The rise of American high school sports and the search for control, 1880-1930

The rise of American high school sports and the search for control, 1880-1930 / Robert Pruter.

Nearly half of all American high school students participate on sports teams. With a total of 7.6 million participants, this makes the high school sports program in America the largest organized sports program in the world. This book traces the history of high school sports in America from the stude...

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Main Author: Pruter, Robert, 1944-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press, 2013
Edition:First edition.
Series:Sports and entertainment.
Subjects:
School sports > Social aspects > United States.
School sports > United States > History.
GAMES > Gambling > Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Business Aspects.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION > History.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Reference.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Sports.
School sports
School sports > Social aspects
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Student initiative and adult alliances, 1880-1900. Baseball and football pioneer high school sports ; The rise of schoolboy track and tennis ; The physical education movement and the campaign for control
  • Establishment of institutional control, 1900-1920. Educators impose institutional control ; Student resistance to control and reform ; Winter indoor sports fill the void ; New outdoor sports advance the educational mission ; The new athletic girl and interscholastic sports
  • Triumph of national governance, 1920-1930. Interscholastics and the golden age of sports ; Creation of military sports in the secondary schools ; The private and Catholic schools' parallel world of interscholastic sports ; Girls' interscholastic sports and the exuberance to compete ; The separate and unequal world of African American interscholastic sports ; New national governance and the triumph of the state high school associations.

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