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Publication Open Access Pageants, Popularity Contests and Spanish Identities in 1920s New York(2019) Bunk, Brian DPublication Open Access Sport in an Authoritarian Regime: The Primo de Rivera Era in Spain, 1923-30(2017) Bunk, Brian DThe 1920s were part of Spanish literature’s Silver Age but for some of the nation’s athletes it was more of a Golden Age. The national football team won the silver medal at the 1920 Olympic games and in 1929 became the first team outside the United Kingdom to beat England. In 1926, heavyweight boxer Paulino Uzcudun claimed the European championship and tennis star Lili Alvarez began a run of three consecutive women’s singles finals at Wimbledon. Many of these sporting successes came during the dictatorship of General Miguel Primo de Rivera who seized power in 1923. Analyzing the dictatorship’s attitudes and actions toward sport helps illuminate the transitional nature of the regime and sheds light on how Spaniards considered the changing roles that sport could play in both national and international contexts. The government and other powerful voices in the country maintained an uneasy relationship with modern sport and unlike authoritarian regimes in Italy, Germany or Brazil, never attempted to fully organize, control or promote athletic activities beyond physical education programs. Such notions limited government intervention in sport and prevented the nation from effectively promoting itself through athletic success.Publication Open Access Football Outside the Schools in the United States before Codification(2019) Bunk, Brian DOne of the pillars of the so-called revisionist position in the football origins debate is that the presence of ‘small-sided mainly kicking games’ supports the thesis that organised football had been played outside of the public schools, and that these contests showed signs of advanced structure, including set rules and teams, along with a degree of commercialisation. The purpose of this essay is not to debate the significance of the matches played in England, but rather to show that while there are references to football clubs, there is virtually no evidence that formal small-sided kicking games were widely played outside the schools in the United States (US) before 1863. Nevertheless, there is some evidence to suggest that the incidents of both informal and formal matches increased or at the very least such matches received more attention from newspapers during the 1850s, though small-sided mainly kicking games between formal football clubs were not widely played in the US before 1863.