On 27 Dec 2000, 8:58, Soundara Rajan wrote:
> A young friend needs links to websites which can help
> her prepare a paper on the "History of Sports". Any
> help would be greatly appreciated.
Hickok Sports: "You're Starting Place For Exploring Sports History"
http://www.hickoksports.com/history.shtml
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The following page is not currently coming in for me, but I would
suggest you check it, later. It has supposedly has content about The
History of Sports:
http://www2.excite.sfu.ca/pgm/students/elie_dolgin/sports/sports.html
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Here is the British Society of Sports History site:
http://www.umist.ac.uk/UMIST_Sport/index2.html
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This Yahoo page of links on Sports History should give your friend
several research leads:
http://dir.yahoo.com/Recreation/Sports/History/
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At About.com's Kids Sports site, they have a nice section on History of
Sports:
http://kidsportsrec.about.com/kids/kidsportsrec/cs/sportshistory/
And this site has an opening for a guide, so when your friend becomes
an expert on this subject, she can apply for the job. :-)
Also at About.com, there is an interesting and probably valid point of
view at the Inventors site, where the point is proffered that the
equipment invented for sports had much to do with the evolvement of
various sports games.
http://inventors.about.com/science/inventors/library/inventors/
blsports.htm
Note: The above URL is actually one continuous line and should be
entered into your browser's address box as one line.
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And lastly, be sure and suggest to your friend that she read this brief
essay about Sports in the Encyclopedia Britannica that in part reads:
"Many animals engage in play, but homo sapiens is the only animal to
have invented sports. Since sports are an invention, a part of culture
rather than an aspect of nature, all definitions of sports are somewhat
arbitrary. Whether sports are a human universal found in every known
culture or a phenomenon unique to modern society depends upon one's
definition of sports."
[...snip for copyright...]
The essay is here:
http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/
5/0,5716,114945+1+108486,00.html
Note: The above URL is actually one continuous line and should be
entered into your browser's address box as one line.
Alan
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