The making of the Man: Australian public schoolboy sporting violence 1850-1914

Crotty, Martin

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“…In this period, a young man's willingness to risk his health during organized games was a marker of his virility and masculinity, and an indication that he might be willing to further endanger himself in the service of his country, empire, and the white race (Crotty, 2003). The relationship between brain injuries, sport, and gender in Australian history warrants a deeper analysis than can be provided here.…”

Section: A New Century: 1901 and 1906mentioning

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“‘The Tragedy of the Punch Drunk': Reading Concussion in Australian Sporting Newspapers, 1843–1954”

Townsend

2021

Front. Sports Act. Living

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Australian cultural attitudes toward sports related concussion (SRC) are understudied. Australia has a long history of valorising combat, collision, and contact sports, in which SRC is a common occurrence. It is therefore vital to understand how sociocultural and historical factors shape Australian attitudes toward SRC, in order to more critically evaluate the decisions made by athletes, parents, coaches, and others with regards to risk and brain injury in sport. This paper analyzed historical representations of SRC in Australian sporting newspapers between 1803 and 1954. Using distant reading, this analysis revealed four distinct periods of increased press discourse about “concussion,” which were subject to interrogation via close reading. Close reading revealed that concussion was being reported in the Australian sporting press as early as 1859. Further analysis revealed critical and scientifically informed discussions about the delayed effects of concussion in 1901, systemic critiques of sporting organizations' response to concussion in 1906, and evidence of a limited concussion crisis in Australian boxing during the early 1930s. The findings of this research show that concussion was not only being reported in Australian newspapers throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries but it was subject to critical and informed commentary that has striking similarities with current debates about SRC. Despite this, widespread systematic changes to Australian sport did not occur until recently. This raises important questions about the political and institutional factors that prevented a major concussion crisis from developing in Australia during the early twentieth century, and prompts us to further consider the distinguishing features that facilitated the development of the current crisis.

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Section: A New Century: 1901 and 1906mentioning

confidence: 86%

“‘The Tragedy of the Punch Drunk': Reading Concussion in Australian Sporting Newspapers, 1843–1954”

Townsend

2021

Front. Sports Act. Living

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“…Indeed, as authors such as Adair et a!. (1998), Crosset (1990) and Crotty (1998) show, many of the organised and codified sports now played in western countries (soccer, rugby, baseball, cricket) were originally developed as antidotes to perceived 'effeminacy' and weakness amongst ruling class boys and men, An important part of this 'sport for manliness' discourse was the belief that the country was an inherently healthy place for people to live and, consequently, that in order to remain as physically and mentally robust as their provincial brothers, city males needed the 'rough and tumble' that sport provided, An almost identical discourse was at play around the turn of the 20 th century when the men who made up the sporting teams in England's colonies, notably South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, first began to beat the 'mother country' at 'her' own games (Adair et ot.. 1998;Nauright, 1996;Philllps, 1984Philllps, , 1996. Defeat came as such a shock to the English that many commentators concluded that rugged, outdoor, frontier life had bred men of exuberant athleticism and superior strength, They contrasted this with industrialising England where, it was argued, middle class men had grown weak on the comforts and confinement of overly-civilised urban living.…”

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Sport, physical education and country towns

Gard

2001

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Is it possible for culture to be anything other than diverse? As with 'hybridity', a term so much in vogue in contemporary social science, 'cultural diversity' seems mildly tautological. Applied either to communities of people or individual identities, 'hybrldiry' assumes a pre-existing purity which, certainly in western countries, seems fanciful. Likewise, 'cultural diversity' gestures towards or, perhaps more accurately, away from communities of people which, presumably, are culturally monolithic. But could such a group of people ever exist? Of course, it all depends on how you define 'culture' and, as COmmentators such as Williams (1958 & 1981) and Bagleton (2000) have shown, this is far from a straightforward matter, particularly in a historical moment where 'culture' can mean a way of life (as in 'cafe culture'), a work of art (as in 'high culture') or an episode of The Simpsons (as in 'popular culture'). Perhaps one way of bringing these various meanings together is to think in terms of the things people do. That is, culture is a matter of social practice. In the case of The Sirnpsons, then, we might say that its cultural significance derives from the socially located ways in which the program is made, watched, advertised, consumed, and talked about. In this sense, it is hard to imagine any community of people (as opposed to robots!) not 'doing' their lives in diverse ways. Indeed, are we not told from the moment of our births that we are each 'special' 'individuals', and that it is this particularity which makes us human?

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The making of the Man: Australian public schoolboy sporting violence 1850-1914

Cited by 2 publications

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“‘The Tragedy of the Punch Drunk': Reading Concussion in Australian Sporting Newspapers, 1843–1954”

“‘The Tragedy of the Punch Drunk': Reading Concussion in Australian Sporting Newspapers, 1843–1954”

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