Industrial And Post Industrial Development Of Sport (1780-1900)

Question 1

Rationalised sports

Answer 1

-rational suggests that a level of order, logic and structure began to be applied to sports such as football, reflecting a more ordered industrially based society

Question 2

Rational recreation

Answer 2

Respectability 
Rule based
Impact of religion 
Officials 
Regularly played
Purpose built factories 
Skills based 
gambling controlled
Amateurism and professionalism

Question 3

Negative effects of rationalised sports during the first half of the the 19th century

Answer 3

• lack of leisure time
• migration of the lower classes into cities- lack of space to play mob football
• lack of income
• lack of public provisions
• poor health
• loss of rights- restrictions were placed on mob games

Question 4

HITFOR

Answer 4

H- poor HEALTH and HYGIENE 
I- lack of INCOME
T- lack of TIME
F- FACILITY provision was lacking
O- OVERCROWDING and lack of space
R- loss of RIGHTS

Question 5

Characteristics of industrialisation (1780-1850)

Answer 5

Poor health- lack of hygiene, poor health can’t play sport
Lack of income
Long working days- sabbath followed, Sunday day of rest
Lack of public provision- no facilities or equipment for lower class
Migration of lower classes into urban areas- less space for recreational past times
-loss of rights- restricted mob games due to ‘criminal activity’

Question 6

Improvements in the 2nd half of industrial revolution (1850-1900)

Answer 6

• ex public school boys, via industry (church helped
• industrial patronage
• increase of wages and time for sport
• communication
• values of athleticism
• improved health, public baths helped stop spread of disease
• 3 tier society

Question 7

‘Factory Act’

Answer 7

• (more time for sport)

- Saturday half-days provided to the workers

Question 8

Development of middle class

Answer 8

• Became more respectful and was played at a high moral code
• they developed strict rules, leagues and competitors
• council provided facilities/public parks

Question 10

Industrial patronage

Answer 10

Kind factory owners becoming patrons of sport for the working class. Led to provisions for recreation and sport- factory teams were set up, sporting facilities were provided and excursions to the seaside were organised.

Question 11

Advances in travel

Answer 11

Developments of roads and steam trains influenced the distance spectators could travel, also became cheaper to travel making spectating more accessible. Fixtures and results published in newspapers

Question 12

Wenlock Olympian Games (1850)

Answer 12

In 1850, the wenlock agricultural reading society (WARS) resolved to form a class called the Olympian class which was set up to promote moral, physical and intellectual improvements, especially in the lower-class people of wenlock