Korr

Korr is a retired history professor at Missouri-St.

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"The greatest contribution sport could make to their lives," Korr says, "was to replicate the ordinariness of their former lives in a place that was meant to divorce them from the real world."

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Korr found 63 cardboard boxes that contained thousands of handwritten documents.

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The Makana Football Association began in 1966, Korr says, and played off and mostly on until the prison closed in 1991.

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Korr says the league had eight clubs with teams in each division: One club, the Manong, it's the best on the island, puts it in their constitution that there shall be no discrimination, by which they mean politics, not race.

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"The prisoners on the island believed they would be running their own country one day," sports historian Charles Korr says.

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Korr says the archives contain evidence of frequent ejections and bitter complaints about referees: "The disciplinary committee was always the most overworked."

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