Chuck Korr is a Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Missouri, St. Louis and is Visiting Research Professor in the International Centre for Sport History and Culture at De Monfort University. He continues to teach a graduate seminar in comparative history of sport and has lectured in the FIFA MA program since its inception. In 1969, he received his Ph.D. in seventeenth century English history. Since 1973, the focus of his research and teaching has been sport history with emphasis on social, political, and economic issues. He has lectured on sport history in more than fifteen countries on five continents. He has twice been a visiting professor at the University of the Western Capein Cape Town, South Africa. He was an assistant to the Mayor of the City of St. Louis from 1977 to 1981, an adviser to the Cape Town 2004 Olympic Bid Committee and to the Robben Island Museum, and has been a consultant and on-air participant in numerous television and radio broadcasts. In addition to his academic publications, his writing has appeared in newspapers including The Observer and the New York Sunday Times. Chuck Korr is a Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Missouri, St. Louis and is Visiting Research Professor in the International Centre for Sport History and Culture at De Monfort University. He continues to teach a graduate seminar in comparative history of sport and has lectured in the FIFA MA program since its inception. In 1969, he received his Ph.D. in seventeenth century English history. Since 1973, the focus of his research and teaching has been sport history with emphasis on social, political, and economic issues. He has lectured on sport history in more than fifteen countries on five continents. He has twice been a visiting professor at the University of the Western Capein Cape Town, South Africa. He was an assistant to the Mayor of the City of St. Louis from 1977 to 1981, an adviser to the Cape Town 2004 Olympic Bid Committee and to the Robben Island Museum, and has been a consultant and on-air participant in numerous television and radio broadcasts. In addition to his academic publications, his writing has appeared in newspapers including The Observer and the New York Sunday Times.