History of Sports Coaching in Britain - Overcoming Amateurism

This is the first book to examine the full history of British sports coaching, from its amateur roots in the deep nineteenth century to the high performance, high status professional coaching cultures of today. The book draws on primary source material, including the lost coaching lives of key individuals in British coaching. Tracing the continuing impact of the nineteenth century amateur ethos throughout the twentieth century, and the influence of developments in international coaching, particularly in North America and the Eastern Bloc, the book illuminates the origins of the organisations and philosophies that surround performance sport in Britain today.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Laying the Foundations: Victorian coaching practices 2. Coaching Before the First World War 3. The Interwar Years 4. Post-1945 Coaching Initiatives 5. British Coaching in the 1950s and 1960s 6. Cold War Influences 7. Coaching, Science and Medicine 8. Structural Changes and British Coaching 9. Conclusion

About the author

Dave Day is Reader in Sports History at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. His research interests include the history of sports coaching and constructing the biographies of coaches. His book Professionals, Amateurs and Performance: Sports Coaching in England, 1789-1914 was published in 2012
Tegan Carpenter is a Sports Lecturer at Bath College, UK, where her research interests have centred on the history of coaching practice and training in the twentieth century.

Product details

• Authors: Tegan Carpenter, Carpenter Tegan, Dave Day, Dave (Manchester Metropolitan University Day, Dave Carpenter Day
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.04.2017
• EAN: 9781138067813
• ISBN: 978-1-138-06781-3
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: Routledge Research in Sports Coaching
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, SPORTS & RECREATION / General, SPORTS & RECREATION / Coaching / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SPORTS & RECREATION / History, Sports training & coaching, history of sport, British & Irish history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural history, Sports training and coaching, History and Archaeology, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Olympic & Paralympic games, Olympic and Paralympic games