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Quite clearly, the spirit of Billy Clyde Puckett lives on and on, far beyond the pages of the novel that gave a name to the darker forces coursing through the game since its earliest days. Spokespersons influential and numerous have long essayed vigorously to exorcise it from the soul of commercial football. They would cast it out and give the ethos of Frank Merriwell full reign over the game if they could.
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Kerr, R.L. (2015). Scenes from the Conundrum in Motion. In: How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism: The Billy Clyde Conundrum. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137534071_5
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