Significance of Ancient to Medieval Sport to “Modern” Cdn Sport

• Upper class

• Men, fem exclusion

• Sports of war

• Codes of behaviour re amateurism, morality, Chivalry

• Beauty, excellence

• Spectacle

• *organization

• Festivals & pageantry

• Professionalism

• Entertainment

• Sport seldom for its own sake

• Religious conservatism

• Impulse to sport-play is timeless

*** See class handout re you ‘doing’ these ***

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