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Book excerpt / memoir / narrative report
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Summary
This document appears to be page 38 of a memoir or report, likely by a medical professional (possibly Dr. Arnold Mandell, though not explicitly named on this page) associated with the San Diego Chargers between 1971 and 1975. The text details the use of graphology (handwriting analysis) to evaluate the personalities of NFL players and correlate personality types with success in specific football positions. The page also contains a preceding paragraph discussing personality traits associated with different types of musicians.
People (2)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Narrator ('I') | Team Physician |
Served as one of the team physicians for the San Diego Chargers from 1971-1975; conducted handwriting analysis studie...
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| Unidentified Male ('He') | Subject of anecdote |
Discussed in the first paragraph regarding his theories on musicians' personalities matching their instruments.
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Organizations (3)
| Name | Type | Context |
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| San Diego Chargers |
NFL team the narrator worked for.
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| National Football League (NFL) |
League mentioned in the context of player analysis.
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| House Oversight Committee |
Indicated by the document footer stamp.
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Locations (2)
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Implied location of the Chargers.
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Where handwriting samples were stored.
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Relationships (1)
As one of the team physicians of the San Diego Chargers in the years 1971-1975
Key Quotes (4)
"Unbeknown to candidate players and other teams, we used a system of what social scientists call unobtrusive measures of their personalities as part of their evaluations."Source
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"Using 30 standard signs from the French graphology literature and three trained raters, we evaluated the hand writing characteristics of players"Source
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"success was more likely when the player’s personality type fit his football position."Source
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"He claimed that trombonists should be sensually languorous; clarinetists, nervously impatient; double reed instrument players, obsessional and withdrawn; brass players, athletic and exhibitionistic."Source
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bathtub or feeling the seductively diaphragmatically oscillating belly of a taxi dancer.
Pianists with speed problems worked at specially constructed up-side-down
keyboards with the rationale being that finger lifting was more rate limiting than
finger placing. He said that his most hopeless cases were those whose
personalities didn’t fit their choices of instrument, too often made by what position
remained open in the high school band rather than following a personal interview.
He claimed that trombonists should be sensually languorous; clarinetists, nervously
impatient; double reed instrument players, obsessional and withdrawn; brass
players, athletic and exhibitionistic.
Pianists with speed problems worked at specially constructed up-side-down
keyboards with the rationale being that finger lifting was more rate limiting than
finger placing. He said that his most hopeless cases were those whose
personalities didn’t fit their choices of instrument, too often made by what position
remained open in the high school band rather than following a personal interview.
He claimed that trombonists should be sensually languorous; clarinetists, nervously
impatient; double reed instrument players, obsessional and withdrawn; brass
players, athletic and exhibitionistic.
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As one of the team physicians of the San Diego Chargers in the years 1971-
1975, I spent several days a week in their summer training camps, on the team
plane to and from games, in the locker room and on the sidelines during games. I
was involved particularly in player drafts. Unbeknown to candidate players and
other teams, we used a system of what social scientists call unobtrusive measures
of their personalities as part of their evaluations. College football players are sent
questionnaires each year by professional teams asking about a variety of life events
and attitudes including their goals for the future. Filled out by hand, they served as
repeated measure, handwriting samples. Twenty years of them were available in
the Charger’s record room. Using 30 standard signs from the French graphology
literature and three trained raters, we evaluated the hand writing characteristics of
players, National Football League wide, who obtained and retained playing, not
reserve, positions in the League for at least three years.
After studying handwriting profiles from close to a thousand established NFL
players, and hundreds of hours of individual interviews of members of many teams,
it became clear that, athletic abilities being equal, success was more likely when the
player’s personality type fit his football position. What amounts to a series of
selective filters are operated by coaches, scouts and managers throughout the
playing careers of these players in grammar schools, high schools, universities and,
1975, I spent several days a week in their summer training camps, on the team
plane to and from games, in the locker room and on the sidelines during games. I
was involved particularly in player drafts. Unbeknown to candidate players and
other teams, we used a system of what social scientists call unobtrusive measures
of their personalities as part of their evaluations. College football players are sent
questionnaires each year by professional teams asking about a variety of life events
and attitudes including their goals for the future. Filled out by hand, they served as
repeated measure, handwriting samples. Twenty years of them were available in
the Charger’s record room. Using 30 standard signs from the French graphology
literature and three trained raters, we evaluated the hand writing characteristics of
players, National Football League wide, who obtained and retained playing, not
reserve, positions in the League for at least three years.
After studying handwriting profiles from close to a thousand established NFL
players, and hundreds of hours of individual interviews of members of many teams,
it became clear that, athletic abilities being equal, success was more likely when the
player’s personality type fit his football position. What amounts to a series of
selective filters are operated by coaches, scouts and managers throughout the
playing careers of these players in grammar schools, high schools, universities and,
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