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Gael force : a century of football at Queen's
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ISBN: 1282854240 9786612854248 0773566333 9780773566330 0773515097 9780773515093 0773515194 9780773515192 9781282854246 6612854243 Year: 1996 Publisher: Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press,

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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.


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Cheating the spread : gamblers, point shavers, and game fixers in college football and basketball
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ISBN: 1283868318 025209445X 9780252094453 9781283868310 9780252037283 9780252078750 0252037286 0252078756 Year: 2012 Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press,

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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"--


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Run to Glory and Profits
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ISBN: 9781461937227 1461937221 9780803246966 080324696X 9780803248533 1496209702 9781496209702 0803248539 9781299775046 1299775047 Year: 2013 Publisher: Lincoln University of Nebraska Press

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Flip-flop : a journey through globalisation's backroads
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ISBN: 9780745334127 0745334121 9780745334110 0745334113 1783711507 9781783711505 9781783711512 1783711515 9781783711529 1783711523 Year: 2014 Publisher: London : Pluto Press,

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This book follows the global trail of one of the world's most unremarkable and ubiquitous objects


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Tourism and trails : cultural, ecological and management issues
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ISBN: 1845414780 1845414799 9781322333236 1322333238 9781845414795 1845414802 1845414772 9781845414801 9781845414788 9781845414771 Year: 2015 Publisher: Bristol, England : Channel View Publications,

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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.

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