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	Football War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The social situation in both countries in the run-up to the war was explosive, and their military governments were looking for a convenient cause towards which to direct their nationals' political concerns.
		Essentially both sides 'lost' the war; neither gained a decisive military victory and the death toll of approximately 2000 was shared approximately equally between the two.
		The war led to a 12-year suspension of the Central American Common Market, a regional integration project that had been set up by the United States largely as a means of counteracting the effects of the Cuban Revolution.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Football_War (646 words)

	Football helps war-affected children in Liberia
		On a dirt field behind the Catholic Hospital in Liberia, a spirited football match is underway.
		Teams of young people, many of whom were on opposite sides during the seven-year-long war, now compete peacefully, if energetically, on a football pitch.
		He has a football scholarship to attend a local high school, and sports have been a major emotional outlet for him.
	www.unicef.org /football/world/liberia.html (279 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Football World Cup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Football World Cup (official name: FIFA World Cup) is the most important competition in international football (soccer).
		Amateur football became a part of the official Olympic programme for the first time in 1908 (See: Football at the 1908 Summer Olympics).
		Italy, Germany and Switzerland sent their most prestigious professional club sides to the competition but The Football Association of England refused to be associated with it and declined the offer to send a team.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Football_World_Cup (1805 words)

	Football and America: Korean War - Pro Football Hall of Fame
		Among those NFL players who were on active duty during World War II, fourteen are known to have returned to military service during the Korean War.
		Collins, a Marine reservist, was recalled to active duty in 1951, and served in Korea.
		His pro football career, however, was interrupted in 1951 when he returned to active military duty to serve in Korea.
	www.profootballhof.com /history/general/war/korean/page2.jsp (841 words)

	Khilafah.com - Football: "war minus the shooting" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the midst of the madness, football association president Jacques Anouma approached President Gbagbo with a message: the players wish to communicate that national reconciliation is an issue very close to their hearts.
		Football played a role in the run-up to the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
		The football riots of 2001 were among the most serious mass disturbances Iran has witnessed since the Republican-nationalist revolution of 1979.
	www.khilafah.com /home/category.php?DocumentID=13481&TagID=1 (2616 words)

	Journal
		He appealed to his students to resist their inclination to attend football matches as the sixpence they paid for admission was an indirect inducement for men to stay away from the war and 'cheerful crucifixion'.
		He argued that professional football did not improve the calibre of man and did nothing to improve the sport and, as such, was of no value to the community.
		Football, and sport in general, were seen as providing troops with recreation, as well as keeping them fit for active service.
	www.awm.gov.au /journal/j28/j28-blai.htm (3625 words)

	El Salvador Honduras War 1969
		Criticism of the army was not limited to the public; junior officers were often vocal in their criticism of superiors, and a rift developed between junior and senior officers.
		The war, however, led to a new sense of Honduran nationalism and national pride.
		Like many other conflicts in Salvadoran history, the 1969 war with Honduras, sometimes referred to as the Football War, was rooted in economic disparity.
	www.onwar.com /aced/data/sierra/soccer1969.htm (1727 words)

	Holy War (sports rivalry) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The traditional rivalry between Kraków's two major football clubs, Cracovia and Wisła.
		Holy War (Boston College vs. Notre Dame), a football rivalry between Boston College and Notre Dame.
		Holy War (Utah vs. BYU), a rivalry between the University of Utah and Brigham Young University.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Holy_War_(college_football) (174 words)

	Rutgers Football , It Started Here - The First Intercollegiate Game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The game, which bore little resemblance to its modern-day counterpart, was played with two teams of 25 men each under rugby-like rules, but like modern football, it was “replete with surprise, strategy, prodigies of determination, and physical prowess,” to use the words of one of the Rutgers players.
		Not long before the first football game, the canny Princetonians had settled this competition in their own favor by ignominiously sinking the gun in several feet of concrete.
		Princeton won the second game, but cries of “over-emphasis” prevented the third game in football's first year when faculties of both institutions protested on the grounds that the games were interfering with student studies.
	www.scarletknights.com /football/history/first_game.htm (1660 words)

	The Observer \| Sport \| Football, blood and war
		Away from football and teaching, he works on a history of Red Star, which he researches from a small room in his flat in north Belgrade.
		To these disaffected men and their younger, admiring brothers, football is war and war is football.
		The violence among Serbian football supporters is not as extreme as it was in March 1992 when the Tigers invaded the north stand of the Maracana to display their road signs, their trophies of war.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /osm/story/0,6903,1123137,00.html (2989 words)

	War in the Time of Football - Simon Caterson - Quadrant Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Football has the potential to link aspects of Australian life that are otherwise irreconcilable, the sole effective means to unite different races and creeds.
		Football's violence, it is true, is contained within rules and conventions, and controlled by a punishment regime, but it is also irreducible.
		It might be argued that football now is the continuous re-enactment of the disturbance at the centre of the Australian psyche, a kind of ongoing unconscious national self-therapy for the lingering trauma of war.
	www.quadrant.org.au /php/article_view.php?article_id=819 (5117 words)

	Untitled Document
		The message was unmistakable: “Football is war,” and the promoters of the game were doing everything they could to conflate the two.
		Conflating football with war depends on and extends the myth that war is a game.
		I believe that competitive sports, including contact sports like football, can build camaraderie and teamwork, teach people to respect and not demonize opponents, show them how to persevere through pain, fatigue, and failure, and otherwise train them to be at their best.
	www.giraffe.org /speeches_seahawks.html (1332 words)

	Football War
		The Football War (or Soccer War) was a short war fought by El Salvador and Honduras in 1969.
		Existing tension between the two countries was inflamed by rioting during the second qualifying round for the 1970 Football World Cup.
		On July 14, 1969, the Salvadorian army launched an attack against Honduras.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fo/Football_War.html (130 words)

	Football is war, after all - college use of voluntary practices may lead to further deaths of football players - Brief ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Football is war, after all - college use of voluntary practices may lead to further deaths of football players - Brief Article Sporting News, The - Find Articles
		Football is war, after all - college use of voluntary practices may lead to further deaths of football players - Brief Article
		Whether we love football or hate it, the game is so deeply imbedded in the American psyche of competition that it's with us forever, the good and the bad.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1208/is_36_225/ai_78400283 (439 words)

	Football War - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Football War (or Soccer War), as it was named by the international mass media, was a shortlived war (only 6 days in duration) fought by El Salvador and Honduras in 1969.
		The war ended with a cease-fire prompted by pressure from the United States and the Organization of American States.
		The war brought an end to the Central American Common Market, a regional integration project that had been set up by the United States largely as a means of counteracting the effects of the socialist revolution in Cuba.
	voyager.in /Football_War (772 words)

	Children in war
		I hope that in any country where there is a war, as long as they watch this film they have seen how we the children were destroyed.
		Football referees and the ICRC share a common objective - they seek to ensure respect for the rules, be it on a football field or in times of hostilities and crisis.
		The three ambassadors of the UEFA-ICRC Protect Children in War campaign visited Sierra Leone in March to learn first-hand the effects of war on children in a country that is still recovering from 11 years of war.
	www.icrc.org /eng/children (1011 words)

	My Football War - Swarthmore College Bulletin
		Because Mother liked her summer flowers, Father relished his vegetables, and we all liked picnic suppers on the lawn, our ground rules were intricate to say the least.
		In my senior year, there was no football team, but we did well in both basketball and baseball.
		Avery Blake—excellent as the regular lacrosse coach and world-class as a forgiving mentor—assisted with junior varsity football in his off season.
	www.swarthmore.edu /bulletin/june02/inmylife.html (1427 words)

	Football: Civil war in Liberia touches close to home for Lions tackle
		He has not spoken to his mother in about a year and last heard through a family friend that she was in a hospital.
		Had it not been for his move to the United States, Hali knows he could have been among the young men fighting the war, the ones seen shooting automatic weapons in the streets of Monrovia.
		The present is being occupied by school and football.
	www.post-gazette.com /sports/psu/20030820psu0820p4.asp (653 words)

	Football, war hero 'Motts' Tonelli dies
		On crisp autumn Saturdays on the football field of Notre Dame, the life of a young fullback named Mario "Motts" Tonelli was measured in hashmarks and goal lines.
		He returned from the war a shadow of the 200-pound fullback who once slammed into the line like a sledgehammer.
		The football part of Motts Tonelli's life, though exciting and glamorous, was not.
	www.suntimes.com /output/obituaries/cst-nws-xmotts08.html (897 words)

	Twenty-Sided ? Blog Archive » Football: Total War
		Consider that each war (football game) is divided into many distinct battles (plays) where your army (team) attempts to sieze terrritory (gain yardage) so that they may reach the opposing city (the end zone) and conquer it (score a touchdown).
		But in football it is expected and inevitable that your players will use violence to advance your goals and frustrate the goals of the enemy.
		Yes, I know Europeans get annoyed when we call their football “soccer”, but there is no other way to handle this without causing excess verbosity or confusion.
	www.shamusyoung.com /twentysidedtale?p=81 (669 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Ajax, the Dutch, the War: Football in Europe During the Second World War: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In Ajax, the Dutch, the War, Simon Kuper, broadsheet journalist and author of the bestselling Football Against the Enemy, turns his attention to the Dutch club Ajax of Amsterdam, and the hidden history of the Nazi occupation of Holland in WW2.
		What he finds is the story of a city, its people and its football team, that challenges the semi-truths and misconceptions about civilian lives in wartime that most of us hold--including how and why the mass obsession with football thrived in the unlikeliest circumstances.
		I gave it to my mother to read and she has no interest in football but was in the Navy during the war and she was thoroughly captivated by the different angle on history.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0752842749 (1249 words)

	War, football and the 1914 Christmas truce War Game, directed by Dave Unwin
		War Game recalls both the innocence and the heroism of the young soldiers who fought in the First World War, and the mutual understanding that grew up between the two armies as they suffered together on the front line.
		One of the four characters in the film kicks a football as he leads his company over the top—believed to be based on real experiences such as that of Captain W.P. Nevill on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
		The film attempts to show the mountain of war propaganda that was directed at a generation of young men, complete with the promise that the war would be over before Christmas.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2003/jul2003/xmas-j17.shtml (3722 words)

	Football and America: Korean War - Pro Football Hall of Fame
		Pro football prospered in post-World War II America.
		As a result, a new league, the All-America Football Conference was formed in direct competition with the established NFL.
		However, a more sinister war was just about to begin.
	www.profootballhof.com /history/general/war/korean (243 words)

	Salon.com \| Between football and war
		However, the viewing public doesn't seem to understand that what is being planned by our president is not Gulf War II -- a swift punch in the mouth to our old ally Saddam -- but rather a multiyear occupation by the United States of an independent, powerful and modern Muslim nation rife with ethnic tension.
		History tells us that wars of empire are wars without end, as nationalism is a force that never can be truly suppressed -- just ask the relatives of those killed in the latest suicide bomb attack in Tel Aviv how well Palestinian dreams of statehood are being managed.
		But the war debaters on talk radio and cable news shows manage to meld the mindless partisanship of fans with constant obfuscation, macho posturing and a rattling of credentials all designed to intimidate war skeptics.
	archive.salon.com /opinion/scheer/2003/01/08/war (769 words)

	A Heroic Life - Newsweek The War in Iraq - MSNBC.com
		May 3 issue - When nobody was around, Arizona State University football star Pat Tillman would climb the 10-story light tower at Sun Devil Stadium, certainly without permission, just to gaze at the buttes, the desert, the glow of Phoenix—and ponder the state of the world.
		This was a college kid who, as a freshman, defied the advice of coaches to "red-shirt" and delay his football career a year.
		He was killed in an ambush near Spera, a tiny town of mud huts and a new mosque, in a region rife with Qaeda warriors.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4825949 (1148 words)

	Football is war. \| MetaFilter
		After all, in a sense football is war, as the General famously joked.
		If football is war, the US has already lost to Iran.
		If Iraq was football, the US hasn't won a game since their stunning debut 3 years ago.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/52066 (446 words)

	Sicilian Culture: News: Motts Tonelli's Life in Football & War: To Hell & Back
		The National Football League, as it was being called, was looking for good players, and Charles Bidwill, who'd followed Motts' career, offered him a contract for $4,000 a year.
		He was no longer the innocent football player whose mother had told him where to go to school, happy-go-lucky Motts.He was a man in need of hope.
		He was alive, and for that moment he didn't have to worry about the men who had died and the humanity they tried to take from him and the sorrow that still filled the eyes of the prisoner in the fl-and-white prison camp photo.
	www.sicilianculture.com /news/2002-hellandback.htm (3676 words)

	North Central College - 'Bombs,' 'bullets' and 'blitzes' on the playing field
		That's because, as military people and sports historians note, football and war are quite similar: Teams are separated by an established line of scrimmage, with the offense pushing forward to gain territory.
		In the early 1900s, American leaders saw football as a way to instill in young men the values they'd need in war.
		Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, once said, "The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton." In the 1815 battle, Wellesley and the British defeated the French - a victory Wellesley attributed to the athletic training some of his soldiers received at the English boarding school.
	www.noctrl.edu /x12596.xml?print (1035 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Football \| War of words will rage on
		Watkins' presence underlines the club's threat of legal action, with United accusing the FA of over-reaction and generally mishandling the whole affair.
		Their other main concern is that Ferdinand's confidentiality was breached, with anonymity a key element of the testing process in football.
		But that argument is flawed, as Manchester United's official website revealed Ferdinand's name on Monday night and Professional Footballers' Association chief executive Gordon Taylor repeated his identity in a radio interview on Tuesday.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/football/3185788.stm (691 words)

	Windsor Mann on Football & War on National Review Online
		It is worth noting that American football became popular in the late 19th century — after a war that had divided the nation against itself and pitted brother against brother.
		Writer Jim Weeks suggests that in those volatile postwar years, football emerged as a substitute for war.
		George Orwell once described sport as "war minus the shooting," which, if true, would be a welcome improvement in Iraq and elsewhere.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/mann200602070749.asp (893 words)

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