Maurice Pefferkorn (

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, 23 July 1884 – Paris, 8 August 1953) was a French

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and writer. He specialized in association football. He was an engineer by training, graduated from the Industrial Institute of the North (current Lille Central School), class of 1907. He was notably a sports columnist for the right-wing nationalist newspaper

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. He wrote several books on football, the

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, and athletic sport. He is the winner of the Grand Prize for Sports Literature.

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External links

Jacques Gleyse, Dominique Jorand et Céline Garcia, "Mystique de gauche et mystique de droite en éducation physique en France sous la Troisième République", site Recherches Université de Montpellier 3
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