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The Emergence of Modern Sport

From amateurism to professionalism and commercialisation

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  • AS Unit 1

Overview

Amateurs and professionals, the defence of amateurism, spectatorism, the Football Association and professionalism, the broken-time debate and the 1895 split, cricket's amateurs and professionals, and the early Olympics.

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Key term

What is an amateur in sport?

Key term

What is a professional in sport?

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Why did the middle and upper classes defend amateurism?

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  1. 1

    What is an amateur in sport?

    Model answer

    An amateur is a performer who takes part for enjoyment and receives no payment. Amateurism was the ideal of the Victorian middle and upper classes.

  2. 2

    What is a professional in sport?

    Model answer

    A professional is a performer who is paid to take part. Professionals rely on sport for their living.

  3. 3

    Why did the middle and upper classes defend amateurism?

    Model answer

    The middle and upper classes believed sport should be played for its own sake. Amateur rules also kept working-class professionals out of their competitions.

  4. 4

    How did spectatorism move sport in a new direction?

    Model answer

    Large paying crowds gave clubs a regular income from gate money. Gate money allowed clubs to pay players.

  5. 5

    When did the Football Association legalise professionalism?

    Model answer

    The Football Association legalised professionalism in 1885. Northern clubs had been paying players secretly.

  6. 6

    What was the broken-time debate in rugby?

    Model answer

    Northern clubs wanted to compensate working-class players for wages lost while playing. The Rugby Football Union refused to allow broken-time payments.

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