Earl Campbell: Yards After Contact

344 Pages·2019·210.683 MB·English

by  Asher Price

EARL CAMPBELL
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E A R L

C A M P B E L L
YARDS AFTER CONTACT
ASHER PRICE
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Copyright © 2019 by Asher Price
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First edition, 2019
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Price, Asher, author.
Title: Earl Campbell : yards after contact / Asher Price.
Description: First edition. | Austin : University of Texas Press, 2019. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: lccn 2018052872
isbn 978-1-4773-1649-8 (cloth : alk. paper)
isbn 978-1-4773-1907-9 (library ebook)
isbn 978-1-4773-1908-6 (non-library ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Campbell, Earl. | Football players—United States—Biography. |
African American football players—Biography.
Classification: LCC GV939.C36 P75 2019 | DDC 796.332092 [B] —dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018052872
doi:10.7560/316498
For my parents and my brothers
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CONTENTS
Introduction 1
PART I
T YLER
14
PART II
AUSTIN
68
PART III
HOUSTON
172
Epilogue 239
Acknowledgments 261
Notes 265
Index 305
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EARL CAMPBELL