Myths and Milestones in the History of Sport

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: Myths and Milestones in the History of Sport....Pages 1-7
The Invention of Sporting Tradition: National Myths, Imperial Pasts and the Origins of Australian Rules Football....Pages 8-31
From Evil to Expedient: The Legalization of Professionalism in English Football, 1884–85....Pages 32-56
Peacefully at Wembley Stadium on 20 April 1974: The Quiet Death of Amateur Football in England....Pages 57-79
Rough, Manly Sport and the American Way: Theodore Roosevelt and College Football, 1905....Pages 80-105
Baseball, Invented Tradition, and Nationalistic Spirit....Pages 106-121
‘Her Dainty Strength’: Suzanne Lenglen, Wimbledon and the Coming of Female Sport Celebrity....Pages 122-140
Before and After 1968: Reconsidering the Introduction of Drug Testing in the Olympic Games....Pages 141-158
The ‘Revolt of the Black Athlete’: Tommie Smith and John Carlos’s 1968 Black Power Salute Reconsidered....Pages 159-184
The D’Oliveira Affair: Cricket, ‘Race’ and Politics....Pages 185-202
The Physical Activism of Billie Jean King....Pages 203-223
John L. Sullivan: The Champion of All Champions....Pages 224-238
The ‘Packer Affair’ and the Early Marriage of Television and Sport....Pages 239-261
All these Years of Hurt: Culture, Pedagogy and ‘1966’ as a Site of National Myths....Pages 262-286
The 1960 Rome Summer Olympics: Birth of a New World?....Pages 287-303
Back Matter....Pages 304-315