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Muscular Christian Gentlemen: Lacrosse as a Mass Spectator Sport
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Muscular Christian Gentlemen: Lacrosse as a Mass Spectator Sport
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A short social history of the sport of lacrosse in the late nineteenth century, and the role English Montrealers and Montreal-area teams played in making the game an inter-provincial rivalry with Toronto’s teams. The authors explain how the originally Indigenous game of lacrosse became a professional sport after George Beers, a McGill University professor, modernized and standardized the game’s rules in 1860, and how it became a popular spectator pastime with the advent of “cheap” public transportation. Notwithstanding that Beers claimed lacrosse produced “muscular Christian gentlemen,” it was also a very violent sport on and off the field, with intense team rivalries, extreme biases, gambling, and financial chicanery.
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Quebec Heritage News
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Vol. 17
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no. 4
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Fall 2023
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10-11
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en
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Allison, Sam, and Jon Bradley. “Muscular Christian Gentlemen: Lacrosse as a Mass Spectator Sport.” Quebec Heritage News, Fall 2023.
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