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Bob Kap Archive #4

Description: Silent film of the Intercontinental Football League's (IFL's) 1976 European tour to promote American football as a leisure activity. It includes footage of players on buses and in cars, football games, spectators, cheerleaders, European scenery and promotional activities. Many stills of promotional brochures, newspaper articles, and photographs are included.
Date: 1976
Duration: 6 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Intercontinental Football League
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Something Old... Something New

Description: Film that re-caps the Dallas Cowboys' 1973 season, which they started as underdogs but ended with a 10-4 record. The film compiles footage from games throughout the 1973 season. A narrator points out highlights of each game and singles out remarkable players. The film's colors are significantly faded.
Date: 1973
Duration: 12 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Sabol, Ed
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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The Intercontinental Football League presents Touchdown in Europe 1976

Description: Compilation film of home movies and news coverage of the 1976 Intercontinental Football League's (IFL) European tour of Germany, Austria, and France promoting American football as a leisure activity. Includes footage of football game play, spectators, cheerleaders, and promotional activities. The narration implies that this film was used to promote the IFL and its potential as a revenue source.
Date: 1976
Duration: 17 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Intercontinental Football League
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Letter from Gordon Tovani to Bob Kap, October 13, 191]

Description: Letter from Gordon Tovani to Bob Kap, kicking scout of the Dallas Cowboys, discussing to the October 4th Sports Illustrated issue where a statement reads, "in three or four years there will be no more American-style kickers in the NFL," and all that kickers will be former soccer players.
Date: October 13, 1971
Creator: Tovani, Gordon
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of Bob Kap and Toni Fritsch]

Description: Photograph of Bob Kap (left) with Toni Fritsch, a European soccer player whom Kap recruited for the Dallas Cowboys. They appear to both be kneeling; Kap is wearing a suit with a ribbon around his left arm and Fritsch is wearing his football uniform holding his helmet in his right arm.
Date: [1971..]
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Clipping: Walter Fuchs kicks as coach Bob Kap holds]

Description: Newspaper clipping of a photograph with the caption "Walter Fuchs kicks as coach Bob Kap holds." Fuchs (right) is wearing a football uniform and Kap is kneeling next to him; the football is visible in the left side of the image, having just been kicked. A handwritten note above the caption says "shoes" with an arrow toward Fuchs' feet.
Date: [1971..]
Creator: Winter, Rolf
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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