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263f Week 1

• This material is posted to assist you by
  providing examples used in class re Week One
  introductory material
• The material on Ancient Olympic Games is more
  detailed than what will be customary in order to
  stay on course schedule

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If sports editors wrote historical headlines
Henry 8th Drops 5th in a Row
Greek Quick-Opener Stuns Trojans
Freud Goes Deep
Lions Hungry for Victory as Xtian Clash Nears
Lindbergh Flies Out
Marconi Takes to Air Finds Open Receiver
Michelangelo Credits Good Sistine Showing To
Strong Backstroke
Joan of Arc Favoured In French Stake Race
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History Sport history

• What is it that makes or marks history ?
• What is history ?
• What do you know about Cdn history and/or Cdn
  sport history
• What makes good history

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Observations by Mr Dooley

• I know history isnt true Hinnessy, cause it
  aint like what I see every day in Halstead
  Street. If a man comes along with a history for
  Greece or Rome thatll show me the people
  fightin, getting drunk, makin love, getting
  married, owin the grocery man, and bein without
  hard coal, Ill believe there was a Greece or
  Rome but not before. History is a post mortem
  examination. It tells you what a country died
  for. But Id like to know what a country lived
  for! Caroline Ware, The Cultural
  Approach to History

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What is history ?

• Chron study of recorded time ?
• Study of great people ?
• Study of politics over time ?
• The interaction of character with circumstances
  over time ?
• All of the above ? Others ?

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What is history ?

• History is historiography

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What is history ?

• History is historiography
• History is either
• The events of the past
• The record of the past

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Understanding History

• only a part of what was observed in the past
  was remembered by those who observed it only a
  part of what was remembered was recorded only a
  part of what was recorded has survived only a
  part of what has survived has come to the
  historians attention only a part of what has
  come to their attention is credible only a part
  of what is credible has been grasped or can be
  expounded or narrated by the historian
  Louis Gottschalk

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What is history ?

• Point is we DO history
• Research gtgt Analysis gtgt Writing
• History is NOT the past Historian tries to
  reconstruct the past often, she merely creates
  it
• Consider the Donnellys story The Black
  Donnellys - Kelly The Donnellys Must Die -
  Miller

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Orlo Millers The Donnellys Must Die 1962
1954
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http//www.donnellys.com/Photos.html
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The Process of DOING history schema
H i s t o r i a n d o i n g h i s t o r y
Actors Real sit
Actors interp of situation
Action
Intended Untd cons
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Time dimensions

• Time as linear horiz or descriptive
  analysis/history ex evol of lacr 67-14
• Time as vertical analytical approach cuts into
  time ex anal of lacr in 1867

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• we need to ask what interests and coalitions of
  interests gave specific shape to the development
  of modern sport. We need to ask how the
  development of sport has affected the lives of
  men and women in different parts of Canada. We
  need finally to ask how contemporary sport in
  Canada is both influenced by and an influence on
  developments in other Canadian Institutions.

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Classical Greece and the National Athletic
Festivals

• Ancient Olympics founded sometime in 8th C BCE
• Most prominent of some 1300 such Gr festivals
• Popular bec Grks delighted in physical excellence
  agonistic ideal
• Not just games, but cultural (music, poetry, art)
  religious celebrations

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Ancient Olympic Games

• 776 BCE to 393 ACE, nearly 12 centuries as quad
  festival
• Little variance to events Ch races foot races
  discus, javelin, wr, boxing
• Stade race of 200 yds
• Sacred grounds of Olympia olive wreath ideal
• Women banned

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Ancient Olympic Games the How

• Fairness was critical value
• Race starts w trumpet then husplex (56)
• Longer than stade, had turning post always went
  counter-clockwise
• Pentathlon and halteres 55 feet amentum w
  javelin boxing and himantes

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Modern sport roots in Ancient Greece

• Our sporting inheritance with - types of
  events - concepts of discipline, training,
  beauty, excellence, struggle -
  celebrations - values amateurism,
  character
• Festivals became more professionalized by 4th C
  ACE

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Roman Sport

• 2 eras here Republican Rome of 2nd century BCE
  to just before birth of Christ will not deal
  with its sport
• Roman Empire dominated Medit world for some 4
  centuries 100 mill pop
• Rome w aqueducts, paved roads, parks, libraries
  all w 1.5 mill in 17 km circumference apt
  living, smelly very prosperous

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Roman Sport

• Leisure time cannot be overemph
• 159 public holidays/year at height of Empire 93
  of these devoted to Games ludi at public
  expense
• Chariot racing in Circus Maximus Gladatorial
  combats wild beast fights naval battles
  athletic contests

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Decline of Roman Sport

• Economic decline by 400 ACE
• Growing Xtian fanaticism ag body
• Plagues, earthquakes, famine
• Barbarian invasions
• Contribs to Modern sport ? prof spectatorship
  gambling excesses and win emphasis

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Medieval and Renaissance Sport

• decline of civiliz during M-Ages
• Warring elite, poverty of masses
• Feudal system
• Asceticism of Xtian church
• Chivalry w tournaments jousts as lavish
  displays of medieval pageantry
• Renaiss or re-birth of Civiliz around 14th C w
  scientific discoveries golf, tennis, archery,
  animal-baiting but no organization

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Significance of Ancient to Medieval Sport to
Modern Cdn Sport

• Upper class
• Men, fem exclusion
• Sports of war
• Codes of behaviour re amateurism, morality,
  Chivalry
• Beauty, excellence
• Spectacle
• organization

• Festivals pageantry
• Professionalism
• Entertainment
• Sport seldom for its own sake
• Religious conservatism
• Impulse to sport-play is timeless

See class handout re you doing these
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What brought sport back to western World ?

• The British public school
• Eton, Chester, Harrow, Rugby
• Early 19th C and Dr Thomas Arnold at Rugby 6th
  form, prefects, fagging, houses organiz of of
  pastimes Tom Browns School-days 57
• Xtian gentleman ideal loyalty, team spirit,
  courage
• Sport by house football, cricket, boxing, hare
  hounds
• Values fair play organiz team before indiv
  Its not cricket B of Waterloo wonEton