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How the war in France changed football forever.

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| February 01, 1986 | Furlong, William Barry | COPYRIGHT 1986 Smithsonian Institution. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

How the war in France changed football forever

On a sweltering summer day early in the 1960s, a white-shocked old tactician named Clark D. Shaughnessy uttered three words that explained one of the great turning points of the country's most urgent televised obsession. At the time he was the ranking--not to say only--intellectual in professional football. He had the rate gift of seeing ideas from a different angle of vision and applying them in quite unpredictable ways to his own life. So that summer day when I fell back on the old sportswriter's favorite "Who had the greatest impact on your field in your lifetime?' he did not replay "Knute Rockne' or "The ...

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