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Statistics of Football League of Ireland in the 1923/1924 season.

Overview

It was contested by 10 teams, and Bohemian F.C. won the championship.

Premier Division

Pos	Club	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	Bohemian F.C.	32	16	0	2	56	20	+36
2	Shelbourne F.C.	28	13	2	3	55	21	+34
3	Jacobs F.C.	24	11	2	5	36	21	+15
4	Athlone Town A.F.C.	21	8	5	5	34	24	+10
5	St James's Gate F.C.	20	9	2	7	38	27	+11
6	Shelbourne United	19	8	3	7	30	31	-1
7	Shamrock Rovers F.C.	17	7	3	8	35	32	+3
8	Brooklyn F.C.	10	4	2	12	23	37	-14
9	Pioneers F.C.	5	2	1	15	15	60	-45
10	Midland A.F.C.	4	2	0	16	13	62	-49

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+Statistics of [[Football League of Ireland]] in the 1923/1924 season.
-{{Otheruses4|the short story by Richard Connell|the novel by Gavin Lyall|The Most Dangerous Game (Gavin Lyall novel)}}
-{{Infobox short story | <!-- See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels]] or [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Books]] -->
-| name          = The Most Dangerous Game
-| title_orig    =
-| translator    = english
-| author        = [[Richard Connell]]
-| country       = United States
-| language      = [[English language|English]]
-| series        = none
-| genre         = [[Short Story]]
-| published_in   = ''Collier's Weekly''
-| publisher     =
-| media_type    = adventure
-| pub_date  = [[January 19]], [[1924]]
-| english_pub_date =
-| preceded_by   =
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-}}
-'''"The Most Dangerous Game"''' or '''"The Hounds of Zaroff"''' is a [[short story]] by [[Richard Connell]]. It was published in ''Collier's Weekly'' on [[January 19]], [[1924]].
+==Overview==
-Widely anthologized, and the author's best-known work, "The Most Dangerous Game" features as its main character a [[big-game hunter]] from [[New York]], who becomes shipwrecked on an isolated [[island]] in the [[Caribbean]], and is hunted by a [[Russia]]n aristocrat. The story is an inversion of the big-game hunting [[safari]]s in [[Africa]] and [[South America]] that were fashionable among wealthy Americans in the 1920s.
+It was contested by 10 teams, and [[Bohemian F.C.]] won the championship.
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+==Premier Division==
-*'''Sanger Rainsford''', an accomplished and experienced hunter from New York.
+{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
-*'''General Zaroff''', a man of pre-Revolutionary Russian aristocratic background. Above middle-age. Utterly fixated on hunting.
+|Pos||Club||Pts||W||D||L||GF||GA||GD
-*'''Ivan''', Zaroff's large Cossack slave and bodyguard. He is deaf and has no tongue. Ivan is also dumb. This makes him ideal to Zaroff as it is impossible for Ivan to tell anyone of General Zaroff's murders if he somehow escapes the island.
+|-
-*'''Whitney''', Rainsford's friend who appears briefly in the introduction, wondering what it would be like if he was the hunted instead of hunter.
+|1||[[Bohemian F.C.]]||32||16||0||2||56||20||+36
+|-
-==Summary==
+|2||[[Shelbourne F.C.]]||28||13||2||3||55||21||+34
-Ship-Trap Island, that is the subject of local superstition.
+|-
+|3||[[Jacobs F.C.]]||24||11||2||5||36||21||+15
-He finds a Palatial Chateau owned by a [[Cossack]] hunter named General Zaroff and his Cossack servant Ivan.  General Zaroff had heard of Rainsford as he is a big game hunter. Zaroff has read Rainsford's book.  Over dinner, General Zaroff explains to Rainsford how he became so good at hunting that he became bored and unchallenged with it.  He then decided to live on an island where he captured shipwrecked sailors and sent them, with only food, a knife, and moccassins, into the jungle.  Three hours later, he followed them to [[human hunting|hunt them]].  If they eluded him for three days, he let them go, but he had so far managed to kill them all.
+|-
+|4||[[Athlone Town A.F.C.]]||21||8||5||5||34||24||+10
-Zaroff tells Rainsford that he would be the next person he hunted.  Rainsford runs into the forest and climbs a t
+|-
-Sanger Rainsford, a hunter in the time, and his hunting companion, Whitney, are traveling to the [[Amazon Rainforest]] to hunt the fabled big cat of that region, the [[Jaguar]].  After a discussion about how they were the hunters instead of the hunted, Rainsford hears shots, drops his pipe, and falls off of their boat while trying to retrieve it.  He washes up on an island, ree.  Zaroff finds him easily, but decides to play with him like a cat with a mouse. Next he sets a tiger trap, which kills one of Zaroff's hounds.  Finally, he set a trap with his knife that kills Ivan , but not Zaroff. As the hounds approach, Rainsford jumps off a cliff into the ocean.  Zaroff assumes he has killed himself and returns home.  Rainsford is there, having swam around the island.  Zaroff congratulates him and offers to send him home, but Rainsford decides to fight him, and says "I'm still a beast at bay,".
+|5||[[St James's Gate F.C.]]||20||9||2||7||38||27||+11
+|-
-The last sentence of the book depicts the General accepting the fight, and saying that the loser should be fed to the dogs and the victor would sleep in the master bedroom's bed. Although it has not been stated in the story, it is believed that the General was fed to his hounds because of Rainsford's last words- he had never slept in a better bed.
+|6||[[Shelbourne United]]||19||8||3||7||30||31||-1
+|-
-==Adaptations==
+|7||[[Shamrock Rovers F.C.]]||17||7||3||8||35||32||+3
-The story has been adapted for [[film]] numerous times. The most significant of these adaptations (and apparently the only one to use the original characters) was [[RKO]]'s ''[[The Most Dangerous Game (film)|The Most Dangerous Game]]'', released in [[1932 in film|1932]], having been shot (mostly at night) on sets used during the day for the "Skull Island" sequences of ''[[King Kong]]''. The movie starred [[Joel McCrea]] as Rainsford (renamed "Robert" instead of "Sanger") and [[Leslie Banks]] as Zaroff, and added two other principal characters: Eve Trowbridge ([[Fay Wray]]) and Martin Trowbridge ([[Robert Armstrong (actor)|Robert Armstrong]]), who are brother and sister (Wray and Armstrong were also starring in ''King Kong'' on the same sets during the day).
+|-
+|8||[[Brooklyn F.C. (Dublin)|Brooklyn F.C.]]||10||4||2||12||23||37||-14
-The story was also twice produced as a [[radio play]] for the series ''[[Suspense]]'', on [[23 September]] [[1943]] with [[Orson Welles]] as Zaroff and [[Keenan Wynn]] as Rainsford, and on [[1 February]] [[1945]] with frequent Welles collaborator [[Joseph Cotten]] playing Rainsford. In these productions, Rainsford narrates the story in [[retrospect]] as he waits in Zaroff's bedroom for the final confrontation.
+|-
+|9||[[Pioneers F.C.]]||5||2||1||15||15||60||-45
-A second movie adaptation, a remake of the 1932 movie, also produced by [[RKO]] was ''A Game of Death'', released in 1945. Directed by [[Robert Wise]] at the very beginning of his long and distinguished directing career, the movie was regarded poorly. Footage from the original was recycled, and one actor from the original, [[Noble Johnson]], was cast in the remake. In keeping with events of the time, ''A Game of Death'' changed Zaroff into "Erich Kreiger", a German Nazi, and was set in the aftermath of WWII. In 1956 a second official remake was made, ''[[Run for the Sun]]'', starring [[Richard Widmark]] and [[Jane Greer]].
+|-
+|10||[[Midland A.F.C.]]||4||2||0||16||13||62||-49
-Other versions include ''[[Bloodlust!]]'' (1961), ''[[The Woman Hunt]]'' (1973), ''[[Turkey Shoot]]'' (1982) and ''[[Surviving the Game]]'' (1994).<ref>Stafford, Jeff [http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=84006&category=Articles "The Most Dangerous Game" (TCM article)]</ref>
+|}
-The concept of ''The Most Dangerous Game'' has been reused in numerous works of fiction, including:
-'''Films:'''
-*''[[Surviving the Game]]''
-*''[[Hard Target (movie)|Hard Target]]''
-*''[[Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity]]''
-*''[[Gymkata]]'',
-*''[[The Beast Must Die (film)|The Beast Must Die]]''.  A deadly game to reveal and destroy a Werewolf hidden amongst trapped mansion guests
-*''[[The Pest]]''
-*''[[Zodiac (film)|Zodiac]]''
-'''Television:'''
-*the ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]]'' episode "[[The Squire of Gothos]]"
-*the ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' enemies [[Hirogen]], particularly the episode ''[[The Killing Game]]''
-*the ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' episode "[[Captive Pursuit]]"
-*the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode "[[Homecoming (Buffy episode)|Homecoming]]"
-*the ''[[The Simpsons (TV series)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "[[Treehouse of Horror XVI]]"
-*the ''[[American Dad!]]'' episode "[[The Vacation Goo]]".
-*the ''[[Gilligan's Island]]'' episode "The Hunter"
-*the ''[[Fantasy Island]]'' original pilot episode
-*the ''[[Johnny Quest]]'' episode "Shadow of the Condor"
-*the ''[[Get Smart]]'' episode "Island of the Darned"
-*the ''[[Johnny Bravo]]'' episode "Hunted!"
-*the ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'' episode "[[List of Dexter's Laboratory episodes|Dial M for Monkey: Huntor]]"
-*the ''[[Kids Next Door]]'' episode "[[List Of Codename: Kids Next Door Episodes#Operation S.A.F.A.R.I|S.A.F.A.R.I]]"
-*the ''[[The Incredible Hulk (TV series)|Incredible Hulk]]'' 3rd season episode "The Snare"
-*the ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' episode "Open Season"
-*the ''[[Supernatural (TV Series)|Supernatural]]'' episode "The Benders"
-*the ''[[Relic Hunter]]'' episode "Run Sydney Run"
-*the ''[[Lost in Space]]'' episode "Hunter's Moon"
-*the ''[[Dark Angel (TV series)|Dark Angel]]'' episode "Pollo Loco"
-*''[[Bet Your Life (TV movie)]]''
-'''Comics:'''
-*The ''[[Spider-Man]]'' villain [[Kraven the Hunter]] (Sergi Kravenoff) was inspired by Zaroff.{{Fact|date=August 2008}}
-*The tagline of [[DC Comics]]' ''[[Manhunter (comics)|Manhunter]]'' title was "He hunts the world's most dangerous game".
-Yeha.
-==Influences==
-The character of General Zaroff may have been influenced by the character of [[Prospero]] in [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[The Tempest]]''. Both characters live on isolated islands, and cause shipwrecks in order to bring unsuspecting sailors there, where they manipulate them to their own ends.
-==Zodiac Killer==
-"The Most Dangerous Game" is also said to have possibly been an inspiration to the [[Zodiac Killer]]. [[Arthur Leigh Allen]], the one time primary suspect of the notorious murders since cleared by DNA evidence, told police that he had read the story, which many thought had been referenced in one of the killer's letters.
 ==References==
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-==External links==
-*[http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/danger.html Full text at Classic Shorts]
-*[http://eserver.org/fiction/the_most_dangerous_game.html Full text at E-Server]
-*[http://tesla.liketelevision.com/liketelevision/tuner.php?channel=238&format=movie&theme=guide Watch 1932 film Most Dangerous Game]
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