Fit for America (eBook)

Major John L. Griffith and the quest for Athletics and Fitness

Matthew Lindaman (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
Syracuse University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8156-5435-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Fit for America is at once an intellectual biography of Major John L. Griffith, one of the preeminent intercollegiate athletics administrators of the twenti­eth century, and an in-depth look at how athletics shaped national military preparedness in a time of war and anticommunist sentiment.

Lindaman traces Griffith’s forty-year career, one that spanned both world wars and included his appointment as the first Big Ten commissioner from 1922 until 1945. Griffith also served as NCAA president in the 1930s and later became the secretary-treasurer during World War II. Throughout his career, he worked tirelessly to advance the role and importance of collegiate sports on a regional and national level. In an era of heightened fears of com­munism, Griffith saw intercollegiate athletics as a way to prepare young men to become fit, disciplined military recruits. Griffith also founded his own publi­cation, the Athletic Journal, in 1922 in which he published opinion pieces and solicited the opinions of other leading coaches and administrators nationwide. Through these pages, Lindaman explores not only Griffith’s philosophy but also the emergence of a coaching and athletic administration network. Draw­ing on voluminous primary source material and the many writings Griffith left behind, Fit for America brings long-overdue attention to a figure who was in­strumental in shaping the world of American intercollegiate sports.

Autor

Matthew Lindaman is a professor in the Department of History at Winona State University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.6.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Path to Open
• Reihe/Serie: Sports and Entertainment
• Reihe/Serie: Sports and Entertainment
• Zusatzinfo: 18 black and white
• Verlagsort: Syracuse
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: alumni influence • Amateurism • American History • American ideals • athletic administration • athletic directors • athletic facilities • athletic governance • athletic history • athletic journal • athletic philosophy • athletic reform • athletic scholarships • Big Ten • Big Ten Conference • Biography • Carnegie Report • Character development • Coaching • collegiate football • communism • Competitive Sports • Drake Relays • faculty representatives • Fitness • institutional control • Intercollegiate Athletics • John L. Griffith • military training • National Collegiate Athletic Association • national defense • national preparedness • NCAA • New Deal • North Central Association • Physical Education • physical fitness programs • Professionalism • Radio broadcasts • recruiting scandals • Socialism • Sports History • sportsmanship • stadium construction • Subsidization • The Athletic Journal • World War I • World War II
• ISBN-10: 0-8156-5435-9 / 0815654359
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-5435-3 / 9780815654353