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Tackle football has been one of the most popular sports for boys in the United States since the mid-twentieth century. This dissertation examines how debates over the safety of football for children at the high school level and younger have changed from 1945 through the present. After World War II, the expansion of youth tackle football leagues, particularly for pre-pubescent children, fostered a new range of medical and educational concerns. Yet calls for limits on tackle football were largely obscured by the political and social culture of the Cold War, including beliefs about violence, masculinity, and competition. A broad range of groups and individuals were involved in debating the safety of youth football throughout the remainder of the twentieth and early twenty-first century. These groups included doctors, coaches, educators, lawyers, engineers, parents, athletes, journalists, and sporting goods manufacturers. Their arguments over the risks and benefits of youth football involved not only the sport’s effects on physical health, but also on social and emotional well-being. By the 1970s, researchers were applying injury epidemiology methods to studying key mechanisms involved in football injuries, while a broader consumer product safety movement contributed to the development of the first football helmet standards. Football equipment not only remained a primary focus of football safety debates, but often symbolized safety itself. Sporting goods manufacturers largely succeeded in framing the issue of football safety as a matter of individual responsibility. The social position of children and their communities shaped debates over the risks and benefits of football, including the sport’s spectator nature. By the early twentieth-first century, concerns about football-related brain injuries at all levels of the sport emerged as a topic of national debate. New medical findings and the reporting and advocacy of journalists and former athletes contributed to increasing awareness of brain trauma in the sport. Debates over the appropriate policy recommendations to make in the context of uncertainty over youth football’s long-term consequences have persisted since 1945 through the present.

Yeung Wing Kai. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2002-2003, design report." / Includes bibliographical references (leaf [156]). / Introduction --- p.3 / Thesis proposal --- p.4-13 / The ConnectinglTransitiorillntermediate Space between Building and Environment --- p.14 / Schedules --- p.15-16 / Proposed Client´ؤHong Kong Football Association / Existing Location / Plans of the HKFA Building --- p.17-21 / "Interview with Martin Lam, General Secretary of HKFA" --- p.22-26 / Researches --- p.27-43 / Site Information / Site Selection --- p.44-47 / "Site Analysis ,Site Potentials and Constraints" --- p.48-71 / Design Developments --- p.72 / Prelimary Design --- p.73-86 / Sketches of Ideas --- p.87-91 / Scheme01 --- p.92-98 / Scheme02 --- p.99-103 / Scheme03 --- p.104-116 / Scheme04 --- p.117-131 / Final Design --- p.132-151 / Appendix --- p.152 / Otters to Building Department --- p.153-154 / Letters to HKFA asking for interviews --- p.155 / Biblography --- p.156

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Proefschrift--Universiteit voor Humanistiek te Utrecht, 2004. / Résumé en néerlandais. Bibliogr. p. 150-156.

Thesis (PhD) -- AUT University, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references. Also held in print (17, 77, 46 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.) in the Archive at the City Campus (T 617.10276333 QUA)

Thesis (Ph. D., Education)--University of Idaho, May 2009. / Major professor: Sharon Kay Stoll. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 131-139). Also available online (PDF file) by subscription or by purchasing the individual file.

Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio State University, 1950. / Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.