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Episode #113 It All Stems from Byrom Street: The Roots of Sports Science
In this month’s roundup, Keith Davids and Ian Renshaw go back to where sports science began. In 1975, Liverpool Polytechnic launched the world’s first single-honours sports science degree at Byrom Street, Liverpool. It grew out of three scientists’ support work with Everton Football Club. As the 1986–89 cohort gathers in Liverpool for its 40th anniversary reunion, Keith and Ian trace how that small course shaped sports science across the UK and around the world.
They talk about the people and places behind the early growth: Tom Reilly’s foundational role, Mike Hughes and Keith Lyons’s early…
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