DEVELOPMENT OF SPORT IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS – AND HOW THEY SHAPED SPORTS AND GAMES QUESTIONS THAT NEED TO BE ANSWERED: WHAT PART DID PUBLIC SCHOOLS PLAY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SPORTS? WHAT QUALITIES DID THEY INSTILL AND WHY? HOW DID THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS SPREAD GAMES THROUGHOUT THE BRITISH EMPIRE? WHAT WAS MEANT BY BEING AN AMATEUR AND PROFESSIONAL?

s  BRITISH SOCIETY SHIFTED FROM RURAL TO URBAN  VARIOUS ACTS WERE INRTRODUCED AND SPORTING BODIES EMERGED  RAILWAYS MEANT THAT PEOPLE COULD TRAVEL  PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATED THE WEALTHY AND THEY BECAME LEADERS WITHIN SOCIETY

IMPACT ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF GAMES  USED FOR DISCIPLINE AND BEHAVIOUR  SPECIALIST FACILITIES  PROFESSIONAL COACHES  HOUSE SYSTEM DEVELOPED  INTER-SCHOOL FIXTURES DEVELOPED  ATHLETICISM WAS BORN

QUALITIES DEVELOPED THROUGH GAMES……  COURAGE  LEADERSHIP  ENDURANCE  SELF-RELIANCE  SELF-CONTROL  QUALITIES FOR THE BATTLE FIELD  TRUE GENTLEMAN – TO PLAY SPORT FOR INTRINSIC REASONS

PUBLIC SCHOOL BOYS BECAME…….  UNIVERSITY STUDENTS  MISSINARIES  EDUCATORS  ADMINISTRATORS  VICARS  INDUSTRIALISTS  INVOLVED IN SETTING UP NATIONAL GOV. BODIES  ARMY OFFICERS

TASK…….  WHAT HELPED TO PROMOTE GAMES?  HOW WERE GAMES ORGANISED?  HOW DID THE EX-PUBLIC SCHOOLBOYS HELP TO SPREAD TEAM GAMES?

HOMEWORK  WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE AN AMATEUR AND A PROFESSIONAL IN SPORT?  HOW IS SPORT ORGANISED AND ADMINISTERED IN THE UK?

AMATEURISM AND PROFESSIONALISM  Amateur stems from the Latin word AMARE which means ‘to love’ They take part in sport for the love of it rather than any extrinsic reward.  The concept of amateurism really evolved in the nineteenth-century England among the privileged upper classes whose sons attended elite boarding schools such as charterhouse and Eaton. Sport was used as a medium to exercise social control within school – to curb rowdy behaviour! By the 1860s games became the ideal setting for boys to learn valuable lessons such as self-control, teamwork and fair play. In short, the games field was the place that your character was formed.

THEY DID NOT TRAIN!  GENTLEMAN AMATEURS  Certain wealthy individuals who excelled in games were referred to as a ‘gentleman amateurs’. They were from the upper and middle classes and could afford to spend a lot of their time playing sport for enjoyment. Working –class men, however, could not afford to miss work in order to play, so at a time when spectator sport was growing, if they were good enough, they played full time for payment. It is very important to understand that at this time the primary distinction between amateurism and professionalism was social status or class, not payment. Being an amateur was to do with a set of unwritten rules about how life should be lived as well as how sport should be played.  THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN AMATEURISM AND PROF. WAS SOCIAL STATUS OR CLASS, NOT PAYMENT