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Showing 1 to 20 of 784 for “"Football"”.
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Political Football: Race,College Football, and a Decade to Desegregate
A study of the the era of segregated football at southern universities and the movement through the 1960s leading to the desegregation of the teams.
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Effects of Upward Football Reclassification on Revenues, Football Attendance, and Enrollment
… The schools at the highest level of collegiate football competition enjoy constant national television exposure for their school resulting in many direct and indirect benefits. A repeated measures ANOVA was utilized to assess the change in athletic department revenues, student enrollment and …
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Faulkner And "The Football"
… with popular discourses surrounding collegiate football, and American sports more generally. Although Faulkner is often vieas a paragon of American high modernism, his development as a fiction writer during the "Gold Age of Sports" which spanned the 1920s fostered an attentiveness to popular …
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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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Incidence of football injuries in different age groups at a professional football club
Football is the most popular sport in the world, and it continues to have a progressive annual increase in the number of active players and the number of games played per season, which in turn, leads to an increase in the frequency of injuries. Football is extensively researched worldwide, however, …
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Effect of Football Helmet and Football Helmet/Skull Cap Combination on Core Temperature
… investigation was to determine the effect of a football helmet and a football helmet/skull cap combination increases core body temperature in an exercising athlete. Secondary investigative questions considered the effect of football helmet and football helmet/skull cap combination on interior …
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Football Scouting Methods And Materials
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The player in professional football
… experienced by the player in professional football. The writer wishes to present material that will help the general public and the prospective new players to understand more fully the role of the player in professional football. This study contains information pertinent to professional …
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Junior High School Football Program
… this thesis is to study the junior high school football program regarding organization, procedure, and format. This study will attempt to (1) show the basic needs of junior high school age boys, (2) discuss the advantages of the junior high school program, (3) discuss the disadvantages of the …
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Kinematic implications of football structures
Folding prior to thrust-sheet emplacement is proposed to explain presence of overturned synclines in the footwalls of many thrust-faults in the Appalachian foreland fold- and thrust-belt of southwest Virginia. Investigation of relations in the footwalls of the Saltville and St. Clair thrust-sheets …
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College Football in Turmoil: How Violence, Virility and Social Darwinism Defined College Football, 1880-1915
… movement within the United States on college football between 1880 and 1915. In response to industrialization and urbanization, reform advocates used sports and athletics to develop America’s youth. Concern mounted from critics that young boys were too physically weak and mentally soft. It was …
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Cardiff City Fans: a sociological explanation of their involvement in football cultures and football violence
… accurate and more conceptually advanced view of football violence as practiced by Cardiff City fans both past and present, than the accepted views of football already available at an academic level. Expanding on work carried out at dissertation level, the research will attempt to provide a new …
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'Ladies' football': Gender and the socialisation of women football players in Lancashire c.1916-1960
… significance of, to use their own term, ladies' football in the context of shifting social values with regard to gender roles and the socialisation of working - class women c. 1916 - 1960. The thesis will focus on ladies' football in Lancashire and surrounding districts from the end of the First …
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Australian rules football and distributive justice
Australian Rules football captures the public imagination like no other sport in the country, commanding an almost religious following and monopolising the media. A number of economic and social goods are produced, especially by or through the Australian Football League. Australian football has …
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Hard sell: Australian football in Sydney
Australian Rules football is the nation's most popular spectator sport. Few sporting activities can match the fanaticism, emotion and passion that the game generates. In Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, and Tasmania, Australian Rules football plays a large part in the livelihood of …
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Understanding shoe-surface interactions in football
One of the key aims of modern football shoe manufacturers is to find the balance between developing a shoe that improves performance but also minimises the risk of injury. Traction properties of the outsole play an important part in reaching this balance; high levels of traction are necessary to …
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Mental toughness in elite football officiating
… thesis was to identify factors underpinning football officiating excellence. As a result, this thesis provided an in-depth study into understanding Mental Toughness (MT) and its development within elite football referees. A secondary purpose was to use the findings of the series of studies …
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