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2004

University of Central Florida

Arete, Sport and Society, American Sport History, Football, Thanksgiving, NFL, intercollegiate football

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Thanksgiving, Richard C. Crepeau Nov 2004

Thanksgiving, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

(As with all American traditions if it happened once or twice it is one. Therefore I present my traditional Thanksgiving piece) The History of Thanksgiving and of Football both go back into the Middle Ages, and so it may not be so strange that the two would become intertwined in modern America.