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Larsson, Joakim, and Henrik Sjökvist. "American Football : A Markovian Approach." Thesis, KTH, Matematisk statistik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-188987.

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This bachelor's thesis in applied mathematics & industrial economics is an attempt to model drives in American football using Markov chains. The transition matrix is obtained through logit regression analysis on historical data from the NFL. Different outcomes of drives are modelled as separate absorbing states in the Markov chain. Absorption probabilities are calculated representing the probabilities of each outcome. Results are tested against a Markov chain with the transition matrix based on frequency analysis. Three scoring rules unanimously declare the regression based model to be sup

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Gleason, Benjamin H., James B. Kramer, and Michael H. Stone. "Agility Training for American Football." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4630.

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Agility and change of direction training is an under-studied topic in American football. A considerable amount of research has been performed with athletes competing in other contact sports. As such, evaluating methods that have shown to improve agility in other sports may lead to new methods to enhance football performance. A framework of the methods used by a highly successful NCAA Division-1 football championship subdivision team is included as a model that may show promise in enhancing football performance.

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Lewis, Marc Theron. "Athlete Monitoring in American Collegiate Football." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/102738.

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American football is one of the most popular sports in the United States. However, in comparison to other mainstream sports such as soccer and rugby, there is limited literature using scientific principles and theory to examine the most appropriate ways to monitor the sport. This serves as a barrier to American football practitioners in their development and implementation of evidence-based sport preparation programs. Therefore, the primary aim of this line of research (i.e., dissertation) is to illustrate the efficacy of commonly used athlete monitoring tools within the sport of American coll

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Hare, Daniel Edmundson. "Aerodynamic analysis of a tumbling American football." Thesis, Mississippi State University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1570129.

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<p> In this study, the aerodynamic effects on an American football are characterized, especially in a tumbling, or end-over-end, motion as seen in a typical kickoff or field goal attempt. The objective of this study is to establish aerodynamic coefficients for the dynamic motion of a tumbling American football. A subsonic wind tunnel was used to recreate a range of air velocities that, when coupled with rotation rates and differing laces orientations, would provide a test bed for aerodynamic drag, side, and lift coefficient analysis. Test results quantify effect of back-spin and top-spin on li

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McCluskey, John M. "Music as Narrative in American College Football." UKnowledge, 2016. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/music_etds/57.

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American college football features an enormous amount of music woven into the fabric of the event, with selections accompanying approximately two-thirds of a game’s plays. Musical selections are controlled by a number of forces, including audio and video technicians, university marketing departments, financial sponsors, and wind bands. These blend together in a complex design that offers audible and visual stimulation to the audience during the game’s pauses. The music chosen for performance in these moments frequently communicates meaning beyond entertainment value. Selections reinforce the g

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Stone, Michael H., Brian D. Johnston, and R. J. Elbin. "American Football: Lessons Learned from Sport Science and Sports Medicine: Strength and Conditioning for American Football: A Brief Overview." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2010. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4534.

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Wismer, Lacey Elaine. "British American football : national identity, cultural specificity and globalization." Thesis, Brunel University, 2011. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/6026.

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This thesis explores the hybridity and distinctiveness of British American football. Sports have socio-historical links to specific nation-states, thus encoding them with culturally specific values. Despite a movement towards cultural convergence, especially of popular culture, aspects of sport have remained resistant to dominant globalization trends. My thesis reveals that the globalization of American football to Britain has been a process which makes concessions to the local, while still retaining many of its global characteristics. Through an ethnographic study of one team, I spent an enti

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Schussler, Eric. "Assessment, Feedback and Head Accelerations in Youth American Football." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1468412296.

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Blackburn, Botswana Toney Thompson Carolyn. "Racial stacking in the National Football League reality or relic of the past? /." Diss., UMK access, 2007.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--School of Education and Dept. of Sociology. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2007.<br>"A dissertation in education and social science." Advisor: Carolyn Thompson. Typescript. Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed July 30, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 112-121). Online version of the print edition.

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Dzikus, Lars. "From violence to party a history of the presentation of American football in England and Germany /." Connect to resource, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1123873905.

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Wolf, Dominik [Verfasser]. "Reading the Game : Anglo-American Perspectives on Football Fandom in the Age of Premier League Football [[Elektronische Ressource]] / Dominik Wolf." Bonn : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1060045338/34.

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Westerberg, Jacob. "A deep learning approach for action classification in American football video sequences." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Avdelningen för systemteknik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-333663.

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The artificial intelligence is a constant topic of conversation with a field of research that is pushed forward by some of the world's largest companies and universities. Deep learning is a branch of machine learning within artificial intelligence based on learning representation of data such as images and texts by processing the data through deep neural networks. Sports are competitive businesses that over the years have become more data driven. Statistics play a big role in the development of the practitioners and the tactics in order to win. Sport organizations have big statistic teams sinc

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Huske, Jared Thomas 1987. "An Analysis of the Reasons Behind the Lack of Black Head Football Coaches at the NCAA Division I-A Level and Recommendations on Improvements to Solve this Problem." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/9913.

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ix, 70 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.<br>The lack of minority head coaches at the Division I-A level is not a new trend, nor one that is improving. In a sport where less than 10% of head coaches are minorities, a survey was randomly sent out to several head and assistant coaches at the collegiate level. The survey showed most coaches believe there are discrepancies in the hiring process that impair minorities, there tends to be unfair favoritism towards nonminority coaches after a termina

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Harvey, Devin T. "From junior college to university contributing factors to completion of a bachelors degree for African American scholarship football players /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1806884931&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Hughes, Raymond Finley. "Desegregating the holy day : football, blacks and the Southeastern Conference /." The Ohio State University, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487688507503898.

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Morris, Christopher W. "The Effect of Fluid Periodization on Athletic Performance Outcomes in American Football Players." UKnowledge, 2015. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/khp_etds/24.

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For decades strength and conditioning professionals have been seeking optimal training volumes and intensities to yield maximum performance outcomes without the onset of injury. Unfortunately, current studies apply experimental training techniques without considering the individuals’ response to the imposed training load. Due to the vast genetic variability and extraneous environmental factors that affect one’s ability to recover, results from such studies are controversial and inconclusive. Athlete monitoring systems offer an objective assessment that is purported to evaluate an individual’s

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McGough, Erin Patrick. "Analyzing the Relationship Between Player Personnel and Optimal Mixed Strategies in American Football." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1248121168.

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White, Kristopher C. "Hegemony in American Capitalism: The Exploitation of Race and Socioeconomic Status in Football." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1531933118599888.

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Ward, P. A. "An evaluation of the physical demands of American football training in the NFL." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2018. http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/9042/.

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American football is one of the most popular sports in the United States. However, unlike other football codes, little is known about its physical demands. Aside from a limited amount of research conducted on college players during training and matches, no research exists on players at the elite level, in the National Football League (NFL). Therefore, the primary aim of this thesis was to evaluate the physical demands of training in the NFL. This aim was achieved by establishing a systematic approach to training evaluation using three main phases of study: (1) Evaluation of monitoring strategi

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Gaetano, David. "Native America's Pastime: How Football at an Indian Boarding School Empowered Native American Men and Revitalized their Culture, 1880-1920." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1558090258915317.

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Fisher, Jocelyn Alexis. "The experience of media and race in the National Football League an existential phenomological study /." Click here to access dissertation, 2008. http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/archive/spring2008/jocelyn_a_fisher/fisher_jocelyn_a_200801_ms.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Georgia Southern University, 2008.<br>"A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Science." Under the direction of Daniel R. Czech. ETD. Electronic version approved: May 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 88-91) and appendices.

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Deren, Tomasz. "An Analysis of Thermoregulatory Sweating and Heat Balance in American Football Linemen and Backs." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20644.

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This thesis examined why NCAA Division 1 American football “linemen” experience greater heat strain than “backs” during summer training camps. In study #1, exercise at a heat production of 350 W/m2 in a hot environment (Tdb:32.4±1.0ºC; Twb:26.3±0.6ºC) resulted in greater local sweating on the upper body (head, arm, shoulder and chest; all <0.05) and a greater core temperature (P=0.033) in linemen despite a ~25% lower heat production per unit mass (L:6.0±0.5 W/kg; B:8.2±0.8 W/kg). In study #2, greater convective and evaporative heat transfer coefficients (P<0.05) were found in backs during live

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Wu, Lyndia C., Calvin Kuo, Jesus Loza, et al. "Detection of American Football Head Impacts Using Biomechanical Features and Support Vector Machine Classification." NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/627166.

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Accumulation of head impacts may contribute to acute and long-term brain trauma. Wearable sensors can measure impact exposure, yet current sensors do not have validated impact detection methods for accurate exposure monitoring. Here we demonstrate a head impact detection method that can be implemented on a wearable sensor for detecting field football head impacts. Our method incorporates a support vector machine classifier that uses biomechanical features from the time domain and frequency domain, as well as model predictions of head-neck motions. The classifier was trained and validated using

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Ross, Charles Kenyatta. "Outside the lines : the African American struggle to participate in professional football, 1904-1962 /." The Ohio State University, 1996. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487940308432552.

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Alba, Micah Adam. "Comparison of two training programs on acceleration out of the break in American football /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2009. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2759.pdf.

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Alba, Micah Adam. "Comparison of Two Training Programs on Acceleration Out of the Break in American Football." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2008. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1655.

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Athletes of American football need the ability to stop, start, and reach top speed in an efficient manner. Football players on the defensive side of the ball require the skill of stopping a backward run and accelerating to a forward run. This action is termed the break. Football players receive year-round training in an effort to improve performance. Yet, many times, these athletes may not focus specifically on the muscular systems that are unique to the position they play. The law of specificity states that the more specific the training is for the action required, the more beneficial the out

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Iacovelli, Jaclyn Nicole. "Effect of field condition and shoe type on lower extremity injuries in American football." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2011. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1148.

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With American football becoming increasingly popular in the United States, more efforts have been made on technology and advancements to reduce the number of injuries sustained by athletes. However, few studies have been conducted to evaluate how the field type, field condition, and shoe type interact with each other to induce injuries. To fill in the gap in the literature, this thesis used epidemiological methods to investigate the effect of field condition and shoe type on lower extremity injuries, specifically knee and ankle injuries, using real player data from the 2008, 2009, and 2010 foo

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Gleason, Benjamin H., Matthew L. Sams, John T. Salley, A. Andrew Pustina, and Michael H. Stone. "Global Positioning System Analysis of a High School Football Scrimmage." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4645.

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The purpose of this study was to examine the physical demands of a high school American football scrimmage. Male high school football players (N = 25) participated in a spring scrimmage. Global positioning system data and game film were recorded throughout the entirety of the scrimmage to determine the total distance covered, the distance covered in different velocity bands, the number of accelerations and decelerations performed, and the work-to-rest ratio of the scrimmage. The athletes were divided into 2 groups: linemen (L) (N = 7) vs. nonlinemen (NL) (N = 8) for statistical analysis, and i

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Salinas, Silvia M. "The Academic and Athletic Experiences of African-american Males in a Division I (Fbs) Football Program." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2013. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc407844/.

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This study investigated the academic and athletic experiences of African-American males in a Division I football bowl subdivision football program. Critical race theory, identity development model, and social learning model were the theoretical frameworks used as the critical lenses in a qualitative design to examine the participants. The participants’ responses were analyzed and interpreted using thematic analysis. A qualitative research design, which included individual interviews with 10 second year African-American male football players, was used to address this research problem. The goal

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Fuentes, Johnathan. "Relationship Between Muscular Strength Testing to Dynamic Muscular Performance in Division One American Football Players." Scholar Commons, 2010. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1635.

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The purpose of this study is to develop a prediction equation for (performance variables) vertical jump, broad jump, 40-yard sprint time, and pro-agility shuttle time using body mass and 1-RM values of strength for bench press and back squat. Participants (n = 76) used in the study were members of the University of South Florida D-1 football team in fall of 2009. Squat/BM demonstrated the strongest relationship in both correlation and multiple regression data for every performance variable. Squat 1-RM and Squat/BP indicated a decreased relationship and negative impact on performance. Results i

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Karton, Clara. "Profiling Brain Trauma in Professional American-style Football and the Implications to Developing Neurological Injury." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/39981.

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American-style football participation is associated with high risks to a spectrum of sports-related brain injury involving acute reactions and chronic manifestations. Traditional methods of identifying injury have proven ineffective at protecting athletes and mitigating risk as they rely on the presence and recognition of inconsistent symptom expression. This is, in part, due to the lack of an objective measure of quantifying exposure. Brain trauma profiling was defined to capture a spectrum of exposure by incorporating the primary characteristics that associate with risk of neurological inj

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Olszak, Candace A. "The Impacts of Weather on a Mid-American Conference University Football Team and Players' Perceptions Regarding Weather." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1334330057.

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Phillips, Benjamin Paul. "A Community in a Cow Pasture: Football at Penn State." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1237492984.

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Seifried, Chad Stephen. "An analysis of the American outdoor sport facility developing an ideal-type on the evolution of professional baseball and football structures /." Connect to this title online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1116446330.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005.<br>Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xiv, 416 p.; also includes graphics Includes bibliographical references (p. 390-416). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center

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Rugg, Adam Ernest. "Ruptures in the field : The NFL as global corporate media organization and American cultural industry." Diss., University of Iowa, 2016. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/3178.

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The National Football League (NFL) stands as one of the most visible and dominant organizations within American popular culture. However, despite being at the pinnacle of its popularity and the precipice of its seemingly last obstacle of international expansion, the last decade has seen the league confronting a series of crises that have destabilized and challenged the previously coherent meanings of the sport put out by the league and broadly recirculated within popular discourses. Propelled by these crises, the previously accepted framing of the league as “America's game” has come under incr

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Korem, Erik D. "THE EFFECT OF SLEEP QUANTITY AND QUALITY ON DIRECT CURRENT POTENTIAL IN COLLEGIATE AMERICAN FOOTBALL PLAYERS." UKnowledge, 2018. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/khp_etds/52.

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Direct current (DC) potential is an objective measure of the functional state of the human organism. It is a sensitive and accurate indicator of short- and long-term adaptations to stress, adaptive capacities, and it is an important marker of athlete readiness. Sleep is posited to be the most efficacious strategy for improving recovery to enhance sport performance, and adequate sleep is considered vital to normal psycho-physiological function. Thus, optimal sleep may enhance the functional state, in turn enhancing an athlete’s adaptability to training stress. However, little is known about the

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Lindon, Tyler. "EXAMINATION OF VOLUME AND INTENSITIES OF WEEKDAY PRACTICES AND COMPETITIVE GAMES IN COLLEGIATE FOOTBALL PLAYERS." UKnowledge, 2017. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/khp_etds/46.

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The aims of the present study were to characterize the typical volume (total distance) and intensities (high-speed distance > 75% of maximum speed for weekday practices, Monday through Friday and competitive games on Saturday; compare the daily practice volume and intensities to competitive games to determine if the targeted volume and intensities are achieved as part of the periodized strategies using GPS software; and examine the relationship among total distance, high-speed distance in the prediction of player-load . Thirty NCAA Division I Football players (187.9 ± 5.5 cm; 107.4 ± 24.6 kg)

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Ryan, Mackenzie Anne. "An Analysis of National Football League Fandom and Its Promotion of Conservative Cultural Ideals About Race, Religion, and Gender." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1343359916.

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Lewis, Keona. "African American Athletes and the Negotiation of Public Spaces: An Examination of Athletic Capital and African American Perceptions of Success." Scholar Commons, 2010. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3431.

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This dissertation explores the culture of sport among African American male football players as well as African American perspectives on sport and success. A case study of six African American, Division 1 FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision) collegiate student athletes was conducted along with seventeen supplemental interviews with community members, parents, coaches and former athletes and fans. The participants answered questions that explored education, success, identity construction, ethnicity and sport. Archival data was also reviewed framing the discussion on football in Florida, links betwee

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Fenex, Bart Lindy. "The "Iron cage" of division I athletics and football as status imperatives constraint and change among American universities /." Diss., [Riverside, Calif.] : University of California, Riverside, 2010. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=2019830591&SrchMode=2&sid=1&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1274721240&clientId=48051.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2010.<br>Includes abstract. Title from first page of PDF file (viewed May 24, 2010). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Includes bibliographical references. Also issued in print.

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Zanetti, Katrina. "The Association between Peak Resultant Linear Acceleration and Brain Tissue Deformation in American Football-related Helmeted Head Impacts." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31756.

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The objective of this study was to determine the degree of association of peak resultant linear acceleration with maximum principal strain, von Mises stress, and strain rate in the cerebrum. Three prevalent head impact mechanisms in the sport of football were represented by impacting an accelerometer-outfitted Hybrid III headform. Head to head impacts were characterized using a linear impactor, falls to the ground using a monorail drop, and elbow or forearm strikes to the head by a pendulum system. Representative inbound impact velocities were selected according to epidemiological research. Im

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Crawford, Denis M. "It Wasn't a Revolution, but it was Televised: The Crafting of the Sports Broadcasting Act." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1491393327773836.

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Knight, Dawn K. "A biography of George Taliaferro and his impact on the integration of professional football." Virtual Press, 2003. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1272767.

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George Taliaferro was a trailblazer. He was the first black quarterback in professional football, the first black quarterback in the National Football League (NFL), and the first black man to be drafted by an NFL team.Taliaferro's story of perseverance revealed the slow and difficult process of integration in high school, at Indiana University, and in his professional football career. The obstacles he faced and the lessons he learned were representative of issues related to the integration of the NFL.A combination of personal narrative and historical investigation was used in this creative pro

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Binns, Terrill Rachel Anne. "Inside NFL Marriages: A seven year ethnographic study of love and marriage in professional football." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3978.

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When women marry NFL players and subsequently become NFL wives, they are thrust out of the lives they have known and into a form of secondary socialization among other NFL wives. In this dissertation, I use ethnography and narrative inquiry, the first- person narratives of four NFL wives, interactive interviews with dozens of NFL wives, friendship as method, and my personal autoethnographic experiences to describe the social interactions between NFL wives, the themes of their marriages, and the trajectories of their identity formation and transformation of NFL wives during their time in the le

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Bell, Lydia Foster. "Balancing Act: Negotiations of the Athletic and Academic Role Amongst Division I-Football Bowl Subdivision Student-Athletes." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194286.

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Informed by the words and experiences of 41 Division I-Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) student-athletes, this qualitative study reveals the complexities of the student-athlete academic experience shaped by the expectations of their athletic role, the campus climate, and the NCAA Academic Reform Package. Using role-identity as a theoretical framework, it examines how, over time, these student-athletes have shaped their athletic and academic role-identities, and the roles played in such shaping by those in their academic and athletic role-sets. The study critically examines the academic decision

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Ayiku, Tiffany Quiana. "The relationships among college self-efficacy, academic self-efficacy, and athletic self efficacy for African American male football players." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/2701.

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Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2005.<br>Thesis research directed by: Counseling and Personnel Services. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.

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Himel, Matthew T. "Big Game Cats and Defining Football’s Value: College Football’s Popularity, Controversies, and Expansion." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2521.

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This thesis directly approaches intercollegiate football from a cultural perspective. The football’s popularity exploded during the Twentieth-Century. Television, merchandizing, and a national sporting culture are associated with this development. However, controversies often muddied the waters of that popularity. Football’s brutality, athletic scholarships, and controversies within athletics departments overshadowed the immense popularity of intercollegiate football. During the Twenty-First Century, several universities started new football programs. Two of which being Georgia State Universit

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Pharion, Jeffrey L. "Transformational Leadership in Coaching." Ashland University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ashland1413120189.

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Velasquez, Scott E. "Images of gender arrangements of three American social organizations: a content analysis of top ranked Google images of individuals preforming organizational roles." Diss., Kansas State University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/32872.

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Doctor of Philosophy<br>Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work<br>Don L. Kurtz<br>This study explores existing beliefs and often unspoken social structural arrangements related to male privileges by examining three different, but rather important, American social organizations—the NFL, U.S. military and higher education institutions. With queries from the Google image database, I analyzed images for themes from search terms of organizations thereby tapping into the consciences of society. Since a high volume of images are produced by Google Image search, a maximum of 25 results

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Lewis, Scott Charles. "Reframing The National Football League: An Organizational Analysis Of The Construction Of A Modern Spectacle." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0001363.

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