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Chicago, City Of Neighborhoods: Histories And Tours, Dominic Pacyga, Ellen Skerrett
Chicago, City Of Neighborhoods: Histories And Tours, Dominic Pacyga, Ellen Skerrett
Dominic Pacyga
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A Case Study In Amateur Conflict: The Athletic War In Canada, 1906-1908, Don Morrow
A Case Study In Amateur Conflict: The Athletic War In Canada, 1906-1908, Don Morrow
Donald Morrow
The major objective of this article was to examine the issues prominent in Canada’s amateur ‘athletic war.’ Officially, the schism boiled down to a disagreement between two groups over whether or not amateurs could be allowed to participate with and/or against professionals in team sports while still retaining their amateur standing. The two warring factions were the Canadian Amateur Athletic Union (CAAU) and the Amateur Athletic Federation of Canada (AAF of C); in reality, it was an ideological power struggle between the emerging centre of sport in twentieth century Canada, Toronto, and the revered hub of organized sport in nineteenth …