Books Published by PFRA Football Publications
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The 1951 Los Angeles Rams: Profiles of the NFL's First West Coast Champions - by Professional Football Researchers Association. The 1951 Los Angeles Rams were one of the greatest teams in professional football history. Led by pioneer owner Daniel Reeves, head coach Joe Stydahar, and future Hall of Famers Bob Waterfield, Norm Van Brocklin, Elroy Hirsch, Tom Fears, and Andy Robustelli, the team won the NFL championship of that season. In doing this, they defeated the defending champion Cleveland Browns in a fantastic rematch of the 1950 title game. The Rams were the first team in a major professional sports league to relocate to the West Coast, forever changing the face of the NFL and professional sports in America. Fueled by an exciting and accomplished lineup of veteran star players and impactful rookies, the product of the Rams’ innovative scouting system and their reintegration of the NFL in 1946, the Rams successfully married the NFL to the glamorous world of Hollywood. Delve into the story of the ’51 Rams, the NFL’s First West Coast Champions. |
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The 1958 Baltimore Colts: Profiles of the NFL's First Sudden Death Champions - by Professional Football Researchers Association. The 1958 Baltimore Colts were one of the greatest teams ever in professional football. Owned by the controversial Carroll Rosenbloom and led by head coach Weeb Ewbank and six future Hall of Fame players--Johnny Unitas, Raymond Berry, Lenny Moore, Jim Parker, Art Donovan and Gino Marchetti--they won the NFL title that season, defeating the New York Giants in the first sudden death championship game in NFL history. The Colts laid the foundation for the ultra-popular spectacle football would become with the American public.
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The All-America Football Conference: Players, Coaches, Records, Games and Awards, 1946-1949 - by Professional Football Researchers Association. The All-America Football Conference and the National Football League battled for supremacy from 1946 through 1949. In the end, the players from the AAFC, as well as three teams, were brought into the NFL, including many future members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Through extensive research, the Professional Football Researchers Association (PFRA) has corrected the statistics and coaching records, selected All-Pro Teams for all four seasons and an All-Conference team, and provided brief biographies and scouting reports for the members of the All-Conference Team. Unlike All-Pro teams selected at the time, in which offense and defense were merged into a single position, the PFRA has selected individual offensive and defensive All-Pro teams. |
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The 1966 Green Bay Packers: Profiles of Vince Lombardi's Super Bowl I Champions - by Professional Football Researchers Association. The 1966 Green Bay Packers were one of the greatest teams in professional football history. Led by legendary head coach Vince Lombardi and 10 future Hall of Famers--including Bart Starr, Jim Taylor, Forrest Gregg, Willie Davis and Ray Nitschke--they were the decisive winners of Super Bowl I, defeating the Kansas City Chiefs and upholding the superiority of the National Football League over the upstart American Football League. This book tells the story of the hard-working '66 Packers on the gridiron and their legacy in Titletown, USA. |
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One volume edition of the Early History of Professional Football. Starting with the origins of American Football from ancient times to the development of the sport in Western Pennsylvania (1890-1903) and all the way through the 1919 pro football season, a year before the the NFL was formed, the Early History of Professional Football is a very detailed look back at the beginnings of America's favorite sport. |
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A one-volume edition of the original two-volume PFRA publication, this book tells the story of the longest-running minor league of its era: the American Association, which existed from 1936-41, closed for the duration of World War II, then returned in 1946 renamed the American Football League. The season-by-season history also includes 1942, when several of the league's teams kept playing as part of an independent circuit in the Northeast. The account of each season includes text, standings, statistical leaders, line scores for all games, rosters for each team, and a new feature in this edition, game-by-game lineups. |
Recent Books by PFRA Members
The 1963 Chicago Bears: George Halas and the Road to the NFL Championship
1965: The Most Exciting Season
The 2003-Yard Odyssey: The Juice, the Electric Company, and an Epic Run for a Record
49ers Legends from the Golden Age of Pro Football
America's Trailblazing Middle Linebacker: The Story of NFL Hall of Famer Willie Lanier
Bears vs. Cardinals: The NFL’s Oldest Rivalry
Border Boys: How Americans from Border Colleges Helped Western Canada to Win a Football Championship
Bronko: The Legendary Story of the NFL’s Greatest Two-Way Fullback
Buck Shaw: The Life and Sportsmanship of the Legendary Football Coach
The Buffalo Bills: An Illustrated Timeline of a Storied Team
The Buffalo Sports Curse: 120 Years of Pain, Disappointment, Heartbreak, and Eternal Optomism
The Canadian Pro Football Encyclopedia: Every Player, Coach and Game, 1946-2010
The Columbus Panhandles: A Complete History of Pro Football's Toughest Team, 1900-1922
Coach George Allen: A Football Life
Connecticut Gridiron: Football Minor Leaguers of the 1960's and 1970's
The Cookie That Did Not Crumble
Crash of the Titans: The Early Years of the New York Jets and the AFL
Dutch Clark: The Life of an NFL Legend and the Birth of the Detroit Lions
The Football 100: The Story of the Greatest Players in NFL History
Free Spirit at Free Safety: The Incredible (But True!) Football Journey of Bill Bradley
Game Changers: The Greatest Plays in Buffalo Bills Football History
Great Eighties: A Journey Through Another Exciting Decade in Pro Football History
The Greatest American Football Story that Has Never Been Told: How Gridiron Stopped the War
The Greatest Story in Sports: Green Bay Packers 1919-2019
Green Bay's Greatest: Profiles of the Packers in the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Gridiron Gauntlet: The Story of the Men Who Integrated Pro Football, In Their Own Words
Gridiron Gypsies: The Complete History of the Carlisle Indian School Football Team
Gridiron Legacy: Pro Football’s Missing Origin Story
Gridiron Legends-The Players Who Changed the Game
How Football Became Football: 150 Years of the Game's Revolution
"THE KING" Hugh McElhenny-A San Francisco 49ers Legend
Kezar Stadium: 49ers Fans Remember
The Life and Teams of Johnny F. Bassett: Maverick Entrepreneur of Football, Hockey and Tennis
The Lost Super Bowls: 1961 to 1965 - A Fictional Scrapbook
LSU Bowl Games: A Complete History
Majesty and Mayhem: Pro Football of the 1980s
The Man Who Built the National Football League: Joe F. Carr
Marion Motley: A Life in and Beyond Football
Moving The Chains: The Civil Rights Protest That Saved The Saints And Transformed New Orleans
A Nearly Perfect Season: The Inside Story of the 1984 San Francisco 49ers
NFL Head Coaches: A Biographical Dictionary, 1920-2011
The NFL in the 1970s: Pro Football Most Important Decade
The NFL's 60-Minute Men: All-Time Greats of the Two-Way Player Era, 1920–1945
None Yards!: 30 Years of John Madden in the Broadcast Booth
Nifty Nineties: The Stories of an Amazing Decade in Pro Football History
Nothing Comes Easy: My Life in Football
Old Leather: An Oral History of Early Pro Football in Ohio, 1920-1935
The Original Buffalo Bills: A History of the All-America Football Conference Team
The Orange Bowl: A Complete History
Outsiders: Minor League and Independent Football 1923-1950
Outsiders II: Minor League and Independent Football 1951-1985
Pop Warner: A Life on the Gridiron
Pro Football in the 1960s: The NFL, the AFL and the Sport's Coming of Age
The Pro Football Playoff Encyclopedia
Pro Football Schedules: A Complete Historical Guide from 1933 to the Present
The Providence Steam Roller: New England's First NFL Team
Red Grange: The Life and Legacy of the NFL's First Superstar
Relics: The History of the Buffalo Bills in History and Memorabilia
Sacramento: Pro Football's First Triathlon City
Starless: The 1947 Pittsburgh Steelers
A Statistical History of Pro Football: Players, Teams and Concepts
Sweet Seventies: The Play-by-Play of Another Classic Decade in Pro Football History
The Super '70s: Memories from Pro Football's Greatest Era (Revised Edition)
Touchdown in Europe: How American Football Came to the Old Continent
Unitas to Unitas: Life's Lessons Passed Down from Father to Son
Vagabond Halfback: The Saga of Johnny Blood McNally
Walter Lingo, Jim Thorpe, and the Oorang Indians
Wards of the League: The Untold Story of the First NFL Team in Dallas
War Football: World War I and the Birth of the NFL
The World's Greatest Pro Gridiron Team: the 1903 Franklin All-Stars