Muscle and Manliness: The Rise of Sport in American Boarding Schools
"Axel Bundgaard had produced a meaningful work on the important but little-told history of interschool athletics, exploring the introduction and nature of sport in the controlled environment of the American boarding school." "Using archival material from several eastern boarding schools founded in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Bundgaard traces this process from its beginnings in the muscular Christianity prevailing in the boarding schools of Victorian England - most notably Rugby....
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Advocates of physical education routinely make claims about its positive character building qualities. Examining the evolution of the connection of sport with moral values of "manliness," Bundgaard (emeritus, physical education, St. Olaf College) investigates physical education discourse at New England and mid-Atlantic private boarding schools, he traces the English origins of the association of sport with character and their transport across the Atlantic, the development of gymnasia, the role of school papers in fostering sports, sport and moral education at the Groton School from its founding in the 1880s, and styles of faculty leadership in the evolution of sport and athletics. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
1In the beginning : Puritan values, private schools, and play12Tom Brown at home and abroad183The name of the game : organize!384Postwar surge : more schools, sports, and schedules525Muscle and manliness indoors846Scribes and pundits987Morality and sport : Groton's Endicott Peabody1118Ringers and other skulduggery1409Faculty leadership : from permissive observer to vocal advocate15210Finally, athletics for all16411An ending and a new beginning191
