The Rise of American High School Sports and the Search for Control: 1880-1930

by Robert Pruter

Nearly half of all American high school students participate in sports teams. With a total of 7.6 million participants as of 2008, this makes the high school sports program in America the largest organized sports program in the world. Pruter's work traces the history of high school sports from the student-led athletic clubs of the 1800s through to the establishment of educator control of high school sports under a national federation by the 1930s...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815633149
• ISBN13: 9780815633143
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.2"