HIST 3838 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Potomac River, Blackburn Olympic F.C., London Football Association
17 Dec 2016
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Lecture 4: professionals strike back: gender & class in the 19th century. New economic and political system liberalism produces a new middle class. Wealth derived through hard work, thrift, discipline. Still exclusive: middle class kept sport to themselves. Suppression of popular street sport of lower classes. Creation in elite schools of school-specific codified games. Values of discipline, order, team play, respect for rules and for ordered competition promoted through public spectacles and the public imagination. Tension between amateur ideal and professionalism continues on today. Exclusion of women relegation to private sphere forum to exhibit manliness both corporeal and gentlemanly. Wealthy women engaged in more sports than the other class women. Separation of work and leisure offered middle class men another public. Amateur sport claimed to be more moral, more socially useful. Commercialized leisure (rowing, horseracing) often appeared immoral and. Professionalism can(cid:495)t shake association with corruption and criminality. The purity of the cult of athleticism was increasingly at risk.
