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Notes, commentaries, essays

God, games and national glory: thanksgiving and the ritual of sport in American culture, 1876–1926

Pages 242-249 | Published online: 07 Mar 2007

Notes

  • Davis , Richard Harding . 1893 . ‘The Thanksgiving Game’ . Harper's Weekly , 37 : 1170
  • Smith , Ronald A. 1988 . Sports and Freedom: The Rise of Big‐time College Athletics , New York : Oxford University Press .
  • 1899 . Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions , New York : Macmillan .
  • Davis . “ ‘Thanksgiving Game’ ” . 1170
  • 1893 . New York Herald , 30 Nov. : 6
  • 1892 . Young Men's Era , Vol. 18 , 1012 a YMCA publication .
  • Hobsbawm , E. J. 1987 . The Age of Empire, 1875–1914 , 149 New York : Vintage .
  • Hobsbawm , E. J. 1983 . “ ‘Mass‐Producing Traditions’ ” . In The Invention of Tradition , Edited by: Hobsbawm , E. J. and Ranger , T. O. 299 – 300 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
  • Orr , William . 1909 . ‘An American Holiday’ . Atlantic Monthly , 103 : 788
  • Oriard , Michael . 1991 . Sporting with the Gods: The Rhetoric of Play and Game in American Culture , 11 – 12 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
  • Shaler , N.S. 1889 . ‘The Athletic Problem inEducation’. Atlantic . Monthly , 63 : 79 – 88 .
  • Camp , W. 1888 . ‘The American Game of Football’ . Harper's Weekly , 24
  • Zelinsky , Wilbur . 1988 . Nation Into State: The Shifting Symbolic Foundations of American Nationalism , Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press .
  • 1990 . Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality , New York : Cambridge University Press .
  • Anderson , Benedict . 1983 . Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism , London : Verso Books .
  • Lowell's , James Russell and Kammen , Michael . 1991 . The Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture , 254 New York : Alfred Knopf .
  • Schmidt , Leigh Eric . 1991 . ‘The Commercialization of the Calendar: American Holidays and the Culture of Consumption, 1870–1930’ . Journal of American History , 78
  • Kazin , Michael and Ross , Steven J. 1992 . ‘America's Labor Day: The Dilemma of a Workers’ Celebration’ . Journal of American History , 78
  • Goksoyr , Matti . 1988 . ‘Popular Pastimes or Patriotic Virtues?: The Role of Sport in the National Celebrations of Nineteenth‐Century Norway’ . International Journal of the History of Sport , 5 : 238 – 46 .
  • 1927 . ‘The Fall War Game’ . The Outlook , 2 Nov. : 269
  • Gettell , Raymond G. 1917 . ‘The Value of Football’ . American Physical Education Review , 22 : 138 – 42 .
  • Potter , David M. 1954 . People of Plenty: Economic Abundance and the American Character , Chicago : University of Chicago Press .
  • James O. Robertson's discussion of the Thanksgiving story in his American Myth, American Reality New York Hill & Wang , 1980 ), pp. 15 – 18 .
  • Siskind , Janet . 1992 . ‘The Invention of Thanksgiving: A Ritual of American Nationality’ . Critique of Anthropology , 12 : 176
  • Zelinsky . Nation Into State 81
  • Wilson , John F. 1979 . Public Religion in American Culture , 56 – 63 . Philadelphia : Temple University Press .
  • 1900 . ‘A Historic Game of Football’ . Youth's Companion , 74 : 625 – 6 .
  • 1887 . ‘Yale Wins the Pennant’ . New York Daily Tribune , 25 Nov. : 1 – 2 .
  • 1887 . ‘This Week in Society: Football and Thanksgiving Items’, and ‘She Goes to Football’ . New York Daily Tribune , 27 Nov.
  • 1893 . ‘The Crimson Triumphs’ . Atlanta Journal , 1 Dec. : 3
  • 1895 . Chicago Tribune , 29 Nov. : 13
  • 1990 . ‘College Athletic Conferences and American Regions’ . Journal of American Studies , 24 : 211 – 21 .
  • Rooney , John F. 1974 . A Geography of American Sport: From Cabin Creek to Anaheim , 38 – 42 . Reading : Addison‐Wesley .
  • Reed's , Herbert . 1916 . ‘The Big Game’ . Independent , 88 observations
  • 1904 . ‘Football By Indians at World's Fair’ . New York Times , 27 Nov. : 10
  • 1910 . New York Times , 25 Nov.
  • 1914 . New York Times , 27 Nov. : 8
  • 1919 . Chicago Daily Tribune , 28 Nov. : 10
  • 1919 . Examiner's coverage , 25 Nov.‐1 Dec.
  • Moss , Edward Bayard . 1912 . ‘The Eve of the Big Football Game’ . Leslie's Illustrated Weekly Newspaper , 14 Nov. : 494
  • Benjamin , Park . 1903 . ‘Public Football vs. Naval Education: In Defense of the Naval Academy’ . Independent , 55 : 2777 – 9 .
  • Ruhl , Arthur . 1907 . ‘The Army‐and‐Navy Game’ . Outing Magazine , 49 : 305 – 6 . 308
  • 1919 . New York Times , 23 Nov.
  • Painter's , Nell Irvin . 1987 . Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877–1919 , 344 – 80 . New York : W. W. Norton .
  • 1926 . New York Times , 28 Nov.
  • Wilson , Warren H. 1892 . ‘College Department’ . Young Men's Era , 18 : 1554

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