From Butlins to Europe: Fodens Ladies in the 1960s and 1970s

ABSTRACT

Emerging out of the shadows cast over women’s football following its marginalisation by the Football Association in the inter-war years, Fodens Ladies, formed at a lorry manufacturing plant in Sandbach, Cheshire, contributed to a new vibrancy in the game between 1960 and 1980. Emulating many similar works-based predecessors, the team established itself as one of the pioneers of a female football revival and provided a public arena for several prominent international players of the period. From its early days playing charity matches the company team became a regular participant in the Butlin’s Cup, winning it in 1969 and 1970, before beating Southampton in the 1974 Mitre Cup final. The team also undertook overseas tours with team members receiving only minimal support from the company. This paper draws on private personal archives, company records, holdings at the National Football Museum, national and local newspapers, and an in-house magazine, The Foden News, to situate the team within the context of Fodens Ltd and the wider context of women’s football in the 1960s and 1970s. The paper concludes by signposting the next phase of research, which will explore in detail the biographies of key individuals involved in the Fodens team during this period.     

Organised Cycling and Politics: the 1890s & 1900s in Battersea

I began to be interested in sports history as a result of undertaking a family history research commission into Percival Powell, a professional roller skating floor manager in the Edwardian roller-skating boom of 1908 to 1912. Many cyclists took up roller-skating with enthusiasm, there were races between cyclists and rinkers as the skaters were called, and there were ‘doom and gloom’ merchants deploring the adverse effect rinking was having attracting people away from cycling and other sports. The Society published an article by me on the boom in 1991.     

我国竞技体育利益格局及利益运行机制变迁

通过对计划体制下、改革至今以及将来我国竞技体育利益格局及利益运行机制变迁的研究及预测，揭示了我国计划体制下竞技体育是封闭式、纵向型的利益格局，利益运行几乎完全在系统内完成；改革以来，利益格局出现了分散化，但原有的利益格局并未被打破，利益运行机制出现了分散化、开放型的变迁；随着转型的深入，我国竞技体育利益格局将越来越分散化、横向化、“碎片化”，利益运行也越来越分散化，各利益主体参与利益分配的权力不断提高，高校竞技体育将形成自己的利益格局。     

解析建国初期“全民乒乓”运动的文化内涵

采用文献资料、逻辑推理、比较分析等研究方法,对上世纪50年代末至60年代初发生在我国的"全民乒乓"运动进行了文化学审视,发现在"全民乒乓"运动所引发的社会现象背后蕴含着具有中国特色的"体育英雄主义"、"民族主义"、"国家主义"等精神文化内涵,这些宝贵的精神文化遗产对我们继承、发扬和传播优秀的中国乒乓球文化以及社会主义精神文明建设都有重要的历史意义和现实意义.     

Tim Henman,British tennis and the social construction of English identity in the 1990s and 2000s

Tim Henman was inarguably the best English player, and the most popular and socially significant British player, since Fred Perry. Throughout his career, media constructions of him fluctuated from being heralded as a potential Wimbledon champion, to a weak, underachieving perennial loser. Throughout his career, and despite the constant transition of dominant narratives, Henman’s quintessential ‘Englishness’ remained a key component, expressed through his image, appearance, ostensible personality/character and playing style. His ‘Englishness’ was especially apparent against the backdrop of the Wimbledon Championships, which used Henman’s success in its marketing of ‘tennis in an English garden’. This paper assesses the shifting meanings behind, and values of, Henman’s sustained image, and examines how changes in the narratives of Henman as a player reflected broader shifts in English identity. It is argued that Henman played a significant role in how Englishness was constructed, both in Britain and abroad, during the 1990s and 2000s.     

The success culture of Nordic football: the cases of the national men’s teams of Norway in the 1990s and Iceland in the 2010s

Abstract

Every now and then – but with surprising regularity – small nations break through to the international level in sports and attract the attention of the global sports world. This paper focuses on two such occasions in men’s international football: the Norwegian national team in the 1990s and Iceland’s national team in the 2010s. We conducted case studies of the two teams, which consisted of interviews, observation of games and published material. The key emerging themes were how sport successes in Norway and Iceland took place amid the developing professionalism of sport, and how both teams built on important elements from amateurism and professionalism in their successful sporting conquests. We argue that some of the team’s characteristics were founded in a specifically Nordic mentality, which at the right time with the right message manifests in great achievements. Finally, the study follows the decay of the Norwegian national team in the new millennium and suggests that Icelandic football could face the same decline in results as Norway did 20 years earlier.     

海德格尔的存在主义思想与中国体育教育学研究

海德格尔的存在主义思想作为一种深刻的人本思想,重视人在研究中的地位与作用,关注人的生命价值,这与体育教育学的研究有着交集点。本研究运用文献资料法等,概要介绍了海德格尔的存在主义思想,并从海德格尔存在主义思想的视角就体育教育学研究中的概念理解、研究对象、研究内容、研究方法等基本理论问题进行了探讨,对中国体育教育学研究提出建设性意见。     

20世纪80—90年代中国运动心理学研究与发展述评

从 8个方面对 2 0世纪 80与 90年代中国运动心理学的发展进行了回顾。指出我国运动心理学研究时限长、影响大的亚范型研究主要集中在运动员的心理诊断、心理特征与选材以及运动员的心理咨询与心理训练这两大领域。并分别阐述了这两大领域内的主要研究成果 ,指出了存在的问题 ,并就未来研究的方向进行了展望。     

“南陈北李”之未刊墨迹——陈独秀、李大钊手迹收藏述略

在中国共产党成立85周年的日子里，翻阅笔者近几年所藏名人墨迹．其中有中共创始人和早期党员手泽数十件．现捡出“南陈北李”的手迹刊于此，以飨读者，以示纪念：     

Sex,drugs and science: the IOC’s and IAAF’s attempts to control fairness in sport

Abstract

This paper traces the history of two important policies in sport: rules against drugs and ‘ambiguous’ athletes in women’s events. We identify three phases in the work of the International Olympic Committee’s and International Amateur Athletic Federation’s medical committees: (1) from the mid-1960s to the 1970s, the medical grounding of the committees and the members’ worldviews encouraged the groups to enlist scientific techniques to solve drug use and sex ambiguity issues; (2) from the 1970s to the 1980s, administrative confusion underscored both committees, but scientific personnel gained legitimacy and furthered their own agendas; and (3) from the 1980s to the mid-1980s, the seeds of diversion in sex and drug tests were sown. The central finding of this study is that the stakeholders who shaped anti-doping and sex testing policies took for granted concerns regarding ethics and instead increasingly relied upon medical, scientific, and technical practices to define and control fairness in sport.     

Vive le defecteur!’ an analysis of the British media’s construction of Greg Rusedski’s national identity in the 1990s/2000s

ABSTRACT

This paper concerns the former professional tennis player from 1991 to 2007, Greg Rusedski, who was born in Canada but shifted national allegiance to Great Britain in 1995. Despite an impressive playing career, that saw him reach the US Open final in 1997 and attain a world-number-four ranking, alongside his steadfast efforts to ingratiate himself to the broader public, Rusedski’s British identity remained contested throughout his career. Focusing on four mainstream newspapers covering the political left and right, this paper analyses the British media’s treatment of Rusedski, and aims to develop an understanding of how his constructed identity as more or less ‘British’ fluctuated so markedly throughout his career. While his on-court results were certainly a factor in Rusedski’s swings between acceptance and rejection, this paper suggests a more nuanced analysis that takes into account, firstly, how Rusedski was positioned and characterised in relation to his countryman, the ‘quintessential Englishman’ Tim Henman, particularly in relation to his accent, ostensible personality, personal appearance and physique, and playing style, and, secondly, how Rusedski’s key period of success, in the latter half of 1997, can be contextualised in the light of broader socio-political events and developments.     

鉴定专家的泛化和神化

近年来，我国的艺术市场发展一方面带来艺术品交易额的大幅度飙升和“天价”的频频闪现，另一方面也给一些投机者打了一支兴奋剂，赝品横行、价格紊乱就是目前艺术市场存在的主要问题之一。而这个问题在很大程度上与鉴定专家的泛化与神化脱不了干系。     

对2012年伦敦奥运会我国乒乓球女队后备人才的技战术分析

运用文献资料法、数理统计法、录像观察法以及评球技战术三段指标评估对4名运动员的技战术进行分析.研究对象为:李晓霞、刘诗雯、丁宁、姚彦4名优秀乒乓球运动员.结果显示,她们在技术上各有特点和不足之处.随着世界乒乓球运动员整体实力的提高,我们要重新审视其技战术特点,制定出相应的策略.     

Drink and the Professional Footballer in 1890s England and Ireland

Alcohol played many roles in the life of the late Victorian footballer. While the licensed trade and the brewing industry provided much of the initial financial backing for the professional game, the direct relationship between players and drink was more problematic. The early professional was regularly cast as a drunkard in the press, and sometimes with good reason. However this may be the result of class prejudice and the failure of the middle-class men who ran and reported on the sport to reconcile themselves to the part alcohol played in working class culture, rather than to the genuine excesses of individuals.     

试论90年代小说的颠覆性和个性化品格

90年代小说在转型的背景中呈现出多向度的审美追求，其中对传统的叛逆和私语化写作具有鲜明的颠覆性和个性化品格。这种品格与中国学发展的自律性密切相关，并直接受到后现代主义的影响，也是美学转型的必然结果。从创作主体的内视角出发，可以解读出颠覆性和个性化品格所蕴含的多层面意义，从而对90年代小说作内在的整体性把握。     

王军霞、曲云霞破3000米跑世界纪录时的技术特征

采用影片解析与生物力学分析法,揭示了王军霞、曲云霞3000米跑的分段时间与速度节奏、步长与步频的变化规律、下肢支撑与摆动等主要技术特征。     

我国幼儿人群游戏与健身活动开展的现状与分析

为了进一步了解和掌握我国幼儿人群游戏和体操健身活动的现状,以便为我国幼儿人群运动健身科学指导方案的制定和健身效果的评价等关键技术研究提供理论依据,采用走访调研及专家访谈等方法,对我国11省13市的31所幼儿园进行了有关我国幼儿人群游戏与健身活动开展现状的调查研究。结果表明:游戏是幼儿园幼儿的最基本活动方式,健身活动包括幼儿体操、体育课、户外活动等,幼儿的走、跑、跳、投掷、钻爬、平衡等基本动作能力训练是活动的主要内容;但也存在一些问题,如游戏的形式化、教学化,体操及体育动作还缺乏较为科学的活动理念,幼儿体质监测的缺位等,也影响了幼儿人群健身活动的科学性和有效性。     

中国越野 路在自己脚下

赛场上。中国赛车和中国车手的表现一样出色，可是在核心技术方面。我们却又拿不出什么可以让世界叹服的东西来。参加达喀尔的国产车都是在欧洲改装的，就这么一个“改”字，就代表着至少十年的技术差距。