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Massaging the Amateur Ethos

Massaging the Amateur Ethos. British Professional Trainers at Stockholm 1912. Amateurism and Coaching. Contempt for specialisation Natural talent Coaching undermined elegance of style Professionals underwent ‘joyless, mechanical training’. Spencer (Sam) Wisdom. ‘Choppy’ Warburton.

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Massaging the Amateur Ethos

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  1. Massaging the Amateur Ethos British Professional Trainers at Stockholm 1912

  2. Amateurism and Coaching • Contempt for specialisation • Natural talent • Coaching undermined elegance of style • Professionals underwent ‘joyless, mechanical training’

  3. Spencer (Sam) Wisdom

  4. ‘Choppy’ Warburton

  5. Harry Andrews

  6. Bunyan - Haggert

  7. Sam Mussabini – Harcourt Gold

  8. British Trainers 1912

  9. 1950 - Professor William Klein at 85

  10. British Trainers 1912

  11. 1935 - Bill Thomas, with American coaches Keane Fitzpatrick, Matt Geiss and Tom Keane

  12. Alec Nelson

  13. Great Britain - Stockholm 1912

  14. Implications • Application of amateur ethos had different outcomes at different levels of sport • Sports historians have downplayed agency and concentrated on class interests • Desborough and Perry • Life courses of those making living from sport can enhance understanding of amateurism • Tendency to view 1912 Games as turning point in attitudes to coaching and training in Britain • Resistance to American coachingprimarily about issue of control

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