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WHERE DREAMS DIE HARD -- SIX-MAN FOOTBALL -- GRIT AND GLORY

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WHERE DREAMS DIE HARD by Carlton Stowers
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Award-winning author Carlton Stowers follows the Penelope Wolverines though the 2004 season in this book that searches in a six-man community to find that simpler time in our lives prior to 9/11.

This is a great read and terrific insight to a six-man program that even die-hard fans know little about. Raised in West Texas, Stowers is no stranger to small town life.

Many six-man fans may wonder, "why Penelope?", a school that hasn't won more that had not won more than one game in a season before 2004.

Penelope is a school where football returned in 2000 after an almost 50 year absence. What Stowers finds is that whatever the town may lack in football tradition, it surely makes up in community support. For the six-man fan, the insight to a team struggling to find its own identity and build a tradition makes you pull for the underdog Wolverines even more, as the season goes on.

Stowers is a tremendous writer who has twice won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Fact Crime Book of the Year and has been nominated for a Pulitzer. He also written several books on sports including MARCUS, the autobiography of Marcus Allen and DALLAS COWBOYS: THE FIRST 25 YEARS.

SIX-MAN FOOTBALL by Coach CH Underwood

This book from Coach Underwood is an updated version of his classic "Texas Six-Man Football", published in 1974. If you do not know, Underwood was the coach of the very first Texas six-man state champions at O'Brien in 1972.

For a fan of six-man football, this book is loaded with tons of history. For a coach or player, it is indespensible.

The original was and remains the "bible" for six-man coaching, if you can find it. But Coach Underwood has taken his original work and supplemented it with sections from some of the best coaches in history, such as: Roddy Maddox, Danny Medina, Harvey Wellman, Nelson Campbell and Lupe Franco, to name a few.

The book is broken down into six parts: The History and Development of the Game, Offensve Strategies, How in the World Can We Stop Them (defense), Rounding out the Game (special teams and getting a team physically ready), Beyond the Texas Public Schools and Miscellany.

In the first section of the book, Underwood has photographs of every Texas public school team that has reached the state finals, as well as a wealth of information about the early game.

The second section of the book, Offensive Strategies, is definitely the meat of the book from a coaching standpoint. Included are 130 pages of descriptions and diagrams on how to score.

The reason I say this book is great for fans (and parents) is that not only is there some historical perspective on six-man, but you also get insight of how some of the great coaches formulate a plan for winning. The technical aspects are so sound, you cannot help but understand the game better.

GRIT AND GLORY by Laura Wilson

An amazing book of photos by photographer Laura Wilson of Dallas.

Wilson is best known in the six-man community as the photographer who took the wonderful photos for the 1995 Texas Monthly article on the Mullin Bulldogs. She is known also as the proud mother of actor/writer/director sons, Luke and Owen.

Wilson became a fan of six-man football after traveling to a game with her husband in the early 1990's. Se has a tremendous talent for capturing the moment and this book is a must have for any six-man football fan.

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