Sport in HistoryPub Date : 2021-08-01DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2021.1962399
A. Carter
{"title":"Athletic philistines? Edmond Warre and his Etonian sporting masters","authors":"A. Carter","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2021.1962399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2021.1962399","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Although athleticism arguably rescued English public schools from chaos in the early nineteenth-century, concerns were soon raised that too much attention was paid to sport at the expense of learning. Subsequently, the sporting philistine became thought of as a self-perpetuating type within public schools, with masters who cared for nothing but sport producing boys who thought likewise. Edmond Warre, who taught at Eton from 1860 to 1905, and was headmaster from 1884, is often cited as the leading example of this type, building up a group of sporting masters who made Eton a dominant force in sport, but achieving little else. However, this paper argues this view does Warre and his colleagues a disservice, and that his educational achievements were downplayed because of Eton’s internal power struggles. While Eton, and other public schools, produced philistines aplenty, the best sportsmen were less likely to be among their ranks because they were increasingly motivated to study hard in order to qualify for university, and take advantage of the sporting opportunities offered there. Sporting and academic excellence were thus increasingly found in the same pupils, and sporting masters had a vested interest in providing their charges with the classical education required for Oxbridge entrance.","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17460263.2021.1962399","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59999629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sport in HistoryPub Date : 2021-07-11DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2021.1952481
G. Kohe, Jamie O. Smith, J. Hughson
{"title":"#hoops #basketballhistory @Hoops_Heritage: examining possibilities for basketball heritage within the context of higher education, critical museology and digital redirections","authors":"G. Kohe, Jamie O. Smith, J. Hughson","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2021.1952481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2021.1952481","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Until recently, investment into sport heritage in the United Kingdom has been sporadic, variable and inconsistent. This is particularly the case for sports conventionally not considered significant to popular national interest. In the UK, this classification extends to basketball. The situation is changing, and development of the nation's sport heritage is progressing. However, support for sport heritage cannot be guaranteed and continued efforts need to be individually and collectively made to advance its causes. Taking the development of the National Basketball Heritage Centre (NBHC) located at the University of Worcester in the United Kingdom as its focus, this paper interrogates how sport heritage practices and progress might align with the nexus of shifts in higher education (in which the NBHC resides), critical museology and digital redirections. This intersectional paradigm may yield exciting opportunities for sport heritage thought, production and action. Namely, by generating spaces of analysis, reforming modalities of production, and inspiring critical advocacy in representational praxis. Focusing on community identity and youth development, we envision the NBHC as a more than archival tome/ tomb, but as a site of transformative social inquiry that (virtually) connects the physical practices of the past with politics of the present and beyond.","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17460263.2021.1952481","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45038481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sport in HistoryPub Date : 2021-07-10DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2021.1947886
L. Taylor
{"title":"Confronting silences in the archive: developing sporting collections with oral histories","authors":"L. Taylor","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2021.1947886","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2021.1947886","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Neither archives nor museums are neutral. They reflect particular sets of priorities: those of the institution; the collectors and curators within them; and those of their intended audiences. In the context of sport, gender is a key influence on these priorities. Yet sporting archives are relatively silent about women's historical involvement in sport. A number of Collaborative Doctoral Partnership projects delivered through Sporting Heritage use oral history as a methodology for academic research and as an intervention in the archive, expanding collections and giving voice to otherwise under-represented groups. In this paper, I focus on issues relating to oral history in heritage settings and in the academic practice of history: the history of the methodology itself and its implications for a shared research agenda, including the extent to which oral history can – and should – be used as a method of historical recovery. In sport heritage and sport history. where men and the masculine have dominated the academic discipline and the practice of collecting, I consider the gendering of oral history, and its implications for such collections. Lastly, I reflect on the critical opportunities offered by this methodological approach, as well as the challenges.","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17460263.2021.1947886","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46921983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sport in HistoryPub Date : 2021-06-13DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2021.1898221
Derek Barnard
{"title":"Learie Constantine and race relations in Britain and the Empire","authors":"Derek Barnard","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2021.1898221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2021.1898221","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17460263.2021.1898221","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43390003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sport in HistoryPub Date : 2021-06-13DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2021.1938194
N. Riseman
{"title":"A history of transgender women in Australian Sports, 1976–2017","authors":"N. Riseman","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2021.1938194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2021.1938194","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Although debates about transgender women in sport have been prominent in recent years, there is a much longer history of transgender participation in sport. This article uses oral history interviews and media to examine Australia’s history of transgender women’s participation in sport since the late 1970s. It explores the public debates around gender, sex, the body, and ‘fair play discourse’ as expressed around specific transgender athletes. It also examines the lived experience of those transgender sportswomen and analyses how they used gender presentation to affirm their femininity. Indeed, gender presentation and transgender (in)visibility heavily influenced whether teammates, opponents, sporting associations, and the media accepted transgender athletes in their affirmed gender. The presence of transgender women in sport consistently exposed anxieties around gender, sex, and the body because they exposed rigid understandings of gender binarism. Examining the long history of transgender women in Australian sport reveals how longstanding debates have played out in a variety of settings, with transgender athletes regularly searching for ways to affirm their gender and navigate sporting communities.","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17460263.2021.1938194","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47391361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sport in HistoryPub Date : 2021-05-28DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2021.1934096
Yohann Fortune
{"title":"Emil Zatopek in the pantheon of long-distance running: the creation of a sporting myth","authors":"Yohann Fortune","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2021.1934096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2021.1934096","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Like numerous sportspeople, Emil Zatopek (1922-2000) is one of those figures who, through their achievements and dramatic life trajectories, succeed in entering the collective memory as heroes whose names are passed down through the generations. At the turn of the 1940s-1950s, his performances were widely hailed in the sports press when he became famous at the Helsinki Olympic Games (1952) by winning three gold medals, and the man himself gave rise to popular fervour and identification. In the context of the Cold War, propaganda was quick to focus on him, triggering a form of heroisation which would lead, over time, to transfiguring the champion and creating the myth that is still alive today. Based on press articles, biographies, documentaries and propaganda works, as well as on advertisements, novels, comic books and other cultural material related to Emil Zatopek from the 1950s to the present day, this article invites reflection upon the rewriting processes inherent in the creation of the sporting myth and aims to grasp any of its possible invariants. It thus explains how the sportsperson goes successively from the status of champion to that of hero and then myth, and defines the criteria which correspond to each status.","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17460263.2021.1934096","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41556037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sport in HistoryPub Date : 2021-05-25DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2021.1924848
Gerardo Rebanal Martínez
{"title":"Golf in St Andrews, the critical years, c. 1880-1914","authors":"Gerardo Rebanal Martínez","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2021.1924848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2021.1924848","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT As a consequence of its historic role in the world of golf St Andrews had been the object of close scrutiny from historians and golf writers alike. Both have largely centred their attention on the history of golf clubs -such as the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews [later referred to as R&A]- or on great characters, like Thomas Morris, a true giant of the game. However, less sparkling ingredients -for example the activities of locals, or visitors, often not affiliated to any particular golf club, have been a kind of historiographic poor relation. This article is not focused on material or biographical aspects, but instead on social and structural features. If historians have argued whether golf had evolved on a more unrestrained basis in Scotland than in England, they usually agree in considering St Andrews a kind of unrestricted golfing republic. The chosen years were critical because the place called The Links, where golf at St Andrews had always been played, became a hotly disputed property, coveted by the R&A and the Town Council. In the end they managed to consolidate peace agreements, which, with subsequent adjustments, have defined what golf in St Andrews is today.","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17460263.2021.1924848","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44214502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sport in HistoryPub Date : 2021-05-21DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2021.1927810
Jörg Krieger, Austin Duckworth
{"title":"Annexation or fertile inclusion? The origins of handball’s international organisational structures","authors":"Jörg Krieger, Austin Duckworth","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2021.1927810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2021.1927810","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Sport scholars have increasingly explored the institutional history of international governing bodies of sport in recent years. Some sports, however, have received little attention. Handball is one of them. Despite handball’s modern impact and its global governing body, relatively little is known about the history of its governing body, the International Handball Federation (IHF) and the attempts to govern handball internationally. The following article traces the history of the first governing body of handball, the International Amateur Handball Federation (IAHF). Dissolved following the Second World War, the story of the IAHF has previously received scant attention from international scholars. By tracing the history of the IAHF, this article argues that sport administrators, including those within Nazi Germany, manipulated the IAHF to support their personal goals.","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17460263.2021.1927810","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45213979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sport in HistoryPub Date : 2021-05-20DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2021.1931420
A. Mcdougall
{"title":"‘This heart-rending and world-shattering news’: gender, emotion, and transnationalism in the Bill Shankly retirement letters","authors":"A. Mcdougall","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2021.1931420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2021.1931420","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In July 1974, Bill Shankly, the charismatic manager of Liverpool FC, surprised the football world by announcing his retirement. During fifteen years in charge, Shankly revolutionised LFC, transforming a second-tier outfit into one of Europe's best teams. His impact on the city of Liverpool was equally profound. At times in the 1960s, Shankly's popularity eclipsed even that of the Beatles. His retirement, wrote one supporter, felt like ‘the end of the world’. It triggered a public outpouring of grief, well wishes, and reminiscences. Based on previously unpublished material from the Shankly Family Archive, this essay examines the history, or histories, of the correspondence sent to Bill Shankly in the summer of 1974. Using three approaches – gender history, the history of emotions, and transnational history – it highlights under-explored aspects of football's rootedness in everyday life: female fandom, male sentimentality, and the first stirrings of Liverpool's international popularity. In Bill Shankly's football republic, collective identity was rooted in civic pride, but crossed age, class, gender, and national lines.","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17460263.2021.1931420","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46847297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sport in HistoryPub Date : 2021-05-15DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2021.1919189
Matthew L. Mcdowell
{"title":"‘Frae Land o’ Lakes to land o’ Cakes’: curling, Scotland, Sweden, and historical undercurrents","authors":"Matthew L. Mcdowell","doi":"10.1080/17460263.2021.1919189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2021.1919189","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article uses curling to explore the relationship between Scotland and Sweden during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A long-term formal and (after the Union of 1707) informal relationship existed between the nations, particularly with regard to the Thirty Years’ War and Jacobitism, both of which established a Scottish presence in Gothenburg. Curling entered Sweden through this pipeline in the early- to mid-nineteenth century, with Sweden's first known club, Bohuslän Curling Club (Bohuslänska Curlingklubben), formed at Uddevalla in 1852 by the Thorburn-Macfie family and associates; the family ran an industrial concern selling oats for horses powering London's expanding transport network. Curling remained confined to Uddevalla until the first Nordic Games (Nordiska Spelen) in 1901, whereby the sport became part of a programme emphasising elite ideas of sport. Later iterations of the Games would feature Scottish curlers. In the 1920s and 1930s, semi-regular trips were also arranged between Scotland and Sweden by the Royal Caledonian Curling Club (RCCC) and the Swedish Curling Union (Svensk Curlingförbundet); here, while the game was placed within a contemporary royalist, martial, and racial context by RCCC and public officials, reference points recalled the pre-Union relationship between the two nations as pertained to the Thirty Years’ War.","PeriodicalId":44984,"journal":{"name":"Sport in History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17460263.2021.1919189","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48602122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}