PLAYER BOOKS and MOVIES

Into the Lions Den - Hayden Fry and Jerry Levias

A Marine turned football coach (Hayden Fry) creates a winning tradition wherever he goes. He builds character and is a mentor to young men. His courage is tested in 1965 when he gives a scholarship to...published on 1/1/2023 Learn more

Quinn Early

---

Kinnick: The Documentary

The story of Nile Kinnick: child of the Depression, winner of the Heisman Trophy, and pilot in WW2. The story of a man becoming myth unfolds in cinematic detail in this feature documentary, revealing ...published on 8/24/2022 Learn more

Nile Kinnick

---

The Shoulders of Giants

In 1895, the son of a runaway slave overcame various obstacles and fought racial inequality as he embarked on a journey, becoming the first African-American college football player in the state of Iow...published on 9/4/2021 Learn more

Quinn Early

---

The Shoulders of Giants

In 1895, the son of a runaway slave overcame various obstacles and fought racial inequality as he embarked on a journey, becoming the first African-American college football player in the state of Iow...published on 9/4/2021 Learn more

Frank Kinney Holbrook

---

Slavery in Sports: The Role of the Black Athlete

Former Hawkeye Acie Earl dives into the elements of sports from the Black athletes perspective since the beginning of the arrival in North America. He starts from the origins of pre Africa slavery, th...published on 1/29/2021 Learn more

Acie Earl

---

Walked On: Life Lessons From A Two-Sport Non-Scholarship College Athlete

How does an undrafted free agent and two-sport college walk-on end up in a Chicago White Sox uniform? With a college football career derailed by mononucleosis and a college baseball career shattered b...published on 12/9/2020 Learn more

Brian Kent

---

Die With Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life

Die with Zero presents a startling new and provocative philosophy as well as practical guide on how to get the most out of your money—and out of your life. It’s intended for those who place lifelo...published on 7/28/2020 Learn more

William 'Bill' Perkins III

---

No Excuses: The Making of a Head Coach

Former Iowa player and assistant coach Bob Stoops explains his rise from undersized football player to National Championship coach at Oklahoma, based on his mentoring fr...published on 9/10/2019 Learn more

Bob Stoops

---

The Way of Nile C. Kinnick Jr.: Insights, Images, and Stories of Iowa's 1939 Heisman Trophy Winner

In our lifetimes, many of us have had or still have an individual we look up to; someone who inspires us, challenges us, helps us face adversities, or helps us form a positive outlook on life. Nile Cl...published on 9/4/2018 Learn more

Nile Kinnick

---

Bryant Acres

At the height of slavery in the antebellum south, a free man of color sold himself into indentured servitude and went on to become one of the wealthiest land owners of the time. And in the process bui...published on 8/15/2018 Learn more

Quinn Early

---

Emotion in Motion: The Life and Legacy of Chris Street

More than a recollection of big plays and great games, "Emotion in Motion" tells the touching story of Chris Street, the University of Iowa basketball player whose life was cut short by an accident mi...published on 1/1/2018 Learn more

Chris Street

---

Chuck Long: Destined for Greatness: The Story of Chuck Long and Resurgence of Iowa Hawkeyes Football

The year is 1981. The U.S. space shuttle Columbia takes its first flight. Ronald Reagan becomes president and Muhammad Ali officially retires with 55 wins. 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' debuts in theatres...published on 10/13/2017 Learn more

Chuck Long

---

Unstoppable

Trailblazer Simone Edwards —the first Jamaican (WNBA) player — tells her inspirational journey of persevering through every obstacle, remaining dedicated to the hard work that ultimately earned he...published on 6/9/2017 Learn more

Simone Edwards

---

Growing Up Hawkeye

Growing Up Hawkeye: The inside story of Iowa Football’s 1999-2002 rise to Big Ten champion, told by a walk-on turned NFL draft pick. Derek Pagel arrived at The University of Iowa as a small-town wal...published on 1/1/2014 Learn more

Derek Pagel

---

Complete Wide Receiver

Strong, fast, powerful, intelligent, and focused. Today’s wide receiver must have the total package of physical and mental skills in order to excel at the position. Complete Wide Receiver covers it ...published on 9/28/2012 Learn more

Jay Norvell

---

Duke Slater: Pioneering Black NFL Player and Judge

Fred 'Duke' Slater was the greatest African American football player of the first half of the 20th century. Born into poverty, he developed into a two-time All-American tackle at the University of Iow...published on 7/11/2012 Learn more

Duke Slater

---

Two Decades and Counting: The Streak, The Wins, The Hawkeyes: Thru the Eyes of Roy Marble

The expectations were high, and the results were record breaking. Before the 1986--87 season began, the pre-season AP poll had the Iowa Hawkeyes ranked tenth. Iowa fans suspected it might be low as th...published on 1/27/2012 Learn more

Roy Marble

---

The Two-Edged Sword

For Donald W. Tucker, life from the get-go was a two-edged sword-a "damned if you do/ damned if you don't" black & white shades & wing-tips jungle existence of working the streets of Southside Chicago...published on 7/19/2010 Learn more

Donald Tucker

---

Nile

NILE is a story about a young man who played football in the late 1930s. But it is more than a sports story. The nation was still recovering from the Great Depression and on the cusp of the greatest w...published on 9/4/2008 Learn more

Nile Kinnick

---

A Hero Perished: The Diary and Selected Letters of Nile Kinnick

A Hero Perished tells Nile Kinnick's story. This grandson of an Iowa governor, the son of parents who disciplined him to strive for his measure of greatness, became a Heisman Trophy winner and nationa...published on 9/1/1992 Learn more

Nile Kinnick

---

Ronnie #12

An autobiography written by Ronnie and Brad Loomer shortly a few years after he graduated from Iowa, and started his pro career. Includes photos from growing up, high school, college and the early par...published on 1/1/1983 Learn more

Ronnie Lester

---

Foul: The Connie Hawkins Story

This book is about a professional basketball player, Connie Hawkins, but it is also about American athletics. The hope and despair of the ghetto schoolyard, the cutthroat college recruiting, the camar...published on 1/1/1972 Learn more

Connie Hawkins

---

COACH BOOKS and MOVIES

Into the Lions Den - Hayden Fry and Jerry Levias

A Marine turned football coach (Hayden Fry) creates a winning tradition wherever he goes. He builds character and is a mentor to young men. His courage is tested in 1965 when he gives a scholarship to a high school football star (Jerry Levias) who happens to be Black. Together, the two would help reshape the landscape of college football history in the south....published on 1/1/2023 Learn more

Hayden Fry

---

Graced With Opportunity: A Self-Discovery Journal to Cultivate Your Dreams with Gratitude, Mindfulness, Intention and Strategy

Graced With Opportunity is a six-month undated self-discovery journal. With a simple structured weekly format based on positive psychology research, the journal inspires readers to spend a few minutes each morning and evening disconnecting from their devices and reconnecting with their spirit through gratitude, self-awareness and productivity exercises. This uplifting personal growth tool provides techniques and proven strategies for dreamers and doers everywhere to manifest their goals and greatest desires into reality....published on 1/9/2019 Learn more

George Raveling

---

A Wrestling Life 2: More Inspiring Stories of Dan Gable

What does it take to be an Olympic gold medalist and to coach a collegiate team to 15 NCAA titles? In A Wrestling Life: The Inspiring Stories of Dan Gable, famed wrestler and wrestling coach Dan Gable tells engaging and inspiring stories of his childhood in Waterloo, Iowa; overcoming the murder of his sister as a teenager; his sports career from swimming as a young boy, to his earliest wrestling matches, through the 1972 Olympics; coaching at the University of Iowa from the Banachs to the Brands; life-changing friendships he made along the way; and tales of his family life off the mat. A celebration of determination, teamwork, and the persevering human spirit, A Wrestling Life captures Gable's methods and philosophies for reaching individual greatness as well as the incredible amount of fulfillment and satisfaction that comes from working as part of a team. ...published on 3/15/2018 Learn more

Dan Gable

---

War On The Boards: A Rebounding Manual

Never before in the history of the game of basketball has anyone devoted a single text to the art of rebounding. This book is written with the desire that it will partially fill the void that has existed in basketball literature. Perhaps, this work will guide coaches to place a high degree of emphasis on this neglected phase of the game. Most books devote chapter after chapter to offensive and defensive fundamentals, but include only a few pages of information on rebounding. It is paradoxical that in this era of high powered offenses and defenses, basketball literature fails to give emphasis to the very tools and techniques that are necessary to build strong offenses and defenses — namely, rebounding. Rebounding in basketball is more than a mere fundamental. It represents a struggle or conquest in a form which seldom draws the praise of coach or fan. Rebounding makes basketball a contact sport. Is is symbolic of the sacrifice, the emotion, mental toughness, and hard work which precedes victory in most of life's endeavors. It is my fervent wish that the readers will share with me the joy and excitement that is contained within the world of rebounding. Kindly allow this manual to serve as your constant guide, as you seek a higher level of achievement in basketball. Keep in mind that "It is not where you are today that counts, it's the direction in which you are headed."...published on 2/7/2017 Learn more

George Raveling

---

A Wrestling Life: The Inspiring Stories of Dan Gable

What does it take to be an Olympic gold medalist and to coach a collegiate team to 15 NCAA titles? In A Wrestling Life: The Inspiring Stories of Dan Gable, famed wrestler and wrestling coach Dan Gable tells engaging and inspiring stories of his childhood in Waterloo, Iowa; overcoming the murder of his sister as a teenager; his sports career from swimming as a young boy, to his earliest wrestling matches, through the 1972 Olympics; coaching at the University of Iowa from the Banachs to the Brands; life-changing friendships he made along the way; and tales of his family life off the mat. A celebration of determination, teamwork, and the persevering human spirit, A Wrestling Life captures Gable's methods and philosophies for reaching individual greatness as well as the incredible amount of fulfillment and satisfaction that comes from working as part of a team....published on 6/9/2015 Learn more

Dan Gable

---

Beyond Xs and Os: What I Learned About Friendship and Success from a College Football Legend

Tom Berthel first met Hall of Fame football coach Hayden Fry when, in the mid-1980s, his investment firm, Berthel Fisher & Co., became a corporate sponsor of the University of Iowa Athletic Department. This business partnership not only helped Berthel Fisher establish a winning public image, but it also gave birth to one of the most important and enduring friendships of Tom Berthel’s life. Fry became a mentor and father figure to Berthel, and the wisdom Fry bestowed on him through their mutual friendship taught Berthel invaluable lessons in leadership, motivation, and what it takes to be a winner in business and in life.

These are the lessons that form the core of Beyond Xs and Os. In the book, Tom Berthel recounts the many lessons he learned from Coach Fry—some but not all related to football—and explains how they helped shape his life and business. In each chapter, Berthel outlines a specific lesson he learned from Coach Fry, explains how he integrated these philosophies into his business and personal life, and offers advice to help readers apply them to their own lives and businesses.

Each chapter also features a special “Postgame with Coach Fry” sidebar written by the venerable Coach Fry himself, in which he reflects on the events and lessons depicted in the chapter and offers a deeper perspective on each, enriching the lesson....published on 9/1/2010 Learn more

Hayden Fry

---

Dan Gable's Wrestling Essentials DVD

For instruction in the most vital wrestling moves and techniques, legendary coach and wrestler Dan Gable has put together the Dan Gable Wrestling Essentials DVD.

In this DVD, Gable uses live action footage to present his expert instruction, tips, and insights. Wrestling's master technician provides highly skilled demonstrations by world-class wrestlers to show you the techniques used most successfully in matches....published on 7/27/2010 Learn more

Dan Gable

---

Standing Tall: A Memoir of Tragedy and Triumph

'Work hard, and don’t look for excuses', C. Vivian Stringer’s parents told her, 'and you can achieve anything.' But her faith and perseverance would be tested many times.

A gifted athlete, she had to fight for a place on an all-White cheerleading squad in the 60s. In 1981, just as her coaching career was taking off, her 14-month-old daughter, Nina, was stricken with spinal meningitis. Nina would never walk or talk again. Still grieving, Stringer brought a small, poor, historically Black college to the national championships - a triumph hailed as “Hoosiers with an all-female cast.” In 1991, her husband, Bill, fell dead of a sudden heart attack, but that same year, she led yet another young team to the Final Four.

Through these dark times and others, Stringer has carried her burdens with grace. Given her history, it was no surprise that she led her team to respond to Don Imus’s slurs with dignity and courage.

Standing Tall is a story of quiet strength in the face of punishing odds. Above all, it is an extraordinary love story - love for the game, for the players she has coached, for her close-knit family, and for the husband she lost far too soon. It will resonate long after the last word....published on 3/4/2008 Learn more

C. Vivian Stringer

---

A Season on the Mat: Dan Gable and the Pursuit of Perfection

A Season on the Mat chronicles the dramatic 1996-97 season, in which Gable led his team -- far from his most talented -- to a record-breaking performance at the national championship, at which it scored the most points in collegiate wrestling history. Zavoral takes the reader behind the scenes into the stifling heat of the wrestling room, where young men from places like Rock Falls, Illinois, or Philip, South Dakota, sacrifice everything they have just to be a part of the Hawkeye program....published on 1/9/2007 Learn more

Dan Gable

---

Hayden Fry: A High Porch Picnic

A "high porch picnic" is a Texas expression for "an exceptionally good time" During Hayden Fry's glorious career as one of college football's most unique coaches, that's a good way to describe his life. Ranked 10th on the all-time collegiate list for Division 1 victories, Fry successfully combined his football coaching savvy with a down-home charm to make him one of the game's most colorful personalities. Hayden Fry tells of his childhood days in Odessa, Texas, his introduction of African-American athletes to the Southwest Conference, his relationships with various celebrities such as George Bush and Roy Orbison, and his rise to fame as the State of Iowa's most recognizable citizen....published on 3/1/1999 Learn more

Hayden Fry

---

Coaching Wrestling Successfully

Dan Gable redefined the term wrestling champion, setting a new standard of excellence for athletes and coaches. Defeated only once throughout his high school and college wrestling careers and unscored upon in his 1972 Olympic gold medal performance, Gable didn't just win on the mat, he dominated his opponents in a relentless, physical style.

Gable brought that same competitive toughness and determination to mastering coaching-and the championships came, year after year. In the 21 seasons he was head coach, his University of Iowa teams won 15 national championships and 21 Big Ten championships.

Now, in Coaching Wrestling Successfully, Gable presents the blueprint to becoming a wrestling champion. He covers every facet of his formula for success-a guiding philosophy, proven motivational tools, guidelines for proper nutrition and weight control, daily and year-round practice plans, effective instructional methods, correct wrestling technique, and winning match strategies. ...published on 9/28/1998 Learn more

Dan Gable

---

Evy and the Hawkeyes: The Glory Years

A history of Forest Evashevski's coaching career at Iowa...published on 9/1/1983 Learn more

Forest Evashevski

---

Kings of the mat: The story of the rise of wrestling at the University of Iowa

Written by former wrestler Chuck Yagla...published on 1/1/1977 Learn more

Dan Gable

---

Scoring Power with the Winged T Offense

No description available...published on 1/1/1957 Learn more

Forest Evashevski

---

Ins and Outs of Baseball

A guide for coaches and teachers on how to train beginner and advanced baseball players. A very detailed book full of topics such as travel expenses, slang, diet, exercises, superstitions, medical issues and much more....published on 1/1/1951 Learn more

Otto Vogel

---