Zusammenfassung der Ressource
History of Sport
- Characteristics of Popular Recreation
- Occassional - not much free time
- Violent - reflected society
- Wagering
- Rural
- Local - limited transport
- Courtly (rich)/ popular (poor)
- Two class feudal system
- Occupational - developed from jobs
- Simple, unwritten rules - no literacy
- Natural - low tech
- How sport changed during dramatically during the 19th century
- pre-1850 - participation declined
- Mass migration to cities
- less time and public holidays
- less space
- 12 hour days
- poverty
- poor health
- loss of rights - animal sports banned
- lack of acceptance of violent sport
- post-1850 - involvement increased
- more time
- improved hygiene
- increased spectatorship
- new middle class
- public school boys developed rules for
sports at school and spread them when
they went to university
- better transport
- lower cost
- church approved of new non-violent sports
- athleticism
- physical endeavour with moral integrity
- factory teams
- Characteristics of rational recreation
- Regular/frequent - more free time
- Respectable - influenced by middle class
- codified/NGBs - business skills of middle classes
- Regional/ national/ international - better transport
- Played in purpose built facilities
- fair play
- control of gambling -
development of police force
- urban/suburban -
migation to cities
- elitist - segregation of classes