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American Sports and the Great War - College, Military and Professional Athletics, 1916-1919 (Paperback)
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American Sports and the Great War - College, Military and Professional Athletics, 1916-1919 (Paperback)
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Drawing on newspaper accounts, college yearbooks and the
recollections of veterans, this book examines the impact of World
War I on sports in the U.S. As young men entered the military in
large numbers, many colleges initially considered suspending
athletics but soon turned to the idea of using sports to build
morale and physical readiness. Recruits, mostly in their twenties,
ended up playing more baseball and football than they would have in
peacetime. Though most college athletes volunteered for military
duty, others replaced them so that the reduction of competition was
not severe. Pugilism gained participants as several million men
learned how to box.
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