Soccer's Missing Men: Schoolteachers and the Spread of Association Football (Sport in the Global Society)

by Boria Majumdar (Series Editor), J.A.Mangan (Author), Colm Hickey (Author), Mark Dyreson (Series Editor)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $159.32

  Unknown or forgotten, influential schoolmasters took the game of association football to many parts of England. They brought the game to individual schools and they established regional and national leagues and associations. This story intends to allow a fundamental reappraisal of the status and position of these teachers in 20th century society.