full.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “You guys are a team? Smart move. Even I can’t win football games without help from ten other guys.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z “The teachers understood what they were doing. They respect football,” Crow said. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Gaines and the other Permian coaches were all too aware of the role that high school football occupied in Odessa, how it had become central to the psyche of thousands who lived there. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The two guys closest to me were on the football team. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z They laugh and play all the fairway games, and then I see them slip off to hang out near the football bleachers. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Jem’s football sweater had grown increasingly gorgeous—he was captain of the team, the first year Maycomb beat Abbottsville in thirteen seasons. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z My brother became a successful high-school football coach and a mentor to hundreds of young men, helping them through the difficult transition from adolescence to manhood. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z His class rank was in the top third, but because of football Jerrod wanted as little challenge as possible his senior year. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Had this been a football game and had he not been the target, it would have made Travis’s father proud. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z He appeared not quite as physically impressive as a football linebacker, but certainly looked like a broad-shouldered athlete, perhaps a retired Olympic swimmer. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t care if they break every bone in my body, I got to go out for football next year.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I asked him what football would be called, then, if soccer was called football. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Like the showers after winter football when Carver sits on the gym horse calling out, “Off with your cacks, Floyd Chaceley, or are we deformed?” and “Backs to wall, lads, Nicholas Briar's coming through!” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Scarlet stood beneath the scoreboard with a boy with dark hair, wearing a football captain’s uniform. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z About the same time, a strange traffic began at home: college football coaches, come to entice Jim to their schools. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She was superb at hockey, and could even hold her own with the Senior boys on the football pitch. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z This, of course, took us right beside the fields where the soccer and football teams practiced. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The boys played tackle football on the training field. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Then the football players come out in their jerseys and everyone claps and cheers them on. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The hulking Mark I, not yet dismantled, still sat in its barnlike home: a corrugated metal building the length of a football field that hove into view while they were still miles away. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Never had so many people come to a football game to see a cheerleader. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z I was carrying a suitcase with my football things in it, and I walked up the street from the station in the town I had lived in all my life and it was all new. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z All he talks about is football and fishing. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “What would Boobie be without football?” echoed a Permian coach when asked the question one day. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z This was my time—eighth grade, captain of the football and soccer teams, Big Man on Campus. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z I am in the body of a football player named James. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z And the next, “Live erotic show, gentlemen! Plus in our establishment you can watch the football game!” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z And then, with a phone call from a college football recruiter, all those dreams began to fade away. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know people are laughing at me. I hate it. I hate that school. I hate that football field. I hate that goalpost.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z All he really wanted to do was either play football professionally or become a rapper. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z A five-minute walk through the trees leads us to a huge clearing about the size of two football fields. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z And he was going to be a pro football player, just like me. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z Some were in suspenders, neckties, and...football pads? The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z He also read when his friends were late for lunch, to avoid drawing the attention of some of the football players, who liked to harass him. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z So were Coach Warner and the other football coaches. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A dam the size of a football stadium stood in our path. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z He talked of the pacifist views he’d held before World War II. He talked of his love of world travel and the environment and college football. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z There was a groan from the knot of football boys. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Actually, he seems a pretty decent guy, for a football player. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s on the far side of the middle school’s football fields, just before the train tracks. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Half the football players were coughing from the polluted air. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z I squint past them to the track surrounding the football field. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z A knot of sullen football boys trudged past us, giving us dirty looks. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He had played football for the Air Force and, briefly, for the New York Jets. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On the University of Washington campus, the glass skylights at the basketball pavilion caved in, giant Douglas firs toppled over, and five sections of temporary seating in the football stadium blew away. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z There was no way that many people from Dallas would come to a football game 350 miles away in Odessa, and he did not want to tie up such a large number of tickets. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z If I want to be on the football team, I need a parent’s signature. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z This comes as almost more of a surprise than anything else Phil has told me because he’s literally the poster boy for Batavia High School football. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Three children and an old man were playing football with a tin can on the other side of the square. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z My heart felt like an exploding football in my chest. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Make no mistake, football is still my least favorite sport, but I actually really like going to the homecoming game. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z After breakfast they did calisthenics and other physical exercises and played football or other games. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I had seen football fans act the way I felt. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Blondes, wars, famines, football, sex, music, coups d’etat—they all arrived on the same train. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I watched the football practice from a distance. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z There was instant and total chaos in the back row, the one nearest to the football field, because the portables themselves were starting to break apart and move. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Raymond Starnes, the principal of Odessa High, agreed, stating that “football is in the eye of the storm in the controversy over boundaries.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s why Bun doesn’t smoke. Some clean-living type of football coach got to him at an impressionable age.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The barber had the football game on the TV The calendar showed a vodka bottle and a pretty girl in a white fur bikini. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I couldn’t see the people wearing their feathers at football games on TV and on Halloween and not think that’s not right. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z If he were to add a polo shirt with a whistle around his neck, he’d look suspiciously like Mr. Connors, the thick-necked football coach at my high school. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z We girls didn’t really know football terms—American or any other kind—but we understood our teacher. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z By the time I’m dressed, the parades are over and Dad is watching football. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Even though the football season had already started and it was clear to the rest of the world I wasn’t going to join the team, Freddie wouldn’t stop. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Lou stands up five rows in front of us, and I can see his football buddies slapping various parts of his anatomy. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In front of them about a football field away, he saw a tall metal fence with looping razors at its top. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Little by little the football teams at Odessa High started changing, and so did the makeup of the student body it served. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’d be picking which college I was going to attend later this fall. I’d have taken my SATs, gone to football games and prom, taken chemistry...” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z A school bus moved in the distance beyond the football goalpost. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z They seem to live always at a football match. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Some sent glossy football programs; some, personalized mail- grams. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t want the adulation of the fellows anymore—he simply wanted to be The Goober, to play football and to run in the morning. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The yell continued—it was Lewis, one of the running backs for the football team. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z She was supposed to play that next night—Monday—at Parker High School’s first football game of the year. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z As the lightning flashed and the thunder cracked, I, the unsung quarterback of an unsung team, rose up out of that mud not once, but twice, to achieve football immortality. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Roy held the package of meat on his lap, covering it with both arms like a fullback protecting a football. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And we are horrible singers, but we sing really loud, so Casey and the other football players couldn’t do anything about it. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The clapping sound of shoulder pads transforming a scrawny kid into a larger-than-life football player. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z "So who's going to look like the classiest guy there? Besides, what do you know—you're not even going—to the dance, that is. The football game, however? Different story." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Our cheerleaders are much better at scoring than the football team is. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Because of their skill, blacks were openly coveted in Odessa in the football arena. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “It would be very nice if we could make a decision irrespective of football,” said school board member Lee Buice, “but that may be where the gauntlet is thrown.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Unlike Erik, he seems to have no special talent for football. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z "That crafts closet is big enough to hold two football players. Just saying," she mutters, and turns back to the video screen. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z And in the space in between, at floor level, were the other honored guests of the evening—the senior football players. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z My brother is busy being a football player at Penn State. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Carter’s decked out in his Chumley Prep letter jacket—probably to remind everybody what a huge football star he is. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z No quarterback or cornerback or anyone else in any way associated with football had ever invited him to do anything. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z From now on, wherever he went, he’d be closely trailed by a military aide carrying a forty-five-pound briefcase containing launch authentication codes and sophisticated communications devices, often referred to as the nuclear football. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Love always, Charlie November 18, 1991 Dear friend, My brother finally called yesterday, and he can’t make it home for any part of Thanksgiving weekend because he is behind on school because of football. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z We ride past lower campus, the football stadium, and then the tennis courts, just waiting to see where the truck will stop. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Three hundred and fifty miles to the west, there was no need to find a catalyst for the zeal that could be created by a winning high school football team. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She skipped past a cluster of football boys without so much as a glance. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Every football game rubbed a healthy dose of salt in the communal wound—and since all of those games were lost, it doubled the pain. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z There wasn’t much to do in our small town, but we were content going to the mall, getting our nails done, going to football games, and gossiping about guys. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “Here, the cool kids, the popular kids, whatever that means, are the theater kids, and the football players are the ones trying to be cool.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Yes, Warren had been the starting running back on the football team; yes, he’d been a forward on the hockey team as well. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Auntie made it clear to everyone that it was all necessary if Rocky were to keep his football scholarship to the university. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z But, thanks to Shawn Crow, never, ever Permian football. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It isn’t until we’re changing out of our cheer uniforms after the football game that tomorrow night’s dinner comes up. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z There was the time Mr. Christopher had had to pin back his arms to stop him attacking Reggie D. during football practice. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Brandon seems to have left the sex tape, his secretly recorded session with Cheryl Moody, in a football teammate’s locker—accidentally on purpose, as it is said. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z A sports column caught his eye, and squinting, he could read the neatly printed description of a noon- recess touch football game. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z The following week, a hearing began in Judge Davis’s court-room to consider once again Carter’s right to play football. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z To my surprise, it's a guy wearing a football jersey. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The next burst of applause at the Watermelon Feed came when it was time to introduce the members of the Permian football team individually. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, I’m not going to have you sitting in a freezing-cold football stadium. You need bed rest.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Father Judge’s football team was perennially one of the best in the city. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z I guess a lot of people like football. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z But she remained where she was in the middle of several football players. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But on Friday nights in Odessa, you could gaze down at the football field and see several black players tearing up the field for Permian. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z There was football, baseball, basketball, track, as long as you could keep your GPA above a 2.0. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z We practiced the splits, and bending backward, the high-stepping strut, and I saw myself a sequined princess leading orchestras across a football field, the idol of cheering fans. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z I stood in a goal on the soccer field, looking through the back side of the football stadium bleachers. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They had played on the football team together. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z But when he heard the charge, he yelled out, “Wait a minute! Arthur, is that the guy you told me about? The guy at football practice?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The hole itself was about twice the size of a football field and five hundred feet deep. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Ray, a few years older, played in the six-man touch football league, sometimes against Caucasian teams who would come in from Lone Pine or Independence. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The cafeteria seemed to be half the size of a football field, filled with long tables. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Soccer, baseball, field hockey, football, softball, basketball, swimming, track—all of those are fine. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Sure, I dreamed of having football dates, but my real dream was that one day I would write something that people would actually read. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She would have made a great football player. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Your expe-rience moved me and made this big football player cry. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Big Creek was off football suspension, but Coach Gainer had left for a big school upstate. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Jorge and David throw a miniature football back and forth across the room, and Dario climbs on his desk and starts dancing, flipping his hair, and pouting his lips. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z To the north it includes nearly all of the high school football bleachers that back up onto the middle school. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t necessary to live in Odessa for long to realize that the Permian football team wasn’t just a high school team but a sacrosanct white institution. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t remember any stories of Courtney and any football players. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Even within their bastion of privilege, Brandon is royalty—second generation at St. Joseph’s, football captain, the son of two doctors. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Everybody knew Latin was gay, but he played on Carver’s football team and nobody was going to mess with him. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z Janie used to call Max Movie Guy because he was pretty much the guy in the movies: football player, white straight teeth, friend to all...but a better friend to some. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The motivation for him to change his mind, they felt, was a desire to appease a constituency whipped into a frenzy over high school football. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She called everyone she knew of who had a son on the football team. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Before she could think it through, Eleanor turned the wrong way down the hall and headed for the door to the football field. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z I still wasn’t fast enough, not with an answer in Social Studies, not on the field with a football. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z He plays Pop Warner football and Miri says he’s going to be the quarterback of the high school team next year. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z It was like a Texas football bonfire, but nobody was dancing around it, and nobody was celebrating anything. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s playing football for Penn State but he needed the summer to get his grades right to play football. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z We went into the gym, along a marble hallway, and to my surprise we went on past the Trophy Room, where his name was already inscribed on one cup, one banner, and one embalmed football. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyone who took the time to think about things would realize that things like the prom, school spirit, and who won the football game are utterly insignificant in the larger scheme of things. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But the newscaster on TV said there were already ten thousand people at the football stadium, with thousands more lined up around the building. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z I just got home from signing my letter of intent to play football at a PAC-10 school. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I’m in my room now, at the computer, listening to the sound of Erik kicking a football into a net in the backyard. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Emmett had my door open before the truck was stopped; he pulled me out of the seat, tucked me like a football into his vast chest, and ran me through the door. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z After the quick meal, the three set out across campus to the football stadium. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Most who met Boobie agreed that he was one of those kids for whom the game of football had become as important, as indispensable, as a part of their bodies. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as the football players walked down the school halls in their game jersies on Fridays, so did the cheerleaders in their uniforms. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I sat on a park bench, watched a man toss a football to his son, telling him to not sidearm the ball, to throw over the shoulder. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He felt it when he had to stop playing flag football because his body couldn’t take it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He had become as indoctrinated into the cult of football in Odessa as anyone. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It was mean, but all the boys still wanted to play touch football with Troy at recess. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z That evening, our football team was playing an away game against OPS #0571, which was located roughly an hour’s run from the forest where the tomb was hidden. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I’d been raised on the bedrock of football, basketball, and baseball, but it turned out that East Coast prep schoolers did more. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z For one thing, Chigger was the scrawniest boy ever to ride the bench of the football team. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z But here in Memorial Stadium in Midland, where a nearsellout crowd had gathered to watch a high school football game, none of that seemed to matter. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “We suck at football. Hockey’s our game. Let’s hit the party like champions.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z He even has a football in one hand. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I thought of my father, who showed me how to box and throw a football, same as Craig. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z And now he was in that field house again, not as some gawking, starry-eyed kid, but as a football player, preparing for the semifinal game against the Carter Cowboys. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t mind that it’s emphasized,” she said of football. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not Thanksgiving without football,” one of the guys said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The pageant and football pull this little town out of itself and turn it into something more. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Reggie was a polite boy, and the son who’d already survived a few challenges— the concussions in football; that goofy, lovable awkwardness; the odd birth. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Aware of Odessa High’s frustration on the gridiron and the image problems it caused, the administration had tried to shift the focus of Odessa High away from football into other areas. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z When he interviewed for the job and was given a tour of Odessa, one of the very first sights he was shown was the football stadium. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z There was even a football stadium with electric lights. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Luma didn’t care much for American football, but she thought the boys might enjoy the plot. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “I hear cheerleaders are easy for football players.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “Yeah. News flash. Macho football players can be gay.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “Like you would have ever gone to a football game.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “You’re the new secret weapon. But this is fall. Football, football, football.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Last year, I'd tagged along with Sally, but today she stayed late to watch the boys play football. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t get it. Boys are always wondering why girls go to the bathroom in groups, and yet the entire football team travels in a pack—even off-season,” Monica observes. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z It was a dumb question, because he was the football captain. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Mike told us that he had already been accepted into FSUs School of Engineering, so I don’t think he’s too worried about his future in football, or in anything else. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Like his father Charlie, he was a good, tough football player. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But when new friends introduced me to drugs, I began to lose interest in football. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z It’s amazing, and still, it’s nothing nearly as involved as I’ve seen her do at football games. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I met my friend Nigel because he lived down the hall in college from my friend Tom, whom I met because in freshman year he invited me to play touch football. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Imagine the largest concert crowd you’ve ever seen, a football field packed with a million fans. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Six of us, the last of the football team, followed our fathers to Big T’s. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Baseball in the summer, football in the fall, hockey in the winter, basketball in all the spaces in between. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He’s balding and squarely built and looks like an aging football coach. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z And off he went, trying to exorcise the demon of football. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z There, on Ninetieth and Columbus, were a dozen men playing touch football. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Whether a lawyer, a doctor, a football player, a toilet cleaner, a garbage handler, a panhandler— keep it real and still— be the best you can be. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Bridgitte said she had been advised by a teacher at Permian not to take the SAT exam until after the football season because of her myriad duties as a cheerleader. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But not everybody was John Carter, president of The Vigils, All-Star Guard on the football team, and president of the Boxing Club. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he jogged past Emily and James, clapping his hands like a football coach. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I try to think outside the box— most men use football teams as passwords, I think, but Tom isn’t into football; he quite likes cricket, so I try Boycott and Botham and Ashes. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s toughen up. We knew it was a four-quarter football game when we got on the plane today. We just need to bow up.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The doctor had put in a replacement ligament, but it was hard to construct one that could handle the natural stress caused by the constant starting and stopping of running with the football. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Wes and Woody tossed the football back and forth, waiting for other kids to show up to play. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z He looked at us threateningly and then trudged after the other football boys, who were gathering on the Big Store steps. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I was actually quite hungry because normally Sam and Patrick take me to the Big Boy after the football games, and I guess I was used to it by now. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z After that, it was no longer acceptable to ask a guy to Sadie Hawkins by baking him a plate of cookies or by wearing a T-shirt with his football number on the back. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I suddenly remembered this time, in around October, that I and Robert Tichener and Paul Campbell were chucking a football around, in front of the academic building. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z A-block, probably the largest freestanding cellblock in the world, is 588 feet long, twelve feet shy of the length of two football fields. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They’d go to the Utah State football games and travel to Las Vegas for the regional basketball conference championships. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It was a quiet, sedate kind of place and he was a star there, a starter on the varsity football team as a freshman. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It was enshrined in the county library, where the 235-page history that had been written about Permian football was more detailed than any of the histories about the town itself. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The role of a coach was to win, because this was high school football and this was Odessa. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The Permian fans got tired of the incessant whining of the Odessa High fans, of hearing that the Bronchos’ ineptitude on the football field was always somebody else’s fault. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In high school physical education classes, I withdrew, in the regular company of five or six classmates, to a distant corner of a football field where we smoked and talked. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “My brother’s name was Michael. The football cards were his. He was older than me. He had Down syndrome and leukemia, and was real sick, so my parents had me in order to save him.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z In my mind, the teachers who fit that description were the football coaches with the burr haircuts and quick tempers. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “People who want homework assignments, teachers, school clubs, announcements about charities I should volunteer in, invitations to Executive Pre-Professional football, basketball, squash games...” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z His old poster of the West Ham football team was pinned right next to it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “On the bench. Where we met and you gave me the magic square book. I saw a football jacket and some beers, and I think there was a ring of keys.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He was rough around the edges, a football player, the guy who’d made fun of her car in the church parking lot after she’d gotten in a fender bender. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The first day, we’d watched the gymnastics team perform in an intramural exhibition meet, and then we’d attended a football game. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z It takes four local high schools to field a single football team: the Jefferson- Scranton-Paton-Churdan Rams. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Unlike basketball, football, soccer, there’s not supposed to be any shouting, chattering, or heckling. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z But he was done letting the idiotic football player kick him over and over as if he were a dog. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “You’ve been dancing with the football team ever since Jem came in.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Granted, it’s cross-country, not football, and Heather’s on the team, but still. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z There was never any of the hooping and hollering you got at football or basketball games. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The far wall is decorated with enormous cutouts of football players. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Stadium floodlights borrowed from the football field nearby. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Saturday morning I meet The Red Hearts of Limerick and we wander out the road looking for a football challenge. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Under the football stands were a series of unheated squash courts. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He is a very good football player and likes his car. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z The factory was in an industrial area outside of Mutare, as big as a football field. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “I take it you don’t think a football player can like art?” he asked, shoving a piece of metal to the side before turning back to see if Cas needed help. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z In the United States, football and basketball don’t select, stream, and differentiate quite as dramatically. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Wilkins weighs 136 pounds, and of all the kamikazes who dominate Permian and are eagerly willing to sacrifice their bodies for the great cause of football, he is the most fearless, or foolhardy. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It would have been un-American not to love the best football player. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The war seemed as far away as the football games of some one else’s college. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z "I think I'd rather play football again with what I know about handling myself, now." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z I wondered if it was wise to work up a sweat playing soccer/non-American football if you couldn’t hydrate after. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z I took the sight of this all right, I had seen him on crutches the year before when he broke his ankle playing football. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z But I don't want to think about what would happen if I asked Mom to play football again. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z There was Odessa High, which many old-line supporters felt had become a dumping ground for Hispanics who, among other things, couldn’t play football worth a lick. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z After all, football was what had brought the two of them to-gether in the first place, and it seemed destined to keep them together. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d passed only a couple of freshman football players who acted like they were too cool to notice him stroll by. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z We went to a playground which sported a basketball court, a football field and Ping-Pong tables under awnings. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Bren brought a football to throw around to impress Vanessa, but she totally ignored him. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “I know Coach O's got to be talking to you about playing football, too,” he continued. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Liam is about to apologize until he sees his football friends watching. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Just across the street is the football field, where I can’t play football. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Fang and his bag crashed in the back of Faith's red Sunbird, parked a couple slushy football fields from the Palace. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “If it were nice weather, then there might be touch football outside or time for a run over to the faculty Club for billiards or pool.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Lou is twenty-five years old, dressed in a leather jacket, handsome, cradling Tommy in the crook of his arm in the bleachers at a high school football game. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “I’m not giving any-thing more to Trinity. Not football, not running, not anything.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The book about Johnny Unitas, with its cartoony cover depicting a football player wearing a number nineteen jersey and dropping back to launch a pass, was most likely a children’s book. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z “This was the hub of the mill, the heartbeat,” he said as we stood on a factory floor that was longer than two football fields. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z But Pablo fell and got up, Green on his shoes, With the football Out of reach. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z A Captain of any game, whether it was football, cricket, fives or squash, had many other duties. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Before he could comment, she asked, “What about you? Why are you here instead of off doing whatever it is football players do?” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Every time the ship tilted, a mismatched herd of sports equipment rolled across the floor—footballs, basketballs, baseballs, and for some reason, a single billiard ball. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He took the remote and found the football game. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The only thing that comes close to football is the pageant. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I wished I could go to school with Sohrab, and play soccer/non-American football every day, though I supposed I would have to start calling it regular football. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z I think the boys he’d been playing football with earlier came back, or maybe it was some students strolling by who came and sat down with us. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m sitting next to Jessie, my fluffy cousin, and her little brother, Frankie, who isn’t paying attention to what’s going on at the table because he’s watching the muted football game on TV. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Instead there was re-markable focus on which school, Permian or Odessa High, would ultimately get the greater number of black students, and thereby the greater number of black football players. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “They were like, ‘Nobody quits football for theater.’ Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “Why is it sports is the only thing white people see us being successful at? I don’t want to play football,” he said. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I hate football players, especially at Permian,” said senior Shauna Moody. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Still holding the milk in her right hand, she turned around and flung it at him like a football. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “What the hell you want to play football for? You need more meat on those bones. What the hell you trying to play quarterback for? You’d make a better end. Maybe.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He talked quietly with Wilkins, who was so miserably nervous he had become virtually mute, and Wilkins’s wife, who wore a little pin that had a picture of their son Stan in his football jersey. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z When they got together it was over at his grandmother’s, and that’s where his yard sign was, announcing to the world that he was a Permian football player. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I bought a buffalo chicken sub at Wilkes Deli and sat by myself on a grassy hill overlooking the football field. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z She said nothing else to me until her friends came over that afternoon, when Aunty Ifeoma and Jaja were in the garden and the boys were playing football out front. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Numbers aside, their domination of the football team was astounding. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He had the look of a football player a few years past his prime, the type of guy who ate at buffets. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z They were all dressed in football uniforms like I was, but their jerseys were blue and red, not yellow like mine. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z None of my basketball teammates were injured, so I consider football season to be a complete success and I know that Coach agrees. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Then flash to the people behind the football field fence so desperate for water that they would sell their souls for a thimbleful. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z My dad had traveled to see a football game in Detroit that week, so Mom called him that Saturday and told him about her crazy plan. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Buck looked for support from the other football boys, but they all had their heads down. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Sprawled out across the yellow plain, they covered an area about the size of a football field. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z At the rate he was going, he would no longer be eligible for football once he received his grade for the six-week period. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But now, with soccer games, and football games, and school, and crosscurricular projects, whole chunks of time fly by and I’m amazed at what hour it is. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z If you wore special glasses you could see them spinning through the sky among the bats and homing birds—blondes, wars, famines, football, food shows, coups d’ etat, hairstyles stiff with hair spray. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It must have been September, for the leaves were just turning yellow and some children were throwing a football in a vacant lot. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Mom’s reply was something like, “Dead boys don’t kick footballs.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They had listened to the World Series and really cared who won football games. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z If he wasn’t a typical brain filled with anguish and neurosis, he wasn’t a typical Permian football player either. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Big Dub rattled the ice in his almost-empty glass as Robert Hicks, the Perkins football coach, pulled up to his house. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Jem, who had been lying on his cot reading since daybreak, thrust a football magazine in her face, pointed to a picture, and said, “Who’s this, Scout?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Big Creek High School, Mr. Turner said in his shrill voice, had been placed on football suspension for the 1958 season. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Technically, you need the ‘football’ only for the session. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Girls moved around in football huddles, the way they always do, wearing lots of makeup and spaghetti-strap tops and brightly colored pants and shoes that looked like torture devices. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z They marched straight ahead and made crisp turns without looking over to family members, girlfriends, and even a high school football team that had come in team jackets to wave them off. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z A great football, track, and baseball star, Sam Ransom, traveled all the way from Minneapolis to sign up with the Eighth, and a track star, Binga Dismond, left his medical school studies to enlist. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Say at the picnic table by the football field?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They came to a gentle rise, where the main chamber widened to more than a hundred yards across—wider than the length of a football field. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been robbed of playing football his senior year, robbed of going to college, and probably robbed of ever making something more out of himself than what he was. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Some of the football players are snickering and pointing at her. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “You want to join us, honey? There’s a football game on Channel 9, ’less W.E. cares about this movie.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z “Well, football players are superstitious creatures of habit.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z He’s wearing his red-and-white jersey over his shoulder pads, along with his cleats and helmet—his whole football uniform. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z It resembled the sound of crowds at my high school football games. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But that didn’t stop the old man and the boy from joining the ten thousand who thronged to the stadium on the boulevard to see the traditional high school football game. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Sitting within earshot of a group of reporters at the Giants-Green Bay football game at the Polo Grounds in New York, Howard wondered aloud which race he would choose. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Some are finished, or haven’t started, and sit on their couches watching football or the parade. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I sprinted across the parking lot, around the football stadium, and out onto Route 89. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But, for whatever reasons, the football team just absolutely hated us. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z And I knew a lot of them would watch my brother play football later that day. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z There was exhilaration in the collision, the honest contact of football, not as beautiful maybe as a completed pass or a fake that threw your opponents off balance but beautiful nevertheless and manly, prideful. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I marched down off the bleachers toward the football field, hoping he wouldn’t follow me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Behind the rows of stools stood the stars of the show, the members of the 1988 Permian Panther high school football team. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew the football team was short on players. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He talks like a coach, he acts like a coach, but he is not a football coach. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z After all, Mr. Mwila spoke of more activities than football, and Frieda must have figured out how a list of activities made one subject. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z I started dating a football player who was smart and spontaneous, who liked to have fun. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z From two to four o'clock they were back in class, and afterward, they went to the gymnasium or sports field, where they practiced gymnastics, football, boxing, discus and hand-grenade throwing, and wrestling. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z But he added that he always regretted not being big enough to play football there. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They would need a whole football field for all those parents. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Mike Brown was a warm, easygoing guy, not only the founder of the Geek Club, but one of the school’s football coaches. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Liam’s laughing the whole way, even high-fiving some of his football buddies. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Roberto parked the car in the student parking lot, behind the boys’ gym, next to the football field. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z A tall redhead with an explosion of freckles on his face levitated the old football at the start of a play. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z After sixth-period lunch is over, the entire school population empties into the football stadium. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z The football stadium is that way too, where they hold the Men’s Salvagings. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z A football boy yelled something derisive, but the people kept singing. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z No doubt, tonight he had eyes for nothing but the events taking place on the brightly lit football field. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He was absorbed in a football match involving some younger boys over in the next field and at this stage his mood seemed just fine, tranquil even. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “I needed to be alone, so I went to the football field.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Not a firefighter who could help Kaitlin, but a football player with no way out—just like them. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z It’s all okay though, because I like football, too, and so does Lenny. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z The fans clutched in their hands the 1988 Permian football yearbook, published annually by the booster club to help generate funds for the program. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Black makeup is smeared under her eyes like a football player. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “You did that to Cap! You couldn’t fight your own battles! You had to use the whole football team as a weapon!” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Mr. Lyons had been a famous football star at Mason High School, was highly thought of in Mason, and consequently he now worked around that town in menial jobs. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “It rounds me out,” he said, folding laundry in the family room and watching a Georgia Tech football game on television. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z It reminded Leo of those tunnels that football teams run through when they enter the field. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The East versus West rivalry carried over to football with the annual East-West Shrine Game and added interest every January to the Rose Bowl—then the nearest thing to a national collegiate football championship. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Leaving football practice yesterday, Goober had whispered, “When does the assignment end?” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z So we finish our routine and hit the weights before the football team enters the weight room and starts grunting and trying to see who can bench-press the most L-B-S-es. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I lie back, listening to the soaps, and after a little I try finding it again, and my stupid radio will pick up every Chicago station except the one carrying the football game. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Then he jogged past Emily and James, clapping his hands like a football coach. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z He ran out the front door to meet Woody, who was sitting on the curb lightly tossing a football in the air. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z And then he yelled something in Arabic to Mike, who stood behind the meat cutter holding a turkey breast in his arms like a football. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I ignored her and continued past the football players. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z And in time, we had six children; moved from the shotgun to a duplex apartment to a house, and lived the dream—high school football on Friday nights. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I heard furious whispering among the football boys. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The line moves along at a steady pace, like we’re filing into a concert or a football game. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z He was in good shape because of football but he wasn’t a runner and didn’t know the tricks. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z To a girl I don’t even know outside of cheerleading practices and football games? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Wes noticed goalposts to his right and, assuming they indicated a football field, he smiled. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Moore didn’t object to what the football program had, nor did she object to Gaines’s salary. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I'm on the ground floor, and it's an area about the size of three football fields. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Once, as he and his friends talked about meeting after school to play football, one of them asked, “Has Ifemelu given you permission to come?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He’s spoken to the Detroit Lions football team, and gives a regular presentation to the top high school basketball players in the world when they gather at national clinics. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Then she leads me through a gap in the stands, onto the track that surrounds the football field. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Don, of course, was a football player, which gave him special status among his peers regardless of how he performed in class. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I want to scream, tell her I’m joining football whether she likes it or not. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z They all mourned Rocky that way, by slipping, lapsing into the plans he had for college and for his football career. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Josh shouts, and I turn to see Michael’s dad throw Josh a football. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m entering the school from the back corner that leads out to the football field, but my locker is in the main hall, not far from the principal’s office. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Varsity football and baseball captain, on my way to college just a few months from now. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Ron bellowed back, as though he and Uncle Vernon were speaking from opposite ends of a football field. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z When we arrived, Mary Lou's brothers were running around like crazed animals, jumping over the furniture and tossing footballs. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z The hall sounds like a packed football stadium. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z They did calisthenics together, tossed a football around, took shells out for impromptu rows, and did whatever they could to avoid talking about the upcoming season. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “No, sir! Now I’ve remembered it’s football. But when I made the tackle, I thought it was rugby.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z They aren’t a patch on a woman except they’re better at fixing cars and playing football, just what we need for the improvement of the human race, right? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z First Cap gets crushed by the entire football team, and the coaches practically have to carry him to the nurse. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z It is considered a permanent and inviolate feature of school life, like high school football or the senior prom. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z One in a football uniform and the other in a pink dress and a tiara. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The whole family was gathered around the TV, even my great aunts, who never watch football. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z The football team lost three out of its first four games. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The value of high school football was deeply entrenched. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a big green turtle, about the size of a football, cruising back and forth in the deep water, and he looked just as slow and stupid as the fish did. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the size of three football fields and filled with vendors selling all kinds of things, like fruit, vegetables, and peanuts. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The only time I stop thinking about what my name means is when we’re playing catch with the football Wes brought, and I hear a dog bark. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z A week later, on October 15, Richard Nixon sat in the White House watching football on television while thousands of protestors circled the building. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z And then the quarterback, Brill, showed up with a football, and you know we had to get a scrimmage going right there in the hallway. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z While he excelled at baseball, football, and track, the sport he enjoyed the most was tennis. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z His gut told him it was something serious, an injury that might prevent Boobie from ever playing football again the way he once had. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Twenty-four hours ago, I was yelling at her on a football field, and now she’s grinning at me like it’s the easiest thing in the world. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Mike took his football laundry bag to school today. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z Quentin and I saw their reflections in the case when they came up behind us—Buck and some of the other football boys, looking huge in their green and white letter jackets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It was a tradition in our house to binge on bad disaster movies instead of football or parades. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z About a year later, after Diego got his permit, we drove up there again, just us two, and threw the football in the water and almost drowned trying to swim out to the pier. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z You know, when I won the World Championship in 1972, the United States had an image of a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z And this boy said something about how the football team hasn’t been the same since my brother graduated, and my dad thanked him. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z It was a football romance and it was in Technicolor. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z I did get to see her once on a VCR tape of one of my brother’s football games, but it’s really not the same thing. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Although we routinely knocked the tar out of them in football, there was no way any Big Creek student was going to beat Welch students head to head in a science fair. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It was like a thing with her, picking out what college she wanted to go to and seeing how they did in football games like that. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z All football seasons were hard and took their toll on her. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Try to remember that because if one of our big football players catches you, then there may be the devil to pay. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Just beyond the iron-gated entrance, about a football field's length away, stood a large two-story manor house surrounded by a park and garden. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The Reggie who Phill knew was a friendly little guy, a competitor on the football field and basketball court, as well as with the video game controller. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “My mother's Methodist, so I think that makes us all Methodist. But not my father. He never goes to church. He doesn't want to miss football, probably. Which I think must be a sin.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Sometimes the Carter Cowboys’ football coach, Freddie James, lectured his talented subjects on the evils of what would happen if they acted too wild and showed no respect for rules and order. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The university’s football team had historically been a winning proposition, with an astonishing accomplishment to its credit—a record sixty-three consecutive games without a defeat between 1907 and 1917. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Girls didn’t seem to mind that sort of thing, but to me he was about as erotic as an old football coach. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Gashes the size of football fields would appear at the mountain base, leaving a desolation of broken roots and upturned trees where once there had been a forest. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Instead of swaggering heroically through the halls in their green and white letter jackets, Jim and the football boys trudged to class sullen and trigger-sensitive to insult. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z At recess, I walked up to Thatcher; me—a scrawny elf girl the size of a small second-grader standing up to a future varsity football player, offensive tackle. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z He was telling her about some pro football game he'd seen that afternoon. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z I had never seen it before, not in the kitchen, not at the football games, not when he took us places. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z Then again, I don’t understand why Dad loves football. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We all sat down and watched television instead, and my cousins and my brother talked about football. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z And guys—especially football players like Mitch—wear miniature versions of garters around their arms. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Talk on the church steps afterward was mostly about the football team and its undefeated season. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z On the south playground we sit on the roots of a huge tree and talk about football or Final Fantasy games. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z There were footballs and basketballs lying all over the place, and boys sliding down the banister and leaping over tables and talking with their mouths full and interrupting everyone with endless questions. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z “You know I convinced him to go out for the football team last year? He thinks he’s such a gift to women, but he was nothing without me.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Dad stared at her blankly, so she repeated, “What if Erik has no future as the placekicker for some big-time college football team?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z My father dreamed football dreams, and woke to a scholarship at Ohio State University. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z “I wanted desperately to play football in high school and I never got the opportunity,” he said. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z All I could think through the whole day was that we missed my brother’s football game because of me, and I really hoped my sister thought to tape it. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z All told, nearly eighty thousand Seattleites—far more than Washington’s football stadium could hold—had taken an early start to a gorgeous weekend and come out to watch the races. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z During their road trips across Texas together, his brother Joe Bill had always made a point of showing Mike the great football baronies of Texas—Texas A & M, the University of Texas, Baylor. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Later, I find Dad sunk into the couch in front of a college football game. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z A few feet scraped uneasily on the red, rough surface of the old football field—then, suddenly, Meggie heard something behind her. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Cliff Ackerley and a few other football player types stood at the foot of the bleachers, holding up signs for Ria Wolf, who I gathered was the starting setter. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z For a while it seemed that with the high schools closed, there’d be no football too. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Though it was still August, the air already had the smell of October, football season, piles of yellow-red leaves, everything crisp and clean. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I played football at the stadium and afterward I took some of the boys to town, for akara and fried yams,” he said, when Amaka asked what he had done today. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z This time, Casey Palmer and Nick Matthews weren’t waiting at the side of the football field as the guys came streaming down from the locker room. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Three and a half months of pure devotion to football where nothing else mattered, nothing else made a difference. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked like he was lit from within, like a wax statue in a football hall of fame. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I did not catch up until he stopped near the football goal post. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “When Permian football goes in Odessa,” he said with a laugh late one night, “then everything will go.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z During commercial breaks, she teased him: Why did American football have no inherent logic, just overweight men jumping on top of one another? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Something was rising from the gravel that covered the football field. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “He’s got the physical ability to play pro football,” said L.V. one afternoon, lingering by the practice field even though Boobie wasn’t there. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z At least football players wore uniforms, but boxers wore only the trunks. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as his gaze locked on mine, Mike, who had the football at that point, mowed him over to get to the makeshift end zone. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “But you play football,” was his mother’s first comment. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The sports appetite in that city was insatiable—they had professional teams in football, basketball, baseball, and hockey—and it matched my ambition. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’d rather hold him out and let him take his chances in college. If it wasn’t the football season, it would be much easier,” he said in the silence of the locker room. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I begin a year-long project on how football in America has become ritualistic, almost a religion, an opiate for the masses. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’re going to dress up as girls and model,” he said, pointing behind him to a large group of guys who wore football jerseys. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z You might even say, “We don’t owe anyone our sadness, but the sharing of it is what friends do. It makes the sadness less. Friends don’t care if you like the same football squad.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “Liam told me you’re not playing football. Good for you. Ever since he started, his grades have been abysmal. I’m tempted to make him quit the team.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z There is no football game; it is not possible, as it is in the spring, to take bicycle trips into the surrounding country. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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