Title Advancing the ball : race, reformation, and the quest for equal coaching opportunity in the NFL / N. Jeremi Duru.

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New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

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Description	1 online resource (xv, 204 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Law and current events masters
	Law and current events masters.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Baltimore love -- An idea's origin -- Superior performance, inferior opportunities -- Enter the godfather -- The Rooney Rule -- The coaching carousel -- Millen, Mooch, and the great Detroit hiring debate -- Birth of an alliance -- A season of dreams -- Digging new wells -- Road to Super Bowl XLI.
Summary	Two days before Super Bowl XLI in 2007, the game's two opposing head coaches posed with the trophy one of them would hoist after the contest. It was a fairly unremarkable event, except that both coaches were African American--a fact that was as much of a story as the game itself. As Jeremi Duru reveals in Advancing the Ball, this unique milestone resulted from the work of a determined group of people whose struggles to expand head coaching opportunities for African Americans ultimately changed the National Football League. Since the league's desegregation in 1946, opportunities had grown plent.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	National Football League.
	National Football League.
	Discrimination in sports -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Discrimination in sports.
	United States.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Discrimination in employment -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Discrimination in employment.
	African American football coaches -- History -- 20th century.
	African American football coaches.
	United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
	Race relations.
Chronological Term	1900 - 1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Duru, N. Jeremi. Advancing the ball. New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011 9780199736003 (DLC) 2010017903 (OCoLC)611038511
ISBN	9780199792269 (electronic book)
	0199792267 (electronic book)
	9780199736003
	0199736006

Title Advancing the ball : race, reformation, and the quest for equal coaching opportunity in the NFL / N. Jeremi Duru.

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