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Putney, Clifford. Muscular Christianity: Manhood and Sports in Protestant America, 1880-1920. . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003.

Solid study of how Protestant ideas about physicality and competition radically changed in the late 1800s as a way, in part, to foster social reform.

Citation Type: Book

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Pennsylvania Sports

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