Greater Game
Sporting Icons Who Fell in the Great War
Published on 22. September 2008
208 pages
978-1-78337-595-0 (ISBN)
Description
This fascinating book examines the deadly impact of The Great War on a number of leading professional sportsmen of the age. Their untimely deaths pressed home how even the fittest and most gifted were vulnerable and their loss was felt by far more than their families and friends.Among those featured in this well illustrated book are: Donald Bell - the only professional football player to win the Victoria Cross: Anthony Wilder - the glamorous Wimbledon champion who fell in May 1915; Francois Faber - the Tour de France star: Percy Poulton Palmer - England Rugby Captain; and numerous others. Also covered are those sports-orientated units such as 16 Battalion Royal Scots (formed around Heart of Midlothian FC) and 11 King's Royal Rifle Corps (professional golfers). We learn of their formation, training and war service. Finally the authors study the effect of the conflict on the world of sport - canceling of fixture, use of facilities etc.
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Authors' Introductions
- Chapter 1: Ronald Poulton Palmer 'His presence was like a gleam of sunshine'
- Chapter 2: Tony Wilding Tennis star, Heart Throb and 'Motor Bandit'
- Chapter 3: Henry Berry 'A fast and clever forward'
- Chapter 4: Arthur Montague Septimus Jones Making his Mark
- Chapter 5: Donald Simpson Bell 'One of the best types of the professional footballer...scrupulously fair in his play'
- Chapter 6: Frank 'One Eye' McGee 'You don't see many like him'
- Chapter 7: Frederick Septimus Kelly 'His boat a living thing under him'
- Chapter 8: Alex Sandy Turnbull 'Much more ot sacrifice than many men I know'
- Chapter 9: Jack Harrison VC, MC An 'Airlie Birds' Legend
- Chapter 10: Edgar Mobbs 'For God's sake, Sir, get down'
- Chapter 11: Colin Blythe 'A thing of beauty'
- Chapter 12: Sporting France in the Great War 'Les Bleus'
- Chapter 13: Boxers of the Great War Seconds Out!
- Chapter 14: Association Football Goes to War
- Chapter 15: Sporting Units Raised during the Great War Fore!King and Country - 13th Battalion, The Rifle Brigade
- Chapter 16: The Heart of Midlothian 16th Battalion, The Royal Scots
- Chapter 17: The 'Footballer's Battablions' 17th and 23rd Battalions, The Middlesex Regiment
- Chapter 18: The 'Sportsman's Battalions' 23rd and 24th battalions, The Royal Fusiliers
- Chapter 19: Army Physical Training The Spirit of Sport
- Bibliography and Sources
- Index
