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Burton Jesse Hendrick (December 8, 1870 – March 23, 1949), born in New Haven, Connecticut, was an American author. While attending Yale University, Hendrick was editor of both The Yale Courant and The Yale Literary Magazine. He received his BA in 1895 and his master's in 1897 from Yale.
Greater is a 2016 American biographical sports film directed by David Hunt and starring Christopher Severio as American football player Brandon Burlsworth, a walk-on college player who became an All-American, dying in a car crash 11 days after being drafted high in the 3rd round to the National Football League.
"The movie contains a certain amount of basketball, but for once here's a sports movie where everything doesn't depend on who wins the big game," he wrote. "It's how they win it. What Friedkin brings to the story is a tone that feels completely accurate; the movie is a morality play, told in the realistic, sometimes cynical terms of modern high ...
Wildcats. Metascore: 41 "Wildcats" doesn't top many best-of lists, and the 1986 comedy certainly wasn't the first to use sports as a backdrop for tackling issues of sexism, racial prejudice, and ...
Tom Dawson in The List reported that it "is widely considered to be the toughest and most insightful screen depiction of football hooligans". [6] Vice critic Harry Sword wrote that "The Firm remains the definitive celluloid document on football hooliganism: a panoramic masterpiece that captured a world of vicious violence and material ...
An unnamed (fictional) professional football league is hit with a players' strike with four games left in the season. Washington Sentinels [3] [4] owner Edward O'Neil calls a former coach of his, Jimmy McGinty, telling him that the league's going to finish the regular season with replacement players, and asks McGinty to return to coach the Sentinels the rest of the season, adding that winning ...
Woodlawn is a 2015 American Christian sports drama film directed by the Erwin Brothers.Based on the true story of Tandy Gerelds [5] and Tony Nathan, [6] it stars Sean Astin, Nic Bishop, Caleb Castille, Sherri Shepherd, Jon Voight, and C. Thomas Howell.
Escape to Victory (or simply Victory) is a 1981 American sports war film [3] directed by John Huston and starring Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine, Max von Sydow and Pelé.The film is about Allied prisoners of war who are interned in a German prison camp during the Second World War who play an exhibition match of football against a German team.