TY  - GEN
T1  - From football to soccer : the early history of the beautiful game in the United States
T2  - Sport and society.
A1  - Bunk, Brian D., 1968-
LA  - English
PP  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1232011036
AB  - "Across North America, native peoples and colonists alike played a variety of kicking games long before soccer's emergence in the late 1800s. Brian D. Bunk examines the development and social impact of these sports through the rise of professional soccer after World War I. As he shows, the various games called football gave women an outlet as athletes and encouraged men to form social bonds based on educational experience, occupation, ethnic identity, or military service. Football also followed young people to college as higher education expanded in the nineteenth century. University play, along with the arrival of immigrants from the British Isles, helped spark the creation of organized soccer in the United States-and the beautiful game's transformation into a truly international sport. A multilayered look at one game's place in American life, From Football to Soccer refutes the notion of the U.S. as a land outside of football history"--
OP  - 280
CN  - GV944.U5 B86 2021
SN  - 9780252052781
SN  - 0252052781
SN  - 9780252043888
SN  - 9780252085871
KW  - Soccer : United States : History : 19th century.
KW  - Soccer : United States : History : 20th century.
KW  - Soccer : Social aspects : United States.
KW  - Soccer : Aspect social : États-Unis.
KW  - SPORTS & RECREATION / General
KW  - Soccer
KW  - Soccer : Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - 1800-1999
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - History
ER  -