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We conceptualize sport as western because...
almost every sport came out of Western Europe
Western Sports
Soccer, baseball, cricket, basketball etc.
Non
Western Sports
What did sport encourage for men?
Sport encouraged men to know how to fight
Are sports gendered?
yes
Men's Sports
Women's Sports
Different because they reflected what societies viewed of women and what they should be doing
T/F
Indigenous societies all function differently
what is a difference in Indigenous Societies?
Different people/groups and what activities they do
Who was the first democratic society?
Blackfoot
Womens sport reflected womens roles
Seminomadic
Lacrosse
Europeans came to canada
They didn't understand Indigenous people but understood their sport ideas
Western Notions of Societal Development
They are linear and the west at the front
Linear societal development theory
Says that the process is linear and as you develop you develop down the line ex.) human development (baby, toddler etc.)
Linear societal development theory pt. 2
hunter gathers
Line of Societal development ties together with
Recent western idea of progress is a universal good
Where do you want to be on the line?
Further down
British and french thoughts on Indigenous Ppl
The Columbian Exchange
Brought the arrival of diseases and food
Virgin soil epidemics
For all intents and purposes of virgin soil when a disease encounters a group of people who have never encountered that disease
Terra Nullius
Land belonging to no one
how much of the population was wiped out because of illness
low estimate 50% and high 90%
oral testimony
the way indigenous people pass down their knowledge
Disease and oral testimony
bad combo because disease strikes elders first
Colonies
disease shattered the civilization of Americas and led to the establishments of european colonies (13)
New France
Is a close copy of France which will affect sport (microcosmos)
Card playing and racing (French
Canadians)
Natural Resource Extraction
Farmers and fur traders
Bush masculinity
idea that real man can survive in the bush
Middle class man
working
Sport differentiating classes
sports became a tool to separate classes from one another
Conquest 1760
British defeated and conquered the French in North America
How did the French
Canadians view the British?
French sport
emphasizes lower class values
Who are the loyalists
English people who became middle class
anti
americanism
Order and Stability
british values underline how we celebrate and how you play the game. you have to win right or no stability or order
British Ideas of Gender Role and How They Should Participate
Full colonization of aboriginal people begins
Taverns, Garrison, and Clubs
middle class people go to ?
go to clubs
lower class people go to?
go to taverns
Upper class people go to?
host parties
Class stratify
serve expensive alcohols in the clubs and cheap alcohol in taverns
Upper class
duels
Lower class
physical fights
Hunting for sport
upper class because they were looking for the trophy size
hunting
lower class because they needed to hunt for food
Class and gender influence on sport and leisure
first clubs in Canada
Royal Montreal curling club
clubs became what?
Hubs for organized sport
Growth of Middle Class
grew because of the professionalization of various occupations
beginning of organized sport and infrastructure
industrial revolution
Sport equipment
costs drop during the industrical revolution because they can mass produce the equipment
Urbanization
people moving from rural to urban cities because of industrialization
Cities hit a Critical Mass
cities had more infrastructure for sports, and people to organize the sports
which city was the first critical mass
montreal
Railways
intercity competition
Medium
industrial revolution results in high wealth
Social Gospel Movement
protestants moved away from the church because they believed you cant wait to die to get to heaven but you need to make earth as heaven like
amateur ideal of sport
sports should be amateur because money corrupts
Montreal Amateur Association
founded in 1881 started to pass rules
Professional ideal
changed to professional because people liked winning and people liked watching people win
Professional sport
costs a lot of money
lacrosse
indigenous sport
Pontiac's Rebellion
1763
Mohawks
there were several Mohawk nations close to montreal who played a lot of lacrosse
Montreal club
1856
George Beers
father of lacrosse sets out a set of rules in the Montreal paper and everyone starts to use them
How to make men strong
Muscular Christianity
The view that vigorous physical expression was not incompatible with spiritual life. Also, there was the view that young urban boys, in particular, needed socializing to become real, not effeminate, men. Physical health achieved by way of being a muscular Christian was also a condition of a successful life.
Lacrosse grows in popularity
becomes the national summer sport
Sport took community connotations
Box Lacrosse
This is an indoor, professional version played primarily in Canada and the Northeast. professional very quickly
baseball
grew mainly in Southern Ontario because it is American
George Sleeman
Helped bring wealth in the center of Canada for baseball
Sir Alex Ferguson
Homes of baseball in Canada
Toronto and Montreal
Jackie Robinson
The first African American player in the major league of baseball. His actions helped to bring about other opportunities for African Americans.
Hockey
Started similarily to Lacrosse
Hockey started to grow with what?
Nationalism
Hockeys popularity
Became popular because it was different
Resource Boom
Mines and mining companies had lots of money so they would bring players to their towns and make teams
who played hockey?
lower class
Football Rugby
Harvard
McGill game
Spread through Ivy Schools
develops into a different sport
Grey cup was donated by?
Albert Henry George Grey
Rugby
popular in Great Britain
Soccer
Modernization
Organized sports became modernized
Modernization
Ned Hanlan
Louis Rubenstein
Louis Cyr
Barbara Ann Scott
Maurice Rocket Richard
Ben Johnson
Wayne Gretzky