Awards

HONOR ADDRESSES

The tradition of the North American Society for Sport History to have Honor Addresses was begun in 1973 when the first convention was held at Ohio State University. It was decided to have special lectures to honor individuals who have been significant in the development of sport history. The three chosen in 1973 to be so honored and have addresses named after them were John R. Betts, Maxwell L. Howell, and Seward C. Staley. In 1994, the Maxwell L. Howell Address was expanded to the Maxwell and Reet Howell International Address.

JOHN R. BETTS (1917-1971) was a professor of history at Boston College with an emphasis upon cultural and intellectual history when he died in the summer of 1971. He was the leading historian of the cultural and social impact of sport in the United States at that time. Among other published articles in sport history are his “The Technological Revolution and the Rise of Sport”; “Agricultural Fairs and the Rise of Harness Racing”; and “Mind and Body in Early American Thought.” His manuscript on the cultural history of sport in America was nearing completion when he died. It was published posthumously as America’s Sporting Heritage, 1850-1950. John Betts devoted attention to sport history because the subject stimulated an intellectual curiosity in him. and the study of sport history has benefitted greatly by his reputable research in the area.

MAXWELL L. HOWELL AND REET HOWELL INTERNATIONAL ADDRESS honors Max Howell, who was born in Australia, and Reet Howell, who was born in Estonia. Max Howell has participated and coached in international sport, and has done graduate study in education psychology, exercise physiology, and sport history. He retired in 1992 from the University of Queensland, where he held the first chair in Human Movement Studies in Australia. Prior to his return to Australia, he was Director of Human Kinetics at the University of Ottawa. Previously he was Dean of the College of Professional Studies at San Diego State University following positions at the University of British Columbia and later at the University of Alberta. At Alberta, he began the graduate program in sport history from which a number of scholars in sport history have graduated. His ability to stimulate graduate students to do continuing research in the area of sport history has influenced programs in Canada, Australia, the United States, and elsewhere. He has published many articles and books including Sports and Games in Canadian Life, 1700 to the Present, History of Sport in Canada, and Aussie Gold: The Story of Australia at the Olympics. Max and Reet Howell collaborated on numerous books and articles since the 1970s. Both were prominent in the international scene until Reet succumbed to cancer in 1993. Max was chosen NASSH president-elect in 1975 and served as president and past-president. An international travel fund was established in their names in 1994.

SEWARD C. STALEY (1893-1991) had a lifetime involvement in sport and for two generations promoted the study of sport and sport history. Spending most of his professional career at the University of Illinois, as early as 1935 he advocated a curriculum of sport as the basis of physical education programs. He authored numerous articles from the 1920s. It was through his efforts that in 1960 the History of Sport Section of the College Physical Education Association was developed. This is of signal importance for it was out of this History of Sport Section that the stimulus for the development of the North American Society for Sport History was started. Until his death in 1991, he worked diligently on an immense bibliographical project in classifying sport literature. Seward Staley truly invigorated the study of sport and sport history.

The following individuals have given honor addresses since 1973:

John R. Betts Address
1973 - David Q. Voigt, Albright College
1974 - John A. Lucas, Penn State University
1975 - Richard D. Mandell, University of South Carolina
1977 - Betty Spears, University of Massachusetts
1978 - Eliot Asinof, New York City
1981 - Richard C. Crepeau, University of Central Florida
1982 - Don Mrozek, Kansas State University
1983 - Hal Ray, Western Michigan University
1985 - Paula Welch, University of Florida
1986 - William Baker, University of Maine, Orono
1987 - Stephen A. Riess, Northeastern Illinois University
1989 - Benjamin G. Rader, University of Nebraska
1991 - Stephen H. Hardy, University of New Hampshire
1993 - Richard Holt, University of Stirling
1995 - Michael Oriard, Oregon State University
1998 - Charles P. Korr, University of Missouri-St. Louis
1999 - Jules Tygiel, University of San Francisco
2002 - Dave Zang, Towson University
2003 - Catriona Parratt, University of Iowa
2004 - Jeffrey Hill, De Montfort University
2005 - Martha Verbrugge, Bucknell University
2008 - Samuel O. Regalado, California State U., Stanislaus
2010 - Mark Dyreson, Penn State University
2011 - Sarah Fields, Ohio State University

Maxwell L. Howell and Reet Howell International Address
1973 - Alan Metcalfe, University of Windsor
1974 - S. W. Wise, Carleton University
1975 - Gerald Redmond, University of Alberta
1976 - Earle F. Ziegler, University of Western Ontario
1977 - Frank Cosentino, University of Western Ontario
1978 - Robert K. Barney, University of Western Ontario
1979 - Michael A. Salter, University of Windsor
1980 - R. Gerald Glassford, University of Alberta
1981 - Barbara Schrodt, University of British Columbia
1984 - Alexander J. Young, Dalhousie University
1986 - Peter McIntosh, London, England
1988 - Randy Roberts, University of Houston
1989 - Maxwell L. Howell, University of Queensland
1990 - Arnd Krüger, Georg-August University-Göttingen
1992 - Donald G. Kyle, University of Texas-Arlington
1994 - James A. Mangan, University of Strathclyde-Jordanhill
1996 - Dennis Brailsford, University of Birmingham
1998 - Richard W. Pound, Montreal, Quebec
1999 - Grant Jarvie, University of Stirling
2000 - John Bale, University of Keele
2001 - Roland Renson, University of Leuven
2002 - Gertrud Pfister, University of Copenhagen
2003 - Doug Booth, University of Otago
2004 - Thierry Terret, University of Lyon
2005 - Christiane Eisenberg, Humbolt-Universitat zu Berlin
2006 - Jennifer Hargreaves, University of Brighton
2007 - Jinxia Dong, Beijing University
2009 - Wray Vamplew, University of Stirling
2011 - Bruce Kidd, University of Toronto

Seward Staley Address
1973 - Marvin H. Eyler, University of Maryland
1974 - Bruce L. Bennett, Ohio State University
1975 - Maxwell L. Howell, San Diego State University
1976 - Ronald A. Smith, Penn State University
1977 - Margaret Woodhouse, Radford College
1979 - Roberta J. Park, University of California, Berkeley
1980 - Allen Guttmann, Amherst College
1981 - Horst Ueberhorst, Ruhr-Universität
1982 - Marvin Eyler, University of Maryland
Nancy Struna, University of Minnesota
1983 - Alyce Cheska, University of Illinois
1984 - Mary Lou Remley, Indiana University
1985 - Lawrence W. Fielding, University of Louisville
1987 - Melvin L. Adelman, Ohio State University
1988 - Mark Harris, Arizona State University
1991 - Tony Mason, Warwick University
1992 - Patricia Vertinsky, University of British Columbia
1995 - Joan Chandler, University of Texas-Dallas
2000 - Peter Donnelly, University of Toronto
2001 - Colin Howell, St. Mary’s University
2006 - Susan Birrell, University of Iowa
2007 - Steven Riess, Northeastern Illinois University
2008 - Jan Todd, University of Texas at Austin
2009 - Nancy B. Bouchier, McMaster University
2010 - David Wiggins, George Mason University

NASSH BOOK AWARD WINNERS—MONOGRAPH

1989 Wray Vamplew, Pay Up and Play the Game: Professional Sport in Britain, 1875-1914 (Cambridge University Press)
1990 Warren Goldstein, Playing for Keeps: A History of Early Baseball (Cornell University Press)
1991 Harold Seymour, The People’s Game (Oxford University Press)
1992 Allen Guttmann, Women’s Sports: A History (Columbia University Press)
1993 Peter Levine, Ellis Island to Ebbets Field: Sport and the American Jewish Experience (Oxford University Press)
1994 Robert Edelman, Serious Fun: A History of Spectator Sports in the U.S.S.R. (Oxford University Press)
1995 Susan F. Cahn, Coming on Strong: Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth Century Women’s Sport (Free Press)
1996 Robin Lester, Stagg’s University: The Rise, Decline, and Fall of Big-Time Football at Chicago (University of Illinois Press)
1997 Bruce Kidd, The Struggle for Canadian Sport (University of Toronto Press)
1998 (No Award Given)
1999 Douglas Booth, The Race Game: Sport and Politics in South Africa (Frank Cass)
2000 John M. Carroll, Red Grange and the Rise of Modern Football (University of Illinois Press)
2001 Mike Huggins, Flat Racing and British Society, 1790-1914 (Frank Cass)
2002 Pamela Grundy, Learning to Win: Sports, Education, and Social Change in Twentieth-Century North Carolina (University of North Carolina Press)
2003 Robert K. Barney, Stephen R. Wenn, and Scott G. Martyn, Selling the Five Rings: The International Olympic Committee and the Rise of Olympic Commercialism (University of Utah Press)
2004 Daniel A. Nathan, Saying It’s So: A Cultural History of the Black Sox Scandal (University of Illinois Press)
2005 Allen Guttmann, Sports: The First Five Millennia (University of Massachusetts Press)
2006 David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game (University of Nebraska Press) and
Douglas Booth, The Field: Truth and Fiction in Sport History (Routledge)
2007 Barbara Keys, Globalizing Sport: National Rivalry and International Community in the 1930s (Harvard University Press)
2008 Donald G. Kyle, Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World (Blackwell)
2009 Kevin B. Witherspoon, Before the Eyes of the World: Mexico and the 1968 Olympic Games (Northern Illinois University Press)
2010 Robert Edleman, Spartak Moscow: A History of The People’s Team in the Workers’ State (Cornell University Press)
2011 Kay Schiller and Christopher Young, The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany (University of California Press)
2012 Mary Louise Adams, Artistic Impressions: Figure Skating, Masculinity, and the Limits of Sport (University of Toronto Press)

NASSH BOOK AWARD WINNERS—ANTHOLOGY

2006 (No Award Given)
2007 Murray Phillips (ed.), Deconstructing Sport History (State University of New York Press)
2008 Jorge Iber and Samuel O. Regalado (eds.), Mexican American and Sports: A Reader
on Athletics and Barrio Life (Texas A&M University Press).
2009 Susan Brownell (ed.), The 1904 Anthropology Days and the Olympic Games: Sport, Race, and American Imperialism (University of Nebraska Press)
2010 Mike Cronin, William Murphy, and Paul Rouse (eds.), The Gaelic Athletic Association, 1884-2009: A People’s History (Irish Academic Press)
2011 (No Award Given)
2012 Leonard Cassuto and Stephen Partridge (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Baseball (Cambridge University Press)

NASSH HONOR AWARDS

HONORARY PRESIDENTS
Edwin B. Henderson (1973)
Seward C. Staley (1973)
Clarence A. Forbes (1987)

HONOR AWARDS
John A. Krout (1975)
Robert W. Henderson (1975)
Elmer D. Mitchell (1976)
Mabel Lee (1976)
Marvin H. Eyler (1976)
Clarence A. Forbes (1978)
Bruce L. Bennett (1981)

NASSH RECOGNITION AWARD (service to sport history)
Larry Malley (1991)
University of Illinois Press (1991)
Canadian Journal of History of Sport (1992)
J. A. “Tony” Mangan (1993)
Maynard Brichford (1995)
Richard Wentworth (1996)
Wayne Wilson (2001)
John Gaustad and Sports Pages Bookstore (2001)
Robert K. Barney (2003)
John A. Lucas (2003)
Jules Tygiel (2007)
Roberta Park (2008)
Earle Zeigler (2008)
Joe Arbena (2009)
Ronald A. Smith (2009)
Allen Guttmann (2010)
Larry Gerlach (2011)
Melvin L. Adelman (2012)

NASSH SERVICE AWARD (service within NASSH)
Susan F. Smith (1991)
Ronald A. Smith (1992)
Harold L. “Hal” Ray (1993)
Mary Lou LeCompte (1995)
Jack Berryman (1996)
Betty Spears (1997)
Alan Metcalfe (1998)
Roberta Park (1998)
David Voigt (2001)
Joanna “Jody” Davenport (2003)
Richard Crepeau (2004)
Bruce Kidd (2005)
Richard McGehee (2006)
Barbara “Bim” Schrodt (2006)
J. Thomas Jable (2008)
Patricia Vertinsky (2011)
James E. Odenkirk (2012)