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Wayne Stewart - Remembering the Stars of the NFL Glory Years

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Remembering the Stars of the NFL Glory Years

2017

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Preface

„… more willenjoy reliving the Golden Age of football.”—Mike Ditka, Hall ofFame tight end“Wayne Stewart …” „… the NFL glory years : an inside look at the golden age of football /Wayne Stewart.Other titles …” „… Age of FootballWayne StewartROWMAN & LITTLEFIELDLanham • Boulder • New York • LondonPublished by …”

1 The Best Offensive Players S. 1-48

„… he could takeadvantage of.”Sticking with quarterbacks, the golden age produced a passel of Hall …” „… football at the age of forty, commendablefeats of longevity and by-products of talent. Then there’s George …” „… ’ regular quarter-back, Daryle Lamonica, Blanda’s heroics left the world of football reel-ing. At the age of …”

6 The NFL Then and Now S. 165-206

„… leaguehistory.Football fans and players were closer back in the golden age thanthey are now. Players were much more …” „… for too long in the world of sports. Football,naturally, has evolved and, in some ways devolved, over …” „… that ladder pretty well.”While football relied upon the run game virtually 100 percent of thetime long …”

5 The Best of the Rest S. 121-164

„… plays.”Despite a lack of size, Jordan was inducted into the College FootballHall of Fame in 1983, seven years …” „… ability to find the football“a combination of skill, luck, and being in the right place at the righttime …” „… of Boyd must also have liked him as he was selectedto the Pro Football Hall of Fame All-1960s Team …”

3 Funniest Quotes and Tales S. 67-80

„… Eagles (four-teenth overall pick) in 1968. He played in just two years of the1950s–1960s golden age, but …” „… was telling fans of hisFlorida Seminoles team about a fire at Auburn’s football dormitory, oneFUNNIEST …” „… in the US Marines. A veteran of action in the South Pacific, hewas also the first pro football player …”

4 The Toughest Players S. 81-120

„… love for the game of football—I practicedevery day with those guys and never got an opportunity to play …” „… during thegolden age of the NFL, if for no other reason than because of today’srules versus rules that …” „… Anniver-sary All-Time Team in 1994, and, of course, he was inducted into thePro Football Hall of Fame. In 1969 …”

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Stefan Rinke, Kay Schiller - The FIFA World Cup 1930 – 2010

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The FIFA World Cup 1930 – 2010

2014

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David Goldblatt Another Kind of History. Globalization, Global History and the World Cup S. 13-29

„… and the World Cup I David Sheepshanks, chairman of Ipswich Town once remarked, “Football is an …” „… mean something. Yet at the same time football can be the most emotionally inarticulate of games. How …” „… library of footballers’ autobiographies without finding a glimpse of an authentic emotion, or an …”

Thomas Raithel The German Nation and the 2006 FIFA World Cup S. 353-371

„… the national symbolic significance of the German national football team. - I then turn to one of the …” „… central aspects of the media’s staging of the football World Cup, namely the phenomenon of “public …” „… positive national self-representation: this in no way new but in an age of increased global competition …”

Tony Mason England 1966 and All That S. 185-198

„… part of those who saw it felt they would nod over happily in old age, smiling a secret faraway smile …” „… invoking the loss of Empire and the future of the pound”. Would a successful football tournament help …” „… . What follows relies on the excellent account in Bryon Butler’s The Official History of the Football …”

Bibliography S. 389-402

„… and other matters: the era of football-politics, in: Journal of Modern Italian Studies; vol. 5.3 …” „… Integration of South African Football, 1976-1992, African Historical Review 42 (2), 1-18, 2010. -/Bolsmann …” „… Deutschland, Münster 2004, 215-240. Butler, Bryon: The Official History of the Football Association, MacDonald …”

Alan Tomlinson FIFA: Beginnings, Tensions, Trajectories S. 30-46

„… . Verdyck, general secretary of the Union Royale Belge des Sociétés de Football-Association, wrote to FA …” „… of association football itself (and many other modern sports) was coterminous with the rise of …” „… prowess and world superiority; Eric Hobsbawm called football “the child of Britain’s global economic …”

Brenda Elsey Football at the “End” of the World. The 1962 World Cup S. 162-184

„… the football history written in the midst of the Cup. According to these articles, football’s “golden …” „… | 162 | Brenda Elsey Football at the “End” of the World The 1962 World Cup1 During the years of …” „… ”, La Nación, 5 June 1962, 40- 42. FOOTBALL AT THE “END” OF THE WORLD | 163 | Chileans were less than 35 …”

Albrecht Sonntag France 98 – A Watershed World Cup S. 318-336

„… this last week of the 1998 World Cup. These were days of all-encompassing euphoria like only football …” „… , as we now can observe in hindsight, it is a tipping point in the history of football. In other words …” „… repositioning of the national team within the space of international football. A World Cup of New Dimensions …”

Christian Tagsold Remember – Forget. The 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea / Japan as Reconciliation of a Dark Past? S. 337-352

„… semantic frame of reference set up during the colonial rule of Japan. In contrast, Japanese football …” „… Olympic flame into the stadium at the age of 76 – much to the surprise of the public which, after …” „… development but the wish of Japan Football Association officials to popularize football in Japan and to …”

Ángel Bahamonde Magro The 1982 World Cup. Ambitions of the New Democratic Spain S. 259-276

„… the football associations of Mexico, West Germany, Argentina and Spain, respectively. The agreement …” „… setting which helps us to understand the “Spanish World Cup”. Since the civil war of 1936-1939, football …” „… masses; in other words, he promoted the passive football spectator who liberated himself of his …”

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STADION Volume 46 (2022) Issue 1 ISSN Online: 2942-3430

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Jim O’Brien Foreshadowing Apocalypse: Football, Politics, and Culture in Spain, 1920–36 S. 51-73

„… , Spain was a nation at a crossroads, torn between fading images of its golden age of imperial conquest …” „… close Spain’s “Golden Age” dating back to the renaissance period, an era of conquest in the Americas, of …” „… football.Thirdly, the seminal changes in the Spanish game during the 1920s are considered in the context of the …”

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STADION Volume 40 (2014) Issue 1 ISSN Online: 2942-3430

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Leif Yttergren The Professionalisation and Scientification of Athletics Training in Sweden 1910-1957. Two Examples: Ernie Hjertberg and Gösse Holmér S. 57-72

„… true of Gunder Hägg and Anders Gärderud. The latter was the gold medallist in the 3,000 metres …” „… Hjertberg returned to his home city of New York after his career, and he died there in 1952 at the age of …” „… ideologist Ceve Linde’s view: he was of the opinion that “machine man” was not suitable for football as the …”

Victoria Felkar The Iron Bar: The Modern History of Prison Physical Culture and the Ban on Correctional Weightlifting S. 19-38

„… watchful eye of superintendent Zebulon Reed Brockway, Elmira was designed for male offenders ranging in age …” „… 19 THE IRON BAR: THE MODERN HISTORY OF PRISON PHYSICAL CULTURE AND THE BAN ON CORRECTIONAL …” „… WEIGHTLIFTING BY VICTORIA FELKAR From representations of prison physical culture in movies and television …”

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STADION Volume 37 (2011) Issue 2 ISSN Online: 2942-3430

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Gertrud Pfister Sporting Memories and Physical Activities in Later Life – A Case Study in Denmark S. 175-194

„… 28,000 participants, 41% of them women. The youngest athletes were 30, the oldest 100 years of age.1 …” „… in order to enhance quality of life as people age."2 Active ageing also refers to the ability to be …” „… 53% of men) reported that they regularly take part in physical activities.9 In the 60-69 age cohort …”

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