The rise of American high school sports and the search for control, 1880-1930 /
"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. Robert Pruter's work traces the history of high school sports in...
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Syracuse, N.Y. :
Syracuse University Press,
2013
Syracuse, NY : 2013 Syracuse, New York : 2013 |
| Edition: | First edition |
| Series: | Sports and entertainment
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Table of Contents:
- Part One. 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
- Part Two. 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
- Part Three. 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
- Part One. 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
- Part Two. 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
- Part Three. 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