How the game was played : essays in sports history
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How the game was played : essays in sports history
Edward Everett Root, 2016
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This work by the award-winning sports historian goes beyond scores and results to present a unique view of Britain's sporting past. This involves looking at the dark side of sport, the use of alcohol as a performance enhancing drug, the violence of football hooligans before the First World War, the tribulations of weight-watching jockeys, and the employment of children as young a seven as golf caddies. On the more positive side the ground-breaking contribution of the Glasgow Charity Cup in using football as a vehicle for charitable fund raising is highlighted as is the pioneering role of women in golf - a sport in which they have often been considered subordinate to men - and the courage shown by amateur jump jockeys in piloting their mounts over fences and hurdles.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Introduction. Practising Sports History: Analysing the Game: Evidence and Knowledge in Sports History. Sporting Conduct: Sports Crowd Disorder in Britain 1870-1914: Causes and Controls
- Bulimic Practices and Alcohol Consumption: Performance Enabling and Performance Enhancing Mechanisms in Nineteenth-Century British Sport
- 'Remembering Us Year After Year': The Glasgow Charity Cup 1876-1966. Field Sports: Sports Without Rules: Hunting, Shooting and Fishing in Edwardian
- Captains Courageous: the Gentleman Rider in British Horseracing 1866-1914. Horseracing: Reduced Horsepower: The Jockey Club and the Regulation of British Horseracing
- A Modern Sport? 'From Ritual to Record' in British Horseracing (with Joyce Kay)
- Golf: Women to the Fore: Accommodation and Resistance at the British Golf Club before 1914
- The Rough and the Fairway: Processes and Problems in Ryder Cup Team Selection 1927-2006
- Child Work or Child Labour? The Caddie Question in Edwardian Golf. Sporting Heritage: Facts and Artefacts: Sports Museums and Sports Historians
- Taking a Gamble or a Racing Certainty: Sports Museums and Public Sports History.
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