Up and under: Eddie waring, television and the image of rugby league

Sports Historian

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 115-137

  Williams, Jack ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1080/17460260209443684     Document Type: Article

References (74)

1. Ian Woolridge writing in the Daily Mail, 7 May 1976.
2. Now, 11 January 1980.
3. G. Whannel, Fields in Vision: Television Sport and Cultural Transformation, (London: Routledge, 1992)
4. R. Holt and T. Mason, Sport in Britain 1945-2000, (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000), chapter 5
5. Dewsbury Reporter, 29 May, 31 August 1943.
6. Information supplied by Mr. Tony Waring.
7. E. Waring, The Great Ones, (London: Pelham, 1969).
8. ‘Up and Under’, Radio 5 Voices of Sport series, first broadcast 16 November 1997.
9. Sunday Times, 3 May 1981.
10. Information supplied by Mr David Oxley.
11. Sunday Times, 24 November 1968.
12. Daily Mail, 30 December 1967.
13. Quoted by D. Howes, ‘The Talking Trilby’, The Official Rugby League Centenary Magazine, (1995), p. 67.
14. Express and Star, 9 February 1978.
15. Official Rugby League Centenary Magazine, p. 68.
16. Sunday Times, 24 November 1968.
17. Express and Star, 9 February 1978.
18. John Player Rugby League Yearbook 1973-4, p.202.
19. J. Waterman, ‘Eddie Waring: The patter of grimy feet’, Listener, 6 November 1975, p. 611.
20. Sunday Times, 24 November 1968.
21. Sunday Mirror, 17 October 1971.
22. Today, 12 May 1962.
23. Sunday Times, 24 November 1968.
24. Information supplied by Mr Tony Waring.
25. Guardian, 29 October 1986.
26. Sunday Mirror, 17 October 1971.
27. Audience Research Report, Grandstand, 9 May 1970, BBC Written Archives: VR/70/234.
28. Audience Research Report, Floodlit Rugby League, The Final, BBC Written Archives: VR/9J/547.
29. Rugby Leaguer, 26 May 1976. I wish to thank Mr Robert Gate for letting me consult his collections of the Rugby League, the Rugby League Review and his scrapbooks of rugby league press cuttings.
30. W. Fallowfield to the Rugby League Council, 21 February 1959, Television File, Rugby League Archives. I wish to thank Dr Tony Collins, the archivist to the Rugby League, for giving me access to the Rugby League Archives and for drawing my attention to so many materials.
31. W. Fallowfield to the Special Committee, 10 January 1965, Rugby League Archives.
32. Report of the Special Committee to the Rugby League Council, 8 March 1965, Rugby League Archives.
33. Rugby League Council Minutes, 8 January 1959, 13 March 1961, 5 April 1966, Rugby League Archives.
34. T. Mitchell, B. Cowgill, 7 March 1974, BBC Written Archives: Rugby League Football Agreements: T42/40/1.
35. Undated press cutting from the Daily Mail, Rugby League in Wales and Scotland press cuttings, E57 Rugby League Archives.
36. Undated press cutting,.
37. Unidentified press cutting but its context shows that it was from 1970-71, Rugby League in Wales and Scotland Press Cuttings, Rugby League Archives.
38. Information supplied by Mr D. Oxley.
39. Unidentified press cutting, 28 November 1959, Rugby League in Wales and Scotland press cuttings, E57, Rugby League Archives.
40. Rugby Leaguer, 29 September 1971.
41. Yorkshire Evening Post, 5 January 1973.
42. Undated press cuttings, Rugby League in Wales and Scotland press cuttings, E57 Rugby League Archives.
43. Information supplied by Mr John Caine.
44. Rugby Leaguer, 3 September 1969.
45. Undated press cutting, Rugby League in Wales and Scotland press cuttings, E57 Rugby League Archives. The context of this letter shows that it must have been written just after the 1971 Lancashire Cup Final.
46. Listener, 6 November 1975, p. 611.
47. St Helens Reporter, 21 May 1976.
48. Daily Mail, 7 May 1976.
49. Daily Mail, 22 April 1976
50. (London)Evening News, undated cutting butobviously from April of May 1976, BBC Written Archives.
51. (London) Evening News, undated press cutting but obviously either April or May 1976, BBC Written Archives.
52. Dewsbury Reporter, 31 October 1986
53. Information supplied by Mr Tony Waring.
54. Information supplied by Mr Dave Parker.
55. For a summary of the Caine Report and of the press conference called by the BCC, see The Times, 13, 14 October 1971.
56. B. Cowgill, W. Fallowfield, 25 October 1971, BBC Written Archives: Rugby League Football General: T42/39/1.
57. Sunday Mirror, 17 October 1971.
58. Rugby Leaguer, 20 October 1971.
59. Yorkshire Evening Post, 13 October 1971.
60. Daily Mail, 1 May 1976.
61. Yorkshire Post, 30 January 1981.
62. Rugby League Review, 25 October 1951, p. 68.
63. T. Collins, Rugby’s Great Split: Class, Culture and the Origins of Rugby League Football, (London: Cass, 1998), p. 159 shows that very soon after the split from the Rugby Union many clubs had serious financial problems.
64. W. Fallowfield to the Rugby League Council, 4 February 1966, Rugby League Council Minutes
65. D. Oxley, T. Preston, 18 August 1974, BBC Written Archives: Rugby League Football Agreements: T42/40/1.
66. Rugby League Council Minutes, 30 December 1955
67. W. Fallowfield to the Rugby League Council, 4 February 1966.
68. W. Fallowfield, B. Cowgill, 18 May 1973, BBC Written Archives: Rugby League Football General: T42/39/1.
69. Income and Expenditure Account 1981-82, Rugby League Council Minutes.
70. Rugby League Council Minutes, 11 May 1965.
71. Income and Expenditure Account 1980-81, Rugby League Council Minutes
72. The Three Fives 1981 Challenge Cup Final, p. 5.
73. John Player Rugby League Yearbook 1973-4, p. 200.
74. Information supplied by Mr. Maurice Oldroyd.