coaches created the NCAA tournament in 1939 to promote “fairness, safety, and well-being of the participating students” (p. 97) with proceeds to be distributed back to the schools. Fittingly, Carlson closes Making March Madness with the aforementioned point-shaving scandal of 1951. Beyond decimating
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Making March Madness: The Early Years of the NCAA, NIT, and College Basketball Championships, 1922-1951
Adam J. Criblez
Nature Games: Traditional Indigenous Games and Environmental Stewardship in Oceania
Tom Fabian, Gary Osmond, and Murray G. Phillips
in harmony with one’s environment is a romanticized ideal, it is the guiding ethos of sustainability ethics. In an essay about Māori economies of well-being, Māori woman and sustainability scholar Rachel Wolfgramm, and her colleagues, explained that “sustainable societies flourish over generations
Nature Sport and Environmental History: Adulation or Alteration of Nature?
PearlAnn Reichwein, Pierre-Olaf Schut, and Grégory Quin
sustainability around the world. The turn toward nature sport and play for human health and well-being, especially in times of strife, urban pollution, and environmental crisis, has been a common historical trajectory in many cultures worldwide in recent centuries, as the articles in this issue reveal. For
International Federations and National Governing Bodies: The Historical Development of Institutional Policies in Response to Challenging Issues in Sport
Jörg Krieger, Lindsay Parks Pieper, and Ian Ritchie
also influenced decisions in women’s gymnastics, as did concerns about finances and participant well-being. Georgia Cervin explores the history of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG)’s policies in regard to gender, economics, and athlete welfare. She argues that on all three fronts, the FIG
Becoming a Leading Player in Protecting the Mountain Environment: The Union Internationale des Associations d’Alpinisme and the Path to the 1982 Kathmandu Declaration
Philippe Vonnard
essential role in human well-being and health. The Kathmandu Declaration, drawn up in 1982 by an international symposium held in Nepal to mark the UIAA’s fiftieth anniversary, was an important landmark in this process. Nevertheless, the UIAA’s actions do not appear to have made much of an impression on
Building the Transnational “Body Beautiful”—K.V. Iyer and the Circulation of Bodybuilding Practices between India and the United States
Aishwarya Ramachandran and Conor Heffernan
contemporaries in the United States, was around the detrimental effects of modernity on health and well-being. “The civilized man, through soft living, indulgence and lack of sufficient physical movement, really reduces the tone of his body and health too far below the standard,” Iyer claimed; “the thing is to
“An Occupational Hazard”: Former Elite Male Professional Players’ Experiences of On-Field Violence in Australian Football (1970 to 1995)
John H. Kerr
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Too Rough for Bare Heads: The Adoption of Helmets and Masks in North American Ice Hockey, 1959–79
Kathleen E. Bachynski
particularly passionate individuals, from Jacques Plante to Tom Pashby, were essential by modeling the kinds of behaviors and making the kinds of arguments that valued player safety and well-being. The history of the adoption of helmets and masks in North American ice hockey suggests that policies from
The Transformation of Taiwanese Women’s Physical Education in Schools During the Japanese Colonial Period (1895–1945)
Hsiang-Pin Chin and Ping-Chao Lee
.” The reasoning that colonial authorities offered for the promotion of health and personal well-being was a veil for imperial and national resource objectives; these PE programs represented yet another yoke placed on Taiwanese women. Therefore, how to shape the bodies of Taiwanese women, distanced from
“Star Maker”: George Powles, McClymonds High School, and the Youth of West Oakland
David K. Wiggins
into a lasting triumph by tackling a life in coaching with the same drive, energy, and determination that he exhibited in his quest to play at the highest level of America’s National Pastime. He did so with the health and well-being of his athletes always uppermost in his mind. Ultimately, the middle
