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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"American Football"”.
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Optimizing American Football Kickoffs
The kicker's goal during a kickoff is to strategically minimize the starting field position of the opposing team. This gives his team an advantage by making it less likely for the opponent to score. To determine the initial velocity and angle that minimizes the field position, an aerodynamic model …
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MOVING BLACK-BOXING TOWARDS STATISTICS: CASE STUDIES FROM AMERICAN FOOTBALL
… our proposed emphasis through case studies from American football: expected points, win probability, and NFL draft position value curves.
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The Effects of Stress on American Football Overhand Throw Accuracy
<p>The American overhand football throw is a highly scrutinized position because of all the different kinds of stress both physical and psychological that are put onto those players. The current study sought to develop a formula using psycho-emotional and physical variables to predict the …
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‘Invaded by Daughters of Eve’: Women Playing American Football, 1890-1960
This thesis examines the history of women playing American football in the United States in the period 1890-1960, a sport that from its very beginning was a means for men to demonstrate their manliness and masculinity. The thesis is primarily a media study which uses an extensive range of newspaper …
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An Evaluation of the Physical Demands of American Football Training in the NFL
American football is one of the most popular sports in the United States. However, unlike other football codes, little is known about its physical demands. Aside from a limited amount of research conducted on college players during training and matches, no research exists on players at the elite …
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Influence of approach angle on ball velocity during the American football instep placekick
<p>High ball velocity in American football placekicking (PK) enhances the opportunity to score during competition. Insight into self-selected (SS) approach angle and whether an optimal angle exists for maximal ball velocity may improve performance. Methods: Three selected approach angles (30°, 45°, …
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Quantifying Exertion for American Football Linemen via Force, Acceleration, and Heart Rate Measurements
… activities that are mostly dynamic in nature. American football linemen spend most of their energy maintaining static loads; thus, they are in need of a new exertion metric. To design this metric, acceleration, force, and heart rate data is recorded over different weight lifting, running, and …
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Rotational traction at the American football shoe-surface interface and its application to ankle injury
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Department of Engineering Mechanics, 2009
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Examining the relationship between performance, recovery, and salivary biomarkers in NCAA DI American football athletes
NCAA American football athletes undergo extensive training and performance demands. While inflammatory and hormonal biomarkers have been linked to performance and recovery in professional and elite athletes, this relationship remains less understood in collegiate athletes across a competitive …
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The influence of playing styles and team proficiencies on play call predictability in the NFL
National football League (NFL) teams are unusual in team invasion sports as they are an aggregation of sub-teams (offence and defence), hence research conducted on American football should reflect this fundamental difference. However, research has typically quantified technical behaviours related …
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DTI, structural network connectivity, and neurocognitive changes associated with subconcussive impacts in youth football players
American football has the highest rates of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) among youth athletes (age 8-13 years) in the United States. It is well established that concussions can lead to disruption of white matter (WM) microstructural integrity and lead to neurocognitive impairment. Little is …
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Athlete Monitoring in American Collegiate Football
American football is one of the most popular sports in the United States. However, in comparison to other mainstream sports such as soccer and rugby, there is limited literature using scientific principles and theory to examine the most appropriate ways to monitor the sport. This serves as a …
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Improving energy dissipation to lower concussion risk in football helmets
American football is notorious for being a high impact sport. There exists an especially high amount of danger to each player's brain, created in part by gameplay, but also from the helmets worn by the athletes. Football helmet pads were comparatively investigated, in order to find a better …
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More than just a game: the impact of sports on racial segregation in one southern town
… Georgia, based on interviews with nine Black football athletes who played for Valdosta High School during that period. The Valdosta High School football team had a tradition of excellence that was recognized throughout the state of Georgia. Valdosta and most of Lowndes County had a clear …
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Towards a Critical Coaching Curriculum
… investigate its availability or absence within American football coaching curriculum outside of the traditional education setting. The study examines texts written by or about football coaches to find where critical pedagogy exists and what it looks like within coaching curriculum. The research …
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"The Day Beyoncé Turned Black": An Analysis of Media Responses to Beyoncé's Super Bowl 50 Halftime Performance
… and her insertion of political speech into American football. The second method is a rhetorical analysis via the concept of the rhetorical enthymeme. I argue that the conservative framings of themes within the media’s response utilize unstated assumptions that are rooted in the ideological …
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Capitalizing on orthodox masculinity: the NFL, capitalism, and the pedagogy of becoming "controlled fury"
We often hear critics of American football blame the homosocializing space of the locker room as the site of lessons, player-to-player, on toxic masculinity. This dissertation problematizes that assertion by outlining a pedagogy largely scripted by the institutional powers of the NFL. There are …
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Analytics in professional sports: Applications of analytics in tennis
… two decades, especially in major sports such as American football, basketball, baseball, and soccer. Professional tennis has not developed analytics to this level yet, but there is a litany of research on the different technology platforms that are currently available and being developed for the …
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Effectiveness of a Shoulder Strengthening Intervention on the Incidence Rate of Glenohumeral Joint Instability Injuries
… Shoulder injuries are frequently sustained in American football due to the contact and collision aspect of the sport. Injuries to the shoulder account for about 10% to 20% of all musculoskeletal injuries that occur in football and the shoulder is the fourth most commonly injured joint behind …
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Perceptions Of Athletic Training Services Of Japanese Collegiate Student Athletes
… A total of 285 collegiate student athletes from American football, rugby, women's track and field, and men's basketball teams. Main Outcome Measure(s): Athletes' levels of perceptions and satisfactions were assessed using online survey consisted of 35 questions (Matsuno Athletes Perception …
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