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Gael Force provides a wealth of interesting facts and engaging anecdotes as well as profiles and photographs of the coaches, captains, and players. Merv Daub takes the reader through a century of Queen's football, from the first "Dominion" championship in 1893 with Curtis and his boys, through three consecutive Grey Cup wins in the 1920s, the 1934-35 victory of the "Fearless Fourteen," the 1955 season when Gus Braccia, Ronnie Stewart, Gary Schreider, Lou Bruce, Al Kocman, "Jocko" Thompson, and the rest of that "band of merry men" brought Queen's back into the limelight, the golden years of the 1960s, to the 1978 and 1992 Vanier Cup championship seasons. Gael Force is a tribute to the long-standing football legacy at Queen's and an important historical and sociological study of college sport in Canada.
Football --- American football --- Foot-ball --- Ball games --- Golden Gaels (Football team) --- Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.) --- Gaels (Football team) --- History. --- E-books
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"Delving into the history of gambling and corruption in intercollegiate sports, Cheating the Spread recounts all of the major gambling scandals in college football and basketball. Digging through court records, newspapers, government documents, and university archives and conducting private interviews, Albert J. Figone finds that game rigging has been pervasive and nationwide throughout most of the sports' history. The insidious practice has spread to implicate not only bookies and unscrupulous gamblers but also college administrators, athletic organizers, coaches, fellow students, and the athletes themselves. Naming the players, coaches, gamblers, and go-betweens involved, Figone discusses numerous college basketball and football games reported to have been fixed and describes the various methods used to gain unfair advantage, inside information, or undue profit. His survey of college football includes early years of gambling on games between established schools such as Yale, Princeton, and Harvard; Notre Dame's All-American halfback and skilled gambler George Gipp; and the 1962 allegations of insider information between Alabama coach Paul "Bear" Bryant and former Georgia coach James Wallace "Wally" Butts; and many other recent incidents. Notable events in basketball include the 1951 scandal involving City College of New York and six other schools throughout the East Coast and the Midwest; the 1961 point-shaving incident that put a permanent end to the Dixie Classic tournament; the 1978 scheme in which underworld figures recruited and bribed several Boston College players to ensure a favorable point spread; the 1994-95 Northwestern scandal in which players bet against their own team; and other recent examples of compromised gameplay and gambling"--
College sports --- Basketball --- Football --- Sports betting --- Basket-ball --- Ball games --- American football --- Foot-ball --- Handicapping --- Sports handicapping --- Sports trading (Sports betting) --- Gambling --- Economic aspects --- Betting --- E-books --- Corrupt practices --- History
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Football --- American football --- Foot-ball --- Ball games --- Economic aspects --- National Football League. --- N.F.L. --- National Pro Football League --- NFL --- American Football League --- American Football League (1926-1927) --- E-books --- NFL Films --- NFL Network
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This book follows the global trail of one of the world's most unremarkable and ubiquitous objects
Plastic footwear industry --- Thongs (Sandals) --- Globalization --- Chaussures en plastique --- Tongs (Chaussures) --- Mondialisation --- Industrie --- Boots. --- Footwear. --- Globalization. --- Shoes. --- Business & Economics --- Law, Politics & Government --- International Relations --- Industries --- Boots and shoes --- Foot wear --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- Plastic footwear industry. --- Flip-flops (Sandals) --- Go-aheads (Sandals) --- Zori --- Footwear industry --- Sandals --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- E-books
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Trails and routes have been indispensable to travel and tourism over the centuries, helping to form the basis of mobility patterns of the past and the present. This book is the first to comprehensively examine these tourism trails from a tourism and recreation perspective. This cutting-edge volume is global in scope and discusses a wide range of natural, cultural and developed linear resources for tourism and recreation. The book is suitable for both researchers and students who are interested in cultural heritage-based tourism, recreation and leisure studies, landscape and change, human mobility, geography, environmental management, and broader interests in destination planning, development and management.
Culture and tourism. --- Tourism --- Trails. --- Environmental aspects. --- Management. --- Backcountry routes --- Backcountry tracks --- Bridle paths --- Bush tracks --- Bush walks --- Foot paths --- Foot trails --- Footpaths --- General purpose trails --- Hiking routes --- Hiking trails --- Horse trails --- Multi-use trails --- Multiple-use trails --- Paths (Trails) --- Recreation trails --- Recreational trails --- Routes, Backcountry --- Routes, Hiking --- Tracks (Trails) --- Tramping tracks --- Walking tracks --- Walks (Trails) --- Walkways (Trails) --- Holiday industry --- Operators, Tour (Industry) --- Tour operators (Industry) --- Tourism industry --- Tourism operators (Industry) --- Tourist industry --- Tourist trade --- Tourist traffic --- Travel industry --- Visitor industry --- Ethnotourism --- Tourism and culture --- Economic aspects --- Hiking --- Mountaineering --- Roads --- Walking --- Service industries --- National tourism organizations --- Travel --- Culture and tourism --- Trails --- Environmental aspects --- Management --- E-books --- cultural routes. --- heritage trails. --- mobility patterns. --- nature trails. --- tourism and recreation . --- tourism and recreation trails. --- tourism development. --- tourism management. --- tourism mobilities. --- tourism routes. --- wilderness management.
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