What about the south? A case study of soccer's early development in Winchester.

Autor/in	Denness, Ian
Titel	What about the south? A case study of soccer's early development in Winchester. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Was ist mit dem Süden? Eine Fallstudie über die frühe Entwicklung des Fußballs in Winchester.
Quelle	In: Soccer and society, 21 (2020) 4, S. 381-394 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1466-0970; 1743-9590
DOI	10.1080/14660970.2020.1751463
Schlagwörter	Fallstudie; England; Fußball; Sport; Sportsoziologie; Winter; Arbeiterklasse; Schulsport; Entwicklung; Fallstudie; Sportart; Landgemeinde; Arbeiterklasse; Landgemeinde; Cricket; Fußball; Schulsport; Sport; Sportart; Sportgeschichte; Sportsoziologie; 19. Jahrhundert; Winter; Entwicklung; England
Abstract	The historiography of soccer's early years includes numerous references to the game's development within the industrial heartlands of nineteenth-century Britain. But there are few studies of how soccer came to be established as a popular sport in rural and non-industrial parts of southern England. Using Winchester as a case study, this paper examines the factors which, during a twenty-year period from 1884, transformed soccer from an obscure diversion into a sport that vied with cricket as the area's most popular recreation. The sources reveal that soccer initially gained acceptance at local schools during the 1880s before being taken up by middle-class cricketers eager to find a game to play during the winter. However, soccer failed to take hold of the public's imagination until the late 1890s. Reasons for this failure are identified, as are some of the factors which led, from 1895, to a boom in the game's popularity among the local working class. (Autor).
Erfasst von	Bundesinstitut für Sportwissenschaft, Bonn
Update	2021/1