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17 January 1597 — a court of law in Guildford heard from a 59-year-old coroner, John Derrick, who gave witness that when he was a scholar at the "Free School at Guildford", fifty years earlier, "hee and diverse of his fellows did runne and play at creckett and other plaies " on common land which was the subject of the current legal dispute ...
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1600 bc Docudrama which depicts a re-enactment of the events surrounding the Minoan eruption , a major catastrophic volcanic eruption in the island of Thera (modern Santorini ). The historical eruption devastated the island and communities and agricultural areas on nearby islands and Crete .
There were many great sports movies that didn't make the top 10, but still deserve recognition. Some of these include "Bull Durham," "The Natural," "Moneyball," "Friday Night Lights," and "Warrior."
Below, some of our favorite, most triumphant sports movies, arranged roughly into the medal categories where we feel they belong. Get the most durable and absorbent tissues you can find, and dive in.
Sports became increasingly popular in England and Ireland through the 17th century and there are several references to cricket and horse racing, while bare-knuckle boxing was revived. The interest of gamblers in these sports gave rise to professionalism. The first known attempts to organise football took place in Ireland.
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Sport on Film and Video. New-York: The Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810827394. Sicks, Kai Marcel and Stauff, Markus (eds.) (2010). Filmgenres: Sportfilm [sic]. Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam . ISBN 978-3-15-018786-9. Wallenfeldt, Jeffrey H. (1989). Sports Movies: A Guide to Nearly 500 Films Focusing on Sports. CineBooks. ISBN 9780933997240.