The early development of football : contemporary debates / edited by Graham Curry.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Curry, Graham, editor.

Series:

Routledge research in sports history.

Routledge research in sports history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soccer--History.

Soccer.

Soccer--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

This fascinating collection brings together leading football historians and sociologists from the UK, Germany, the USA and Australia to offer fresh perspectives on the early development of football (soccer), not only illuminating our understanding of the early history of the world's most popular sport, but also the importance of sport in our broader social and cultural history. The book presents new evidence and fresh perspectiveswhich will inform the robust debate that has been raging about the origins and early development of football. It addresses key issues at the centre of this debate, including the influence of former English public schoolboys, the development of football subcultures outside of prestige educational institutions, and the intersection and divergence of the various football codes around the world. The Early Development of Football is an important resource for anyone working in the history of football or sports in general, football studies or the sociology of sport. It is also a useful read for those interested in sport management and the development of sports organisations and rules.

Contents:

Introduction

Football outside the schools in the United States before codification

The beginnings of football in Germany in the light of contemporary sources

Researching the origins and early history of the football codes : a view from Down-Under

The beginnings of soccer in Melbourne : the eternal recurrence of the game

The emergence of club football in "The Potteries" : bottle kilns for goalposts

A review of early football in Lincolnshire : county town, market towns and grammar schools

English handball sports in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Football grows far and wide in the north east : development to 1890 and the creation of the Northern League

Early football in and around Shrewsbury : soccer in the sticks

Football in Winchester, in town and college, before 1884 : 'very fast and interesting to look on at.'

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-000-02132-7

0-429-29222-8

9780429292224

OCLC:

1103917860