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Tragedy and Laughter on the Road to Oblivion
Max Howell was an international rugby player for Australia (the Wallabies) who played 32 times for Australia and retired at 20 years of age. He was from a very poor home and concluded that he had to go to University if he wished to get ahead. This autobiography is the struggle of an impoverished lad in search of a pupose in life. He became the first Australian to get a doctorate degree in physical education/ sport science/ human movement studies.He was adjudged at Berkeley to be the most outstanding athlete in all the so-called minor sports, despite some having medals from the Olympics and others being national champions.Dr Howell was hired at the University of British Columbia, began the fi...
Wallaby Legends
Sports guru and commentator Peter Meares, together with renowned author and academic Max Howell, profile the top fifty legends of rugby union in compelling and vivid detail. In what will be a controversial list players from the first test of 1884 to the present day are included. Detailing the highs and lows of their careers, colour photographs and detailed statistics, this book is essential for rugby fans of all ages.
Game Plan
Patterns and layers of sport history emerge as almost-forgotten stories of Alberta’s marginalized populations surface.
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Rules, Exceptions, and Social Order
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1985.
The Chequered Past
In the forty-year period between 1951 and 1991, Canadian sports car competition underwent a massive change, transforming itself from an amateur recreational pastime to a commercialized profession and from an individual sport to a spectacle for mass consumption. The Chequered Past is the story of the struggle over power and purpose within the Canadian auto sport that led to this transformation. The first comprehensive history of sports car racing and rallying in Canada, The Chequered Past traces the efforts of the national governing body - the Canadian Auto Sport Clubs (CASC) - to bring its sports car competition up to a 'world class' level, and to manage the consequences of those efforts in ...
