NASSH CONVENTION PROGRAM

French Lick Resort
French Lick, Indiana
May 24-27, 2002

Friday May 24

9:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M.

NASSH Council Meeting (Director's Room)
Presiding: Allen Guttmann, Amherst College

9:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M.

NASSH Committee Meetings
- Publication Board (Card Room)

Registration (Lobby)

7:30 P.M.

NASSH Welcome Party (Hoosier D)

Saturday May 25

7:30 A.M.

Grad Student Breakfast (Hoosier A)
- For Graduate Students Only
- For all others, Breakfast on your own

8:00 A.M. -8:30 A.M.

Opening and Welcome (Hoosier B)
- John Findling, Indiana University Southeast
- F.C. Richardson, Chancellor, Indiana University Southeast
- Allen Guttmann, Amherst College
- Jerry Gems, North Central College

SESSION I

THE ECONOMICS OF BASEBALL (Taggart A)

Moderator: Michael Lomax,University of Georgia

8:30-8:50

Ryan Anderson, Purdue University
"The Games Between Boys," White Manhood, Class, and Baseball Players in Wilmington, North Carolina's City League, 1906-1917"

8:50-9:10

John Slater, Western Carolina University
"The Power of Pluto Water: The Chicago Cubs at French Lick Springs, 1943-1945"

9:10-9:30

Michael Carriere, University of Chicago
"Diamonds are Forever?: Little League and the Rise of the New Economy"

9:30-9:50

Comment/Discussion

SESSION II

OLYMPIC LEADERSHIP FROM BRUNDAGE TO SAMARANCH (Taggart B)

Moderator: Larry Gerlach, University of Utah

8:30-9:50

Panel:

Stephen Wenn, Wilfrid Laurier University
Scott Martyn, University of Windsor
Robert Barney, University of Western Ontario

SESSION III

SPORT BIOGRAPHY (Habig)

Moderator: Tom Jable, William Paterson University

8:30-8:50

Maynard Brichford, University of Illinois
"Bob Zuppke, the Dutch Master"

8:50-9:10

Jim Odenkirk, Arizona State University
"Not the Little Old Lady from Dubuque; but Sol Butler, A Forgotten World Class Athlete"

9:10-9:30

John Carroll, Lamar University
"Jim Brown and Racism at Syracuse University, 1953-1970"

9:30-9:50

Comment/Discussion

SESSION IV

"BAD" BODIES, "GOOD" BODIES (Monon)

Moderator: Roberta Park, University of California

8:30-8:55

Nancy Struna, University of Maryland
"Constructing Female Prostitution: The Body as Commodity and Bawdy Houses in the Early National United States"

8:55-9:20

Patricia Vertinsky, University of British Columbia
"Embodying Normalcy: Narratives Around Somatotyping"

9:20-9:50

Comment/Discussion

9:50-10:05

Coffee Break

SESSION V

NATURE AND GENDER CONSTRUCTION (Taggart A)

Moderator: Nancy Struna

10:05-10:25

Greg Gillespie and Kevin Wamsley, University of Western Ontario
"My Chief Object - Fine Heads: Big Game Hunting Imperialism, and Masculinities in the British North American West"

10:25-10:45

Charlene Weaving, University of Western Ontario
"The Myth of 'Mountain Men' and 'Mountain Mommas:' A Historical Examination of Canadian Mountaineering and Gender Construction"

10:45-11:05

Susan Birrell, University of Iowa
"The Resurrection of George Mallory"

11:05-11:25

Comment/Discussion

SESSION VI

SOCCER: THE WORLD'S GAME (Taggart B)

Moderator; Chuck Korr, University of Missouri-St. Louis

10:05-10:30

Matt Taylor, University of Portsmouth, England
"Work and Play: The Professional Footballer in England, 1918-1950"

10:30-10:55

Paul Dietschy, University of Besancon, France
"The History of Football in Africa: Problems and Perspectives"

10:55-11:20

Commentator: Pierre Lanfranchi, DeMontfort University, England

SESSION VII

RECONSTRUCTING LIVES THROUGH RESEARCH (Habig)

Moderator: Jody Davenport, Auburn University

10:05-10:25

Don Kyle, University of Texas, Arlington
"Kyniska of Sparta - Engendering Olympic Victory?"

10:25-10:45

Russell Field, University of Toronto
"What's Past Is Prologue: The Transformation of Geza Feldman and the Role of Physical Activity in the Life of George Field"

10:45-11:05

Jackie Esposito, Penn State University
"324!! Joe Paterno: The Person and the Legend - A Study of the Role of the Archivist in Documenting a Living Legend"

11:05-11:20

Comment/Discussion

SESSION VIII

SPORT AND PLACE (Monon)

Moderator: Norrie Baker, University of Buffalo

10:05-10:25

Bob Trumpbour, Penn State University
"The Intersection of Racial Equity and Unionism in the Construction of Three Rivers Stadium"

10:25-10:45

Philip Suchma, Ohio State University
"'The City of Champions' to the ' Mistake By the Lake': Sport During Cleveland's Rustbelt Transformation"

10:45-11:05

Charles Kupfer, Penn State University, Harrisburg
"Crabs in the Grey Cup: Baltimore's Canadian Football Sojourn"

11:05-11:20

Comment/Discussion

SESSION IX

WINTER SPORTS (Taggart A)

Moderator: Duncan Jamieson, Ashland University

11:25-11:45

Bob Pruter, Lewis University
"Skating on Thin Ice: Exploring the Rise and Fall of a Winter Sport"

11:45-12:05

Carly Adams, University of Western Ontario
"Setting the Standard for Women's Hockey: Uncovering the History of the Preston Rivulettes"

12:05-12:25

K. W. Kirkwood, University of Western Ontario
"Maurice Richard - Progenitor of the Quiet Revolution"

12:25-12:45

Michael Giardina, University of Illinois
"L.A. Story: Historical Reflections on 'Wayne Gretzky's Los Angeles,' 1988-1996"

SESSION X

BASEBALL: A PACIFIC RIM PERSPECTIVE (Taggert B)

Moderator: Steve Gietschier, The Sporting News

11:25-11:45

Gerald Gems, North Central College
"Baseball, Bushido, and the American Sporting Influence in Japan"

11:45-12:05

Sam Regalado, California State University, Stanislaus
"Assimilation or Isolation? Nisei Baseball and the American Mainstream"

12:05-12:25

Bang-Chool Kim, Ohio State University
"Professional Baseball in Korea"

12:25-12:45

Comment/Discussion

SESSION XI

SPORTS AND GAMBLING (Habig)

Moderator: Ron Smith, Penn State University

11:25-11:50

Steve Riess, Northeastern Illinois University
"The Chicago Bookie Bill of 1935"

11:50-12:15

Al Figone, Humboldt State University
"Ned Irish and the Rise of Gambling in College Basketball: Filling in Open Dates for the Betting Gentry"

12:15-12:45

Discussion

SESSION XII

SPORT, SCIENCE, AND MEDICINE (Monon)

Moderator: JoDee Dyreson, Penn State University

11:25-11:45

Fred Mason, University of Western Ontario
"R. Tait McKenzie's Medical Work and the Beginnings of Physical Activity Programs for People With Disabilities"

11:45-12:05

Alison Wrynn, California State University, Long Beach
"The Grand Tour: American Exercise Science and Sports Medicine Encounters the World, 1926-1966"

12:05-12:25

Douglas McLaughlin, Penn State University
"The Concept of Self in the Science of Sport Performance: An Analysis of Research on Muscular Strength Development from 1955-1988"

12:25-12:45

Nicholas Bourne, University of Texas
"The Making of a Champion: A History of Athletic Training in Boxing"

12:45-1:45

Lunch (Hoosier A)

John R. Betts Address

David Zang, Towson University

2:00

Afternoon and Evening Free

SUNDAY MAY 26

Breakfast: On own

8:30-10:15

NASSH Business Meeting (Hoosier B)

Presiding: Allen Guttmann, Amherst college

10:15-10:30

Coffee Break

SESSION XIII

INDIGENOUS SPORT (Taggert A)

Moderator: John Nauright, University of Abertay Dundee, Scotland

10:30-10:55

Ben Rader, University of Nebraska
"Resistance and Accommodation: Native American Sports in the United States, 1870-1930"

10:55-11:20

Janice Forsyth, University of Western Ontario
"Tee-pees and Tomahawks: Aboriginal Cultural Representation at the 1976 Olympic Games"

11:20-11:45

Victoria Paraschak, University of Windsor
"Generation(s) of Recreation Services: A Northwest Territories Case Study, 1962-2002"

11:45-12:15

Comment/Discussion

SESSION XIV

HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE (Taggert B)

Moderator: Alan Metcalfe, University of Windsor

10:30-11:00

Doug Booth, University of Otago, New Zealand
"Deconstruction and Sport History: Much Ado About Nothing"

11:00-11:30

Murray Phillips, University of Queensland, Australia
"Looking in the Closet: An Examination of the Rhetorical Dimensions of Sport History"

11:30-12:15

Comment/Discussion

SESSION XV

AQUATIC SPORTS (Habig)

Moderator: Steve Riess, Northeastern Illinois University

10:30-10:55

Susan Saint Sing, Penn State University
"The 1920 Olympic Gold Medal and the 'Breakthrough Kinesis' of American Scientific Oarsmanship: The Comparison of American and British Rowing Strokes and Nationalism"

10:55-11:20

Ying Wushanley, Millersville University
"Gertrude Ederle and a Reconsideration of the 1926 English Channel Swim"

11:20-11:45

Robert Kossuth, University of Western Ontario
"Dangerous Waters: Victorian Decorum and London Bathers"

11:45-12:15

Comment/Discussion

SESSION XVI

TRANSFORMING WOMEN'S BODIES (Monon)

Moderator: Linda Borish, Western Michigan University

10:30-10:55

Catriona Parratt, University of Iowa
"Noble, Dignified, and Pure: Dance and Moral Reform in Urban
England, c. 1850-1920"

10:55-11:20

Jun-Nicole Matsushita, University of Iowa
"The Circular Cage of Dress: The Subjection of the Victorian Upper Class Woman to the Panoptic Gaze"

11:20-11:45

Jaime Schultz, University of Iowa
"Athletic Flow: Sporting Women and Tampon Advertising, 1936-1960"

11:45-12:15

Comment/Discussion

12:30

Lunch (Hoosier A)

Maxwell L. Howell and Reet Howell International Address

Gertrud Pfister, University of Copenhagen

SESSION XVII

OLYMPIC ISSUES (Taggert A)

Moderator: Scott Martyn, University of Windsor

2:00-2:20

Jonathan Paul, University of Windsor
"Hosting the Games: A Historical Analysis of the Economic Viability of the Olympic Games of Montreal, Los Angeles, and Atlanta"

2:20-2:40

Tara Magdalinski, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia
"Selling Olympism: Conflating Corporate and Olympic Philosophies through Olympic Education"

2:40-3:00

Darcy Plymire, Towson University
"Symbolic Politics and Realpolitik: U.S. Reactions to Beijing's Olympic Bids in 1993 and 2001"

3:00-3:20

Elizabeth Hanley, Penn State University
"Adding New Sports to the Olympic Games: Is More Better?"

3:20-3:40

Comment/Discussion

SESSION XVIII

SPORT IN ASIA (Taggert B)

Moderator: Doug Booth, University of Otago, New Zealand

2:00-2:25

Paul Dimeo, University College Northampton, United Kingdom
"Sport, Communal Politics and the Partition of India"

2:25-2:50

Louise Kinnaird, University of Melbourne, Australia
"Sumo Ritual: Invented Tradition and the Construction of Japanese Cultural Identity"

2:50-3:15

Susan Zieff, San Francisco State University
"China Leaps Forward: Ideology and Authority in the Promotion of Mass Physical Culture"

3:15-3:45

Comment/Discussion

SESSION XIX

SPORT: A VITAL PART OF LATINO LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES (Habig)

Moderator: Sam Regalado, California State University, Stanislaus

2:00-2:25

Jorge Iber, Texas Tech University
"The Mexicanos Show Them: The 1961 Donna Redskins and Their Drive to the Texas State Football Championship"

2:25-2:50

Adrian Burgos, University of Illinois
"The Usual Suspects: Danny Almonte and the Politics of Latino
Inclusion in America's Game"

2:50-3:15

Richard Santillan, California Polytechnic University, Pomona
"Day Laborers and Futbol: The Politics of Workers Without Borders"

3:15-3:45

Comment/Discussion

3:45-4:00

Coffee Break

SESSION XX

SOCCER: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE (Taggert A)

Moderator: Charles Martin, University of Texas, El Paso

4:00-4:20

Neal Garnham, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
"Patronage, Politics, and Folk Football: the Case of Alnwick,
Northumberland"

4:20-4:40

Peter Alegi, Eastern Kentucky University
"Luthuli's Charges: Black Power, 'Zuluness' and Football Culture in South Africa, 1920s-1930s"

4:40-5:00

Cesar Torres, State University of New York, Brockport
"Most Popular But Absent: Football and the 1924 Argentine Olympic Team"

5:00-5:20

Gabe Logan, Northern Illinois University
"Chicago Soccer in the Golden Age of Sport"

5:20-5:45

Comment/Discussion:

Andrei Markovits, University of Michigan

SESSION XXI

FOOTBALL SYMPOSIUM (Taggert B)

Moderator: Mel Adelman, Ohio State University

4:00-5:45

Panel:

Mark Dyreson, Penn State University
John Watterson, James Madison University
Ron Smith, Penn State University
Michael Oriard, Oregon State University

SESSION XXII

TITLE IX AND ITS AFTERMATH (Habig)

Moderator: Maureen Smith, California State University, Sacramento

4:00-4:25

Shelley Lucas, Boise State University
"Iowa's 'Basketball Situation': Governance, Gender, and the Girls' Union"

4:25-4:50

Sarah Fields, University of Georgia
"Sex, Law, and the Female Wrestler"

4:50-5:15

Theresa Walton, University of Iowa
"Neither Jell-O nor Mud: Female Amateur Wrestling in the United States"

5:15-5:45

Comment/Discussion

6:00

Southern Indiana Picnic (Garden Patio)

MONDAY MAY 27

Breakfast: On own

SESSION XXIII

BASKETBALL (Taggert A)

Moderator: Rita Liberti, California State University, Hayward

8:30-8:55

Claude Johnson, Greenwich, Connecticut
"The Colored Basketball World's Champions, 1907-1925"

8:55-9:20

Susan Rayl, State University of New York, Cortland
"'The Fur is Expected to Fly' - African-American Women and
Basketball in New York City, 1920-1945"

9:20-9:45

Murry Nelson, Penn State University
"The NBA Began in Akron!? The Midwest Basketball Conference, 1935-1937"

9:45-10:10

Comment/Discussion

SESSION XXIV

BASEBALL ROUNDTABLE: THE LEGITIMACY OF BASEBALL: ITS PLACE IN AMERICAN HISTORIOGRAPHY (Taggert B)

Moderator: Larry Gerlach, University of Utah

8:30-10:10

Panel:

Richard Crepeau, The University of Central Florida
Joseph Arbena, Clemson University
Steve Gietschier, The Sporting News, St. Louis

SESSION XXV

CONTEMPLATING IDEAL MAN (Habig)

Moderator: Jan Todd, University of Texas

8:30-8:55

Terry Todd, University of Texas
"How Big Is Too Big?: Reflections on Sculpture and the Aesthetics of Men's Bodybuilding"

8:55-9:20

Kim Beckwith, University of Texas
"Looking at the Outside to Understand the Inside: An Analysis of 100 Years of American Muscle Magazine Covers"

9:20-9:45

John Fair, Georgia College and University at Milledgeville
"Idealism or Racism? Color Consciousness and the AAU Mr. America Contest, 1939-1982"

9:45-10:10

Comment/Discussion

10:15-10:30

Coffee Break

SESSION XXVI

BLACK ATHLETES IN POST WORLD WAR II AMERICA (Taggert A)

Moderator: James Coates, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay

10:30-10:55

Michael Lomax, University of Georgia
"Bedazzle Them with Brilliance, Bamboozle Them with Bull: Harry Edwards, Black Power, and the Revolt of the Black Athlete Revisited"

10:55-11:20

Maureen Smith, California State University, Sacramento
"Hank Aaron and Home Runs: An Analysis of Black and White
Newspaper Coverage of Aaron's Chase for Babe Ruth's All-Time Home Run Record"

11:20-11:45

Billy Hawkins, University of Georgia
"Is Stacking Dead? A Case Study of the Stacking Hypothesis at a Southeastern Conference Football Program"

11:45-12:10

Comment/Discussion

SESSION XXVII

PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND RECREATION I (Taggert B)

Moderator: Patricia Vertinsky, University of British Columbia

10:30-10:55

Roberta Park, University of California, Berkeley
"The 1999 World Congress 'Sport for All' Declaration Seen in the Context of American Playground and Recreation Endeavors, 1890s-1940s"

10:55-11:20

Claudia Guedes, University of California, Berkeley
"'Of Interest to Every Thinking Man and Woman of Today': Play and Recreational Programs for Youth, 1895-1940 - Three Case Studies"

11:20-11:45

Martha Verbrugge, Bucknell University
"Separate and Unequal: Physical Education and Sports for Boys and Girls in the Racially Segregated Public Schools of Washington, D.C., 1889-1954"

11:45-12:10

Comment/Discussion

SESSION XXVIII

1930s OLYMPICS (Habig)

Moderator: Mark Dyreson, Penn State University

10:30-10:55

Jim Nendel, Penn State University
"The Finnish Finish: The 1932 Olympic 5000 Meter Final"

10:55-11:20

Mark Brown, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
"Formation of the 1936 United States Olympic Basketball Team"

11:20-11:45

David Welky, Purdue University
"'Everything That Americanism Stands For': American Newspapers and the 1936 Olympics"

11:45-12:10

Comment/Discussion

12:15

Lunch: on your own

1:15-2:00

Graduate Student Essay Award (Hoosier B)

Moderator: Allen Guttmann, Amherst College
Speaker: ?

SESSION XXIX

PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND RECREATION II (Taggert A)

Moderator: Catriona Parratt, University of Iowa

2:00-2:25

Jarrod Schenewark, Northboro, Massachusetts
"On My Honor: Contributions of Physical Educators and Athletes to the Boy Scouts of America, 1910-1920"

2:25-2:50

Nancy Wardwell, Ohio State University
"Gathering to Scatter: The Impact of Early Physical Educators
from Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute"

2:50-3:20

Comment/Discussion

SESSION XXX

INTERCOLLEGIATE SPORT (Taggert B)

Moderator: Al Figone, Humboldt State University

2:00-2:20

Andy Doyle, Winthrop University
"George Denny, Intercollegiate Football, and the Institutional
Modernization of the University of Alabama, 1912-1934"

2:20-2:40

Ray Schmidt, College Football Historical Society, Ventura, California
"In Search of the Notre Dame Experience: Catholic College Football, 1919-1930"

2:40-3:00

Brad Austin, Ohio State University
"Survival of the (Fiscally) Fittest: Financing College Athletics in the 1930s"

3:00-3:20

Tim Elcombe, Penn State University
"Searching for an Athletic Identity: The Definition and Post-War
Emergence of Penn State Intercollegiate Athletics"

3:20-3:40

Comment/Discussion

SESSION XXXI

SPORT AND THE MEDIA (Habig)

Moderator: Troy Paino, Winona State University

2:00-2:25

Amanda Schweinbenz, University of British Columbia
"Smile for the Camera: Media Feminization of Women Athletes at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles"

2:25-2:50

Don Morrow, University of Western Ontario
"Moaning, Shoveling, and Reeling: An Analysis and Synthesis of
Early 20th Century Canadian Sporting Journalism"

2:50-3:15

Heather Doran, University of Texas
Female Olympians in the Red, White, and Blue: The Emergence of a National Media Hero in the Games of Los Angeles and Seoul"

3:15-3:40

Comment/Discussion

SESSION XXXII

GOLF (Taggert A)

Moderator: Jim Odenkirk, Arizona State University

3:45-4:10

John Nauright, University of Abertay Dundee, Scotland
"The Emergence of Golf as an International Sporting Spectacle,
1904-1935"

4:10-4:35

Nancy Bouchier and Ken Cruickshank, McMaster University
"Golf Greens and Green Games: The Rise of Golf Clubs and Environmentalism in the Burlington Bay Watershed"

4:35-5:00

Comment/Discussion

SESSION XXXIII

SPORT AND GENDER IN MODERN ASIA (Taggert B)

Moderator: Ying Wushanley, Millersville University

3:45-4:10

J. A. Mangan, Strathclyde University, United Kingdom
"Sri Lanka and the Projection of the Masculine Image"

4:10-4:35

Dong Jingxia, Peking University, China
"China and the Projection of the Feminine Image"

4:35-5:00

Comment/Discussion

SESSION XXXIV

SPORT PERFORMANCE AND THE EROTIC (Habig)

Moderator: Allen Guttmann, Amherst College

3:45-4:05

John McClelland, University of Toronto
"When Is Sport Really Sport?"

4:05-4:25

Christopher Mack, Oswego State University
"No Pain, No Gain: Antonin Artaud's 'Theater of Cruelty' and
the Spectacle of Modern Sport"

4:25-4:45

Thierry Terret, University of Lyon, France
"Sport in Erotic: Sportswomen in Erotic Photos in France Années Folles"

4:45-5:10

Comment/Discussion

7:00

Banquet and Awards (Grand Colonnade Room)

Presiding: Allen Guttmann, Amherst College