about the developmental history of the Big Ten. However, the lack of other institutional materials leads me to question how different, if at all, was the information potentially collected at those universities? Did it contrast or confirm the information from the Big Ten offices and that offered by
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Creating the Big Ten: Courage, Corruption, and Commercialization
Chad Seifried
The Significance of Baseball Games Between South Korean Teams and US Army Teams Shortly After World War II
Moongi Cho
soldiers in Korea shortly after World War II. The social recognition, developmental aspects, functions, nature and significance of baseball games during that period were investigated based on primary historical data from various sources (newspapers, magazines, newsletters and bulletins). This study began
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protected area systems in Alberta. Seungho Woo is a research fellow at the Department of Physical Education at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, South Korea. His research interest focuses mainly on the historical developmental process of Korean baseball. He serves as a director of Korean Society for History
“Californian ‘Start-’Em-Young’ System”: The Golden State and US Swimming, 1954–1964
Matthew R. Hodler and Maureen Smith
’s earliest developmental successes came to fruition at two meets in 1959. First was the women’s national championships in Redding, California, where the “United States girl swimmers served notice to the rest of the world” in setting four world records and eleven national marks. California Age Group swimmers
Volleygate: A History of Scandal in the Largest International Sport Federation
Tom Fabian
professionalization and bureaucratization. The key difference in the developmental trajectories of the two sports is that basketball became a professional sport in the United States and its global brand was furthered by the popularity and appeal of the National Basketball Association. 8 Although volleyball has
Zainichi Koreans Invited to Home Base: Building Ethnic Identity and Its Impact on the Development of Korean Baseball (1956–70)
Seungho Woo, Hwan Son, and Karam Lee
, “Baseball and the Quest for National Dignity in Meiji Japan,” American Historical Review 85, no. 3 (1980): 511–534; Jung-Chel Choi, “A Study on the Developmental Process of the Korean Baseball Games: From 1905 to 1945,” (master’s thesis, Seoul National University of Education, 1996); Gerald Gems
Tracing the Pioneers: Ballroom Dance Instructors and “Taxi-dance Girls” in Modern Chinese Leisure Sports
Zeng Guang Duan, Ying He, and Jian Gang Qiu
discipline that needed diligent study, which gave rise to a large number of dance schools and professional instructors in Shanghai.” 21 Additionally, Modern Chinese ballroom dance instructors have demonstrated an evolution and developmental trend from “westernization” to “localization.” First, comparing the
“I Live With and By Nature”: Swedish Alpine Skiers Reflect on Professional and Lifestyle Skiing, Nature, and Snow, 1964–2023
Marie Larneby
mountain regions, and many lifts were built in the 1980s and 1990s 37 ; it is within this developmental period that the ten skiers started skiing and started as instructors or coaches. Moreover, it was during the late 1960s and early 1970s that environmental issues were put on political agendas. In 1972
Twice Invisible, Twice Clandestine. Football and Lesbianism in Spain During the Years of Democratic Transition (1970–1982)
Dolors Ribalta Alcalde and Xavier Pujadas
the context of international openness in a Spain now characterized by developmentalism, tourism, and urban growth. In the 1960s and 1970s, attorneys including Antonio Sabater Tomás and Luis Vivas Marzal argued that the problem of homosexuality could not be eradicated with existing legal tools, given
Baylor University’s Football Stadia: Life Before McLane Stadium
Chad Seifried, Tiffany E. Demiris, and Jeffrey Petersen
football and its stadia may potentially offer new perspectives on the history of Baylor. Therefore, the present study offers a descriptive developmental history of the football grounds at Baylor from 1894 to the construction of McLane Stadium in 2014. Like other scholarships that examined the emergence and