Amateurism in British Sport

The ideal of the amateur competitor, playing the game for love and, unlike the professional, totally untainted by commerce, has become embedded in many accounts of the development of modern sport. It has proved influential not least because it has underpinned a pervasive impression of professionalism - and all that came with it - as a betrayal of i

Series Editors' Foreword, Introduction, 1. The Amateur Body and the Middle-class Man: Work, Health and Style in Victorian Britain, 2. Captains Courageous: Gentlemen Riders in British Horse Racing, 1866-1914, 3. The Ambiguities of Amateurism: English Rugby Union in the Edwardian Era, 4. Revenge of the Crouch End Vampires: The AFA, the FA and English Football's 'Great Split', 1907-14, 5. 'The Really Good Professional Captain Has Never Been Seen!': Perceptions of the Amateur/Professional Divide in County Cricket, 1900-39, 6. The Amateur Ideal and British Sports Diplomacy, 1900-1945, 7. Amateurism, Sport and the Left: Amateurism for All Versus Amateur Elitism, 8. Amateurism, Capital and Roger Bannister, 9. 'I'll Run Him': Alf Tupper, Social Class and British Amateurism, 10. 'Base Mechanic Arms'? British Rowing, Some Ducks and the Shifting Politics of Amateurism, Index