The Game On New Year S Day

Author : Ted Brack
Publisher : Black & White Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781845024826

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The Game on New Year's Day by Ted Brack Pdf

Hibs and Hearts first locked horns on Christmas Day 1875. Hearts won 1-0 and even the most ardent Hibs fan would have to admit that the Tynecastle team has had the better of things in contests for local bragging rights over the 135 years which have followed. However, Hibs have had their moments too and the 6-2 derby win at Easter Road inspired by Franck Sauzee and Russell Latapy in October 2000 is a recent example of green and white triumph. No Hibs win over their local rivals, though, has come close to the epic 7-0 victory which was recorded by the great Turnbull's Tornadoes team on the first day of 1973. On the day that the United Kingdom entered the European Economic Community, Hibs carved out their own slice of history by vanquishing Hearts by seven clear goals on their own turf at Tynecastle. As the 40th anniversary of this iconic encounter approaches, Ted Brack describes the great match and the events which preceded it and tells the story of what has happened to the players who took part in it in the decades which have followed.Ted's book is written from his own experience and draws heavily on the first-hand memories and reminiscences of other supporters and the outstanding players who wore the green and white of Hibernian on that seminal day. Ted has spoken at length to players like ice cool goalkeeper Jim Herriot, world class full back John Brownlie, rock solid centre half Jim Black, classy and composed sweeper John Blackley, midfield maestros Alex Edwards and Alex Cropley, goal scorer supreme Jimmy O'Rourke and the peerless captain Pat Stanton. The players' honesty and insight make this book the definitive account of a match which still boasts the record competitive winning margin between Edinburgh's Big Two - Hearts supporters please note. "The Game on New Year's Day" is a must read for Hibees and should bring some cheer after their recent Cup disappointments.

Author : William D. Crump
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786495450

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Encyclopedia of New Year's Holidays Worldwide by William D. Crump Pdf

Among the world's myriad cultures and their associated calendars, the idea of a "New Year" is relative and hardly specifies a universal celebration or even a universal point in time. Ways of celebrating the New Year range from the observances of religious rituals and superstitions to social gatherings featuring particular foods, music, dancing, noisemaking, fireworks and drinking. This first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to the New Year includes 320 entries that give a global perspective on the New Year, beyond its traditional Western associations with Christmas. National or regional entries detail the principal traditions and customs of 130 countries, while 27 entries discuss major calendar systems in current use or of significant historical interest. The remaining entries cover a wide variety of subjects including literary works, movies, and television specials; the customs of specific ethnic groups; universal customs such as toasting and drinking; football bowl games and parades; and the New Year celebrations at the White House and the Vatican.

Author : Valerie Petrillo
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-28
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781613740378

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A Kid's Guide to Asian American History by Valerie Petrillo Pdf

Hands-on activities, games, and crafts introduce children to the diversity of Asian American cultures and teach them about the people, experiences, and events that have shaped Asian American history. This book is broken down into sections covering American descendents from various Asian countries, including China, Japan, Korea, Philippines, India, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Topics include the history of immigration from Asian countries, important events in U.S. history, sidebars on famous Asian Americans, language lessons, and activities that highlight arts, games, food, clothing, unique celebrations, and folklore. Kids can paint a calligraphy banner, practice Tai Chi, fold an origami dog or cat, build a Japanese rock garden, construct a Korean kite, cook bibingka, and create a chalk rangoli. A time line, glossary, and recommendations for Web sites, books, movies, and museums round out this multicultural guide.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : In the Hands of a Child
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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New Year's Celebrations by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Japan
ISBN : PURD:32754069377756

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Japan Report by Anonim Pdf

Author : Keith Dunnavant
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781466821347

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The Fifty-Year Seduction by Keith Dunnavant Pdf

In The Fifty-Year Seduction, Keith Dunnavant shows how television helped shape the modern sport--on and off the field. For more than a half century, television has played a primary role in securing college football's place as one of America's most popular spectator sports. But it has also been the common denominator in the sport's rise as a big business. Television, which multiplied the number of people who cared about the game, simultaneously increased the stakes. The colleges, who once feared television's ability to create free tickets, gradually became addicted to its charms. Through the years, the medium manufactured money, greed, dependence, and envy; altered the recruiting process, eventually forcing the colleges to compete with the irresistible force of National Football League riches; aided the National Collegiate Athletic Association's explosion from impotent union to massive bureaucracy; manipulated the rise and fall of the College Football Association; fomented the realignment of conferences; and seized control of the post-season bowl games, including the formation of the lucrative and controversial Bowl Championship Series. In painstaking detail, the author chronicles five decades of tension and conflict, from the 1951 television dispute that empowered the modern NCAA to the inevitable backlash, culminating with the landmark Supreme Court decision that set the stage for the conference-swapping machinations of the 1990s and beyond.

Author : James Buckley, Jr.
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780545331500

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Scholastic Year in Sports 2012 by James Buckley, Jr. Pdf

"Gives you an in-depth look at all of the hottest stars and most memorable moments from the past sports season"--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Bob Kuska
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0813924251

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Hot Potato by Bob Kuska Pdf

When Edwin Henderson introduced the game to Washington, D.C., in 1907, he envisioned basketball as a way for more outstanding black student athletes to excel at northern white colleges and debunk negative stereotypes of the race. Almost simultaneously, black basketball was catching on quickly in New York. Kuska establishes that these two cities served as the birthplace of the black game.

Author : Jack Kiper
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : College sports
ISBN : 9780595318018

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The Sixty Year Hurricane by Jack Kiper Pdf

Author : Simon J. Bronner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429841309

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Americanness by Simon J. Bronner Pdf

Americanness: Inquiries into the Thought and Culture of the United States analyzes several core themes that connect Americans because of, and despite, their pronounced diversity. The book investigates shared ideas and ideals, such as individualism, mobility, materialism, and future-orientation, that drive an overarching American worldview. Simon J. Bronner begins with ideas of space and time as they formed and changed through the history of the United States, before moving to the emergence of modern American culture. He examines reasons America is characterized as having a "victory culture" that extends to the American legal, military, and business complexes. This victory culture is further analyzed by looking at the country’s relationship with the game of football—a sport that thrives in America but has not caught on in other countries. Finally, the volume probes American consumerism driven by a desire for individual prosperity in a supposedly egalitarian society. Using interdisciplinary approaches drawn from psychology, sociology, ethnology, and history, Bronner seeks explanations for people invoking, and evoking, ideas that they perceive as American. This book would be an invaluable addition to courses on American history, sociology, cultural studies, and American studies.

Author : Kristi Dosh
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781118386682

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Saturday Millionaires by Kristi Dosh Pdf

Last year Football Bowl Subdivision college football programs produced over $1 billion in net revenue. Record-breaking television contracts were announced. Despite the enormous revenue, college football is in upheaval. Schools are accused of throwing their academic mission aside to fund their football teams. The media and fans are beating the drum for athletes to be paid. And the conferences are being radically revised as schools search for TV money. Saturday Millionaires shows that schools are right to fund their football teams first; that athletes will never be paid like employees; how the media skews the financial facts; and why the TV deals are so important. It follows the money to the heart of college football and shows the real game being played, covering such areas as: Myth #1: All Athletic Departments Are Created Equal Myth #2: Supporting Football Means Degrading Academics Myth #3: College Football Players Could Be Paid Like Employees Myth #4: Football Coaches Are Overpaid Myth #5: A Playoff Will Bring Equality to College Football Myth #6: Only a Handful of Athletic Departments Are Self-Sustaining The business of college football is unlike any other business. Saturday Millionaires takes you behind the scenes and teaches you how to understand the industry from the inside out, touching on such subjects as conference realignment, pay-for-play, conference television networks and where all those millions go at the end of the day.

Author : Neil Phillips
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781425112615

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Doctor to the World Champions by Neil Phillips Pdf

This book tells the story of a career spent in Sport and Medicine, with the author eventually included in England's World Cup winning squad of 1966. Enjoy the incredible story.

Author : Roddy Hall
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781329713338

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Birth of the Hokie Nation: Virginia Tech's Path to the 1999 National Championship Game by Roddy Hall Pdf

Virginia Tech hired Frank Beamer in December 1986 to take over a football program rocked with scandal and on NCAA probation. After the 1992 season, many assumed the university administration would fire him when the Hokies finished the year with a 2-8-1 record. The ad-ministration was patient. Starting in 1993, the Virginia Tech football team set upon a path that would lead to the National Championship game of 1999 played on January 4, 2000, at the Sugar Bowl. This is the story of the games played between 1992 and that January night when, for a few minutes, Virginia Tech reached the pinnacle of the college football world. While Frank Beamer never won a national championship as coach, this book is about the teams that put Beamer and the Hokies in the stratosphere where dreams became goals, and the quest for those goals changed a university.

Author : Victoria R. Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9798216163992

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Weird Sports and Wacky Games around the World by Victoria R. Williams Pdf

With hundreds of books dedicated to conventional sports and activities, this encyclopedia on the weirdest and wackiest games offers a fresh and entertaining read for any audience. Weird Sports and Wacky Games around the World: From Buzkashi to Zorbing focuses on what many would consider abnormal activities from across the globe. Spanning subjects that include individual games, team sports, games for men and women, and contests involving animal competitors, there is something for every reader. Whether researching a particular country or region's traditions or wanting an interesting read for pleasure, this book offers an array of uses and benefits. Though the book focuses on games and sporting activities, the examination of these topics gives readers insight into unfamiliar places and peoples through their recreation—an essential part of the human experience that occurs in all cultures. Such activities are not only embedded in everyday life but also indelibly interconnected with social customs, war, politics, commerce, education, and national identity, making the whimsical topic of the book an appealing gateway to insightful, highly relevant information.

Author : James Buckley Jr.
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780545695183

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Scholastic Year in Sports 2015 by James Buckley Jr. Pdf

The must-have book for sports fans of all ages! For sport fans everywhere, the 2015 edition of Year in Sports will feature full-color action photographs throughout, completely updated facts and stats,bright, colorful interior design, and new Top 10 and Wacky and Weird Moments lists from the past year. With info about all of the top athletes, championships, and legends from the major and secondary sports.