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6 results for your search term: “football”.

Mises on human action, predicting the future, and who will win the World Cup Football tournament (1966)

Two football teams, the Blues and the Yellows, will play tomorrow. In the past the Blues have alw...
Frederick Pollock argues that a violent assault on the football field is not an actionable tort because it is part of the activities of a voluntarily agreed to association of adults (1895)

There are incidents, again, in every football match which an uninstructed observer might easily t...
Herbert Spencer worries that the violence and brutalities of football will make it that much harder to create a society in which individual rights will be mutually respected (1879)

A nature which generates international hatreds and intense desires for revenge–which breeds dueli...
Nisbet on how violent, contact sports like football redirect people’s energies away from war (1988)

It is good that sports are so important. They—and especially the contact or “violent” ones like f...
The Earl of Shaftesbury relates the story of an unscrupulous glazier who gives the rowdy town youths a football so they will smash windows in the street and thus drum up business (1737)

So have I known a crafty Glazier, in time of Frost, procure a Football, to draw into the Street t...
John Hobson argues that sport plays an important part in British imperialism for all classes and that the “spirit of adventure” is now played out in the colonies (1902)

This “spirit of adventure,” especially in the Anglo-Saxon, has taken the shape of “sport,” which ...