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The Longest Yard (1974 film)

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The Longest Yard is a 1974 American sports comedy film directed by Robert Aldrich, written by Tracy Keenan Wynn and based on a story by producer Albert S. Ruddy. [1]

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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Adam Sandler

Adam Richard Sandler (born September 9, 1966) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, film producer, and musician.

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Albert S. Ruddy

Albert S. Ruddy (born March 28, 1930) is a Canadian-born film and television producer.

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American Film Institute

The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.

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American football

American football, referred to as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

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Anitra Ford

Anitra Ford (born September 3, 1942) is an American actress, model, poet, and photographer.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Atlanta Falcons

The Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta.

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Bernadette Peters

Bernadette Peters (born Bernadette Lazzara; February 28, 1948) is an American actress, singer and children's book author.

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Box Office Mojo

Founded in 1999, Box Office Mojo tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way, and publishes the data on its website.

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British Board of Film Classification

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), previously the British Board of Film Censors, is a non-governmental organization, founded by the film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, trailers, adverts, public Information/campaigning films, menus, bonus content etc.) released on physical media within the United Kingdom.

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Burt Reynolds

Burton Leon Reynolds Jr. (born February 11, 1936) is an American actor, director, and producer.

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Charles Tyner

Charles Tyner (June 8, 1925 – November 8, 2017) was an American actor.

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Chicago Bears

The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois.

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Citroën SM

The Citroën SM is a high-performance coupé produced by the French manufacturer Citroën from 1970 to 1975.

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College football

College football is American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities.

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Comedy film

Comedy is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor.

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Ed Lauter

Edward Matthew Lauter Jr. (October 30, 1938 – October 16, 2013), known as Ed Lauter, was an American actor and stand-up comedian.

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Eddie Albert

Edward Albert Heimberger (April 22, 1906 – May 26, 2005), known professionally as Eddie Albert, was an American actor and activist.

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Ernie Wheelwright (running back)

Ernest Lamour 'Wheels' Wheelwright (November 28, 1939 - May 1, 2001) was an American football player.

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Florida State University

Florida State University (Florida State or FSU) is a public space-grant and sea-grant research university with its primary campus on a campus in Tallahassee, Florida.

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Frank De Vol

Frank Denny De Vol (September 20, 1911 – October 27, 1999), also known simply as De Vol, was an American arranger, composer and actor.

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Georgia State Prison

Georgia State Prison is the main maximum security facility in the state of Georgia for the Georgia Department of Corrections.

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Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy is an award presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

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Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy has been awarded annually since 1952 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA).

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Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture

The Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in 1944 for a performance in a motion picture released in the previous year.

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Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor

The Golden Globe for New Star of the Year – Actor was an award given by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association at their annual Golden Globe Awards.

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Green Bay Packers

The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

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Hal Needham

Hal Brett Needham (March 6, 1931 – October 25, 2013) was an American stuntman, film director, actor and writer.

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James Hampton (actor)

James Wade Hampton (born July 9, 1936) is an American actor, television director, and screenwriter.

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Jim Nicholson (American football)

James Burton Nicholson, Jr. (born February 28, 1949 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is a former professional American football offensive tackle in the National Football League.

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Jimmy Carter

James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981.

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Joe Kapp

Joseph Robert Kapp (born March 19, 1938) is an American former football player, coach, and executive.

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John Steadman (actor)

John Steadman (July 20, 1909 – January 28, 1993) was an American actor.

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Joseph Biroc

Joseph Francis Biroc, A.S.C. (February 12, 1903 – September 7, 1996) was an American Academy Award-winning cinematographer.

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Linebacker

A linebacker (LB or backer) is a playing position in American football and Canadian football.

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List of American films of 1974

A list of American films released in 1974.

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Los Angeles Rams

The Los Angeles Rams are a professional American football team based in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.

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Mad (magazine)

Mad (stylized as MAD) is an American humor magazine founded in 1952 by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines, launched as a comic book before it became a magazine.

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Mean Machine (film)

Mean Machine is a 2001 British sports comedy film directed by Barry Skolnick.

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Michael Conrad

Michael Conrad (October 16, 1925November 22, 1983) was an American actor perhaps best known for his portrayal of veteran cop Sgt.

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Michael Fox (American actor)

Michael Fox (born Myron Melvin Fox, February 27, 1921 – June 1, 1996) was an American character actor who was in numerous movies and television roles.

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Michael Luciano

Michael Luciano (May 2, 1909 – September 15, 1992) was an American film and television editor with about forty feature film credits and many additional credits for television programs.

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Mike Henry (American football)

Michael Dennis Henry (born August 15, 1936) is an American retired actor and former football linebacker.

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Minnesota Vikings

The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Mohamed Imam

Mohamed Adel Imam (محمد عادل إمام) is an Egyptian actor.

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National Football League

The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC).

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New Orleans Saints

The New Orleans Saints are a professional American football team based in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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New York Giants

The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area.

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Oakland Raiders

The Oakland Raiders are a professional American football franchise based in Oakland, California.

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Palm Beach, Florida

The Town of Palm Beach is an incorporated town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994.

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Pepper Martin (actor)

Howard "Pepper" Martin (born September 20, 1936) is a Canadian-American retired actor and professional wrestler.

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Pervis Atkins

Pervis R. Atkins Jr. (November 24, 1935 – December 22, 2017) was an American football player.

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Pittsburgh Steelers

The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Point shaving

In organized sports, point shaving is a type of match fixing where the perpetrators try to prevent a team from covering a published point spread.

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Prison warden

The warden (US, Canada) or governor (UK, Australia), also known as a superintendent (US, South Asia) or director (UK, New Zealand), is the official who is in charge of a prison.

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Pro Football Hall of Fame

The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the hall of fame for professional American football, located in Canton, Ohio.

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Professional wrestling attacks

Attacking maneuvers are offensive moves in professional wrestling, used to set up an opponent for a submission hold or for a throw.

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Quarterback

A quarterback (commonly abbreviated "QB") is a position in American and Canadian football.

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Ray Nitschke

Raymond Ernest Nitschke (December 29, 1936 – March 8, 1998) was a professional American football middle linebacker who spent his entire 15-year National Football League (NFL) career with the Green Bay Packers.

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Ray Ogden

Raymond Douglas Ogden is a former professional American football wide receiver.

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Reidsville, Georgia

Reidsville is a city in Tattnall County, Georgia, United States.

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Richard Kiel

Richard Dawson Kiel (September 13, 1939 – September 10, 2014) was an American actor, voice artist, and comedian, best known for his role as Jaws in the ''James Bond'' franchise, portraying the character in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979); he lampooned the role with a tongue-in-cheek cameo in Inspector Gadget (1999).

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Robert Aldrich

Robert Burgess Aldrich (August 9, 1918 – December 5, 1983) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.

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Robert Tessier

Robert W. Tessier (June 2, 1934 – October 11, 1990) was an American actor and stuntman who was best known for playing heavy, menacing characters in films and on television.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Sonny Shroyer

Otis Burt "Sonny" Shroyer, Jr. (born August 28, 1935) is an American actor who has appeared in various television and movie roles.

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Sonny Sixkiller

, Alex L. "Sonny" Sixkiller (born September 6, 1951) is a former American football player and current sports commentator.

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Sports film

A sports film is a film genre that uses sport as the theme of a film.

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The Death Match

The Death Match (Матч смерти) (Матч смерті) is a name given in postwar historiography to the football match played in Kiev in Reichskommissariat Ukraine (abbreviated RKU) under occupation by Nazi Germany.

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The Longest Yard (2005 film)

The Longest Yard is a 2005 American sports comedy film and a remake of the 1974 film of the same name.

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Tracy Keenan Wynn

Tracy Keenan Wynn (born February 28, 1945 in Hollywood, California, USA) is an American screenwriter whose credits include The Longest Yard, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (both 1974), and The Deep (1977).

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Two Half Times in Hell

Two Halves in Hell (Hungarian: Két félidő a pokolban), also known as The Last Goal, is a 1962 Hungarian war drama film directed and co-written by Zoltán Fábri.

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University of Washington

The University of Washington (commonly referred to as UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington.

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Vinnie Jones

Vincent Peter Jones (born 5 January 1965) is a British actor and former professional footballer who played as a midfielder from 1984 to 1999, notably for Wimbledon, Leeds United, Sheffield United, Chelsea and Wales.

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Washington Huskies football

The Washington Huskies football team represents the University of Washington in college football.

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Washington Redskins

The Washington Redskins are a professional American football team based in the Washington metropolitan area.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Longest_Yard_(1974_film)

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