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Item A comparison of four strength maintenance programs for football players(Texas Tech University, 1969-08) Gay, Robert AllenNot availableItem A Comparison of Four Strength Maintenance Programs for the In-Season Football Program(Texas Tech University, 1971-08) Bundy, William BlairNot Available.Item A Study of the Measurement of Potential Football Ability in High School Players(Texas Tech University, 1972-08) May, Larry DonNot Available.Item A study of the relationship of certain personality characteristics in producing high school quarterbacks(Texas Tech University, 1969-05) Vandergriff, JerryNot availableItem American football in Mexico: factors influencing success of teams within the National College Football Organization, Organizacion Nacional Estudiantil de Futbol Americano (ONEFA)(2009-05-15) Martinez Garcia, Gabriela DeyaniraThis study investigates the factors or determinants that influence success of teams within the Big 12 Conference of the National College Football Organization in Mexico. The findings of such a study were perceived to be useful to other football teams in Mexico, enabling them to implement the strategies and practices of the teams considered the most successful. The participants in this study included head coaches and players of teams within the Big 12 Conference in Mexico. Two questionnaires containing open-ended questions were addressed to coaches and players in telephone interviews. The data acquired was first transcribed in its original language [Spanish], and then translated to English. Content analysis was used in the analysis of the data. The results indicated that several factors- themes, emerged from the interviews, and they were organized into the input-throughput-output model of organizational effectiveness (Chelladurai, 2005). The participants considered these factors to be influential for the success of football teams within the Big 12 Conference. Human resources represented the most determinant factor in the input model. The throughput model showed the procedures or strategies implemented by the teams to guarantee the attainment of goals. Finally, in the output model, winning the championship represented the most important goal for coaches and players; however, only the head coaches mentioned other goals, such as having successful programs, having their players graduate, and so forth, as important in their football programs. The results identified the factors perceived to influence success of football teams within the Big 12 Conference in Mexico. These findings will be useful to coaches and players of other football teams in Mexico and enable them to implement the strategies and procedures perceived to lead teams to success.Item Between practice and the classroom : the making of masculinity and race in the mis-education of Black male student-athletes on a college campus(2012-05) Yearwood, Gabby M. H.; Gordon, Edmund Tayloe; Franklin, Maria; Richardson, Matt; Smith, Christen; Vargas, JoãoThis project argues that American college sports involving Black male athletes (primarily football and men’s basketball) at Gulf Coast State University (GCSU) actively construct and impact local knowledge about Black masculinity in relation to white, male, hetero-normative systems of authority. These sports, in turn, then impact policy, administrative decisions, and teaching approaches as they relate to young Black men on a college campus. In other words, Black male college athletes on a white college campus offer the opportunity for a reinforcement of systems of authority through the pattern of de-stabilizing their subjectivity (as nothing more than physical entities) in order to provide a revenue-generating resource for the university. I posit that the positioning of Black males in this space as athletes and as students is strategic and intentional, when one takes into account the ongoing dynamic of the hegemonic positioning of white, male, hetero-normative value systems as the unmarked standard of social norms. That these contested meanings become significant within the realm of sport situates sport itself as another, often underutilized, space for social inquiry. I further argue that this categorization is heightened in the context of a predominantly white institution. Through ethnographic fieldwork, I explored the sport (mainly football and men’s basketball) and academic community at GCSU with the goal of understanding how high-profile and high-revenue sports and their participants become central to the understanding and expression of normalized ideas about race, gender, and sexuality. I reason that the predominantly white demography of GCSU, added to the uneven ratio of Black to white males on the football and basketball teams, creates perceptions about race and masculinity that factor into people’s everyday understanding of the term “student-athlete”. The term “student-athlete” becomes racialized and gendered in ways that continually make reference to Black male athletes differently than other students and student-athletes at the university. I believe these effects on the term then impacts the structural mechanisms that affect the daily lives of these Black male athletes both on and off the field, both inside and outside the classroom.Item Comparison between college football players and non-participants on selected psychological characteristics(Texas Tech University, 1967-06) Littlefield, Donald HutsonNot availableItem Exceptions and exceptionalism : The United States Soccer Football Association in a global context, 1950–74(2015-08) Kioussis, George Nicholas; Hunt, Thomas M.; Bowers, Matthew T; Dimeo, Paul; Hoberman, John M; Todd, Janice SSince the 2001 release of Andrei Markovits and Steven Hellerman’s Offside, the dominant narrative about football in the United States has been one of exceptionalism – a term used to denote uniqueness, but also one wrapped up in notions of superiority. A finde-siècle desire for exclusively “native” sports, so the theory holds, prompted Americans to turn a collective cold shoulder to the kicking game in favor of their own national pastimes. In the years thereafter, the American footballing experience diverged still further, as evidenced in the cachet the women’s game achieved at the turn of the millennium and the sport’s transformation from working-class pastime to bourgeois pursuit. Lost in these points of disjuncture, however, are important junctures. This dissertation endeavors to bring these junctures – the exceptions to exceptionalism – to the fore by focusing on the understudied United States Soccer Football Association. Using a rich array of archival materials, it connects America’s “soccer men” to the broader international football system and argues for a moderation of the paradigm of exceptionalism. It begins by focusing on the overlap of people, focusing on the social and developmental links members of the USSFA established with their colleagues abroad. It then transitions to the overlap of ideas – first with regard to the intrusion of business interests into sport, then with regard to adapting football to fit the patterns of an increasingly competitive sport and leisure marketplace. In sum, this work teases out the complexities in a historiography that has typically been written with a view to difference.Item The games behind the game : the process of democratic deepening and identity formation in Turkey as seen through football clubs(2011-05) Blasing, John Konuk; Henry, Clement M., 1937-; Boone, CatherineThe history of football clubs in Turkey is entwined with the political and economic development of Turkey in the twentieth century. This thesis focuses on the history of soccer clubs and the close involvement of the sport with the formation of modern Turkish identity during the late Ottoman period, the early republican period, the multi-party period, and finally the Cold War era. As this study also argues, in addition to their role in identity formation, football clubs were the building blocks of associational life in Turkish democracy and thus represent a major force in the process of democratic deepening in the country. The thesis addresses both the complex political functions and uses of soccer clubs and their economic relationship to the development of Turkish business. Through the twentieth century, the politics behind soccer clubs evolved from an affirmation of national identity to a reassertion of local identity as a challenge to the centralized state system. Increased localization—as evidenced by the rising fortunes of soccer clubs and businesses from Central Anatolia, Turkey’s Muslim heartland—also indicates the increased Islamicization of Turkish society accompanying the advent of the AKP (Justice and Development Party). The changing character of Turkish society and the challenge to traditional secular elites by a rising class of Islamic businessmen from outside of the metropolitan areas—developing businesses concentrated mainly in Central Anatolia—are presented through an analysis of Parliamentary election results since 1962 along with the concurrent change in the geographical transformation of the landscape of Turkish soccer through this period. The study examines the complex, multifaceted interrelationships and lines of mutual determinations between the changing conceptions of Turkish identity, democratic deepening, Islamicization, and the economic development of modern Turkey. This thesis demonstrates how these forces that shape social, political, and economic life are played out on the soccer field.Item Personality factors STDCR and its relationship to football ability of high school football linebackers(Texas Tech University, 1970-12) Blessing, Patton GNot availableItem The price of admission: football players' sacrificial conceptions of career and health through metaphors of war, religion, and family(2014-05) Alekajbaf, Nicolette Lea; Ballard, Dawna I.With the recent discovery of traumatic brain injuries developing in retired professional football players, this study seeks to explore players’ perceptions of their careers in the sport, and how this may reflect notions of personal health over the long-term. Current and former football players, athletic staff, and other members of the football community were interviewed with the goal of learning about the full trajectory of a football career. Using grounded metaphorical analysis to examine the interview data, our study found the use of metaphor by participants to be integral in players’ descriptions of their careers. Participants likened aspects of their careers to enduring a war, having a religious experience, and being part of a family unit. Long-term, post-career health implications are discussed in relation to players’ conceiving of their experiences through these metaphors, along with limitations of the study and directions for future research.Item Sidelined : gender inequality in athletics(2010-05) Hollingsworth, Brian Paul, 1973-; DeCesare, Donna; Burd, GeneThe essence of American women’s struggle to play sports at a competitive level is that for decades the power structure of American professional and scholastic athletics simply didn’t think they should be allowed to play. The various institutions governing athletics of all levels sought first to prevent women from participating in sports at all and later to keep women athletes segregated and barred from playing on men’s teams or competing against them. They have justified this discrimination by citing various outmoded ideas of women’s mental and physical abilities, their perceived frailty, and the erroneous belief that keeping women athletes segregated from men provides a more suitable and more enjoyable athletic experience for both sexes. This report and the accompanying video, Outlaws Rising, examine the legacy of gender inequality in sports and its impact on the Austin Outlaws, a women’s tackle football team.Item The relationship between personality factors and football ability(Texas Tech University, 1969-08) Pruit, Sherman AThe purposes of this study were: (A) To determine the relationship between personality factors, STDCR, of a team of AAAA Texas high school football athletes and their rated football ability, and (B) To determine what personality factors, STDCR, are prevalent in each of seven categories of football athletes. The seven categories were: (A) offensive linemen, (B) defensive linemen, (C) offensive backs, (D) defensive backs, (E) offensive ends, (F) defensive ends, and (G) defensive linebackers. The Cowell and Ismail Football Rating Scale was used by the seven coaches of the seventy-four subjects to independently rate each subjects's football ability. A single football ability score was obtained for each subject by computing the mean of the seven ratings. Zero-order correlations using the Pearson-Product-Moment correlation technique were computed to determine the relationship between the C-score of each of the five personality factors, STDCR, and the mean football ability rating. Zero-order and multiple correlation coefficients v/ere computed for each of seven categories of positions to determine the relationship between the five personality factors, STDCR, and the mean football ability ratings. A regression equation for predicting the rated football ability for each of the seven categories of positions was established. It was found that a statistically significant correlation coefficient (r=.27) existed between factor S (social introversion-extroversion) and the mean football ability ratings. The correlation was significant at the .05 level of confidence. For the positions of offensive linemen and defensive ends the zero-order correlation coefficients (r=.56 and .70 respectively) obtained between factor S and football ability were statistically significant at the .05 level of confidence. On four of the seven categories of positions, the multiple correlation coefficients obtained between various combinations of personality factors, STDCR, and rated football ability were statistically significant at the .05 level of confidence. The four categories of positions and the statistically significant multiple correlation coefficient for each were: (A) offensive linemen, (R=.79), (B) defensive backs, (R=.75), (C) defensive ends, (R=.85), and (D) defensive linebackers, (R=.99). The reliability of the mean ratings derived from the use of the Cowell and Ismail Football Rating Scale v/as .93, and the reliability of the seven raters using the scale was .64. It was found that the mean C-scores for all subjects as a whole and for all subjects within seven categories of positions were within the ambivert range of C-scores. It was concluded that: (1) There is a low and positive relationship between personality factor S and the rated football ability of all football athletes (N=74), (2) There are high significant relationships between various combinations of personality factors, STDCR, and rated football ability in four of the seven categories of positions. The personality factors, STDCR, and rated football ability yield a significant relationship (R=.79) for offensive linemen (N=14) The personality factors, STDCR, and rated football ability yield a significant relationship (R=.75) for defensive backs (N=15). The personality factors, SDCR, and rated football ability yield a significant relationship (R=.85) for defensive ends (N=9). The personality factors, TDR, and rated football ability yield a significant relationship (R=.99) for defensive linebackers (N=5).Item (Un)natural athletes: The rhetoric of gender performances in sports and the media(2013-08) Schwertner, Amanda J.; Scholl, Juliann C.; Gring, Mark A.; Castle-Bell, GinaThis thesis works to challenge the dominant cultural conceptions. I will show how we view bodies and how the person, their character, and ability are read through sporting performances. The thesis focuses on how “masculine” performances are communicated in the media. I analyze two texts, one masculine and one feminine, in order to show how the media (re)produces gender ideologies in relation to athletic bodies. I analyze both texts using a critical cultural lens in order to uncover the role the body plays in the evaluation of the athletes and their performances. The analysis revealed that there are deep seated cultural ideologies related to speed, toughness, autonomy, and domination associated with sports discourses. The first analysis shows how this preoccupation with masculinity pushes male athletes to disregard their bodies and push through in order to play where as the second analysis shows how female athletes cause a dissonance when they exhibit the same characteristics. Female athletes often find their gender and biological sex in question when they do perform well and push themselves to their physical limits. This has more to do with the fact that the gender differences are located in the physical bodies of the athletes rather than there being an actual issues with biological sex. Gender ideologies are pervasive in our culture and they are hard to overcome, even when we are aware they are there. I propose of new definition of sports related violence, one that takes into account violence done to the self and other in order to have the physical body adhere to the cultural norm. I also call for a rhetoric of fairness and equality that not only refers to issues of race, class, and gender, but also of mind and body, one that can help us “overcome” the dualistic notions we still hold of the body and takes into account the natural variations and experiences of the human body.