The Rise of American High School Sports and the Search For Control, 1880-1930
by Robert Pruter
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Pub Date Jul 19 2013 | Archive Date Jul 10 2013
Description
Nearly half of all American high school students participate in sports teams. With a total of 7.6 million participants as of 2008, this makes the high school sports program in America the largest organized sports program in the world. Pruter’s work traces the history of high school sports from the student-led athletic clubs of the 1800s through to the establishment of educator control of high school sports under a national federation by the 1930s. Pruter’s research serves not only to highlight this rich history but also to provide new perspectives on how high school sports became the arena by which Americans fought for some of the most contentious issues in society, such as race, immigration and Americanization, gender roles, religious conflict, the role of the military in democracy, and the commercial exploitation of our youth.
Robert Pruter is the author of Chicago Soul and Doowop: The Chicago Scene. He is the government documents and reference librarian at Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois.
Advance Praise
"This book represents a prodigious effort, the most comprehensive treatment of interscholastic sport to date, marked by meticulous and rigorous research based on a wealth of primary sources. It richly details the transition from student organized sport to extracurricular activities under the auspices of faculty and school administrators as a means of achieving social control and to facilitate character building qualities, which often conflicted with actual practices. It is a much needed work that covers gender, class, race, and religious issues and fills a gap in the historical literature. It should be essential reading for educational and sport historians, and of interest to the general public as well." Gerald R. Gems, past president of the North American Society for Sport History
“American high school athletics, diverse and complex by their very nature, emerged during the late nineteenth century, then grew and spread across the nation, becoming a prominent American institution by the eve of the Great Depression. Chicago and the Rise of American High School Sports, 1880-1930 is a cogent, comprehensive analysis of high school athletics during their formative period. Through diligent research, Pruter has pieced together variegated components of high school athletics, bringing order and continuity to that disparate topic, and in so doing, he has elicited the value of high school athletics for American culture.” Tom Jable, professor emeritus of exercise movement sciences at William Paterson University, his is a co-editor of Introduction to Physical Education and Sport: Foundations and Trends published by Brooks Cole.
“For over a century, public and parochial school athletics were the main talent feeder for America’s sport industry. And yet they lacked a comprehensive history. Robert Pruter fills a big part of that gap with his look at the expansion and the controversies in school sports from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression. “ Stephen Hardy, University of New Hampshire
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780815633143 |
| PRICE | $49.95 (USD) |
