Inventing the Boston Game: Football, Soccer, and the Origins of a National Myth by Tallec Marston, Kevin

Inventing the Boston Game: Football, Soccer, and the Origins of a National Myth

On Boston Common stands a monument dedicated to the Oneida Football Club. It honors the site where,...
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Author: Kevin Tallec Marston
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Inventing the Boston Game: Football, Soccer, and the Origins of a National Myth by Tallec Marston, Kevin

Inventing the Boston Game: Football, Soccer, and the Origins of a National Myth

€77,29

Inventing the Boston Game: Football, Soccer, and the Origins of a National Myth

€77,29
Author: Kevin Tallec Marston
Format: Paperback
Language: English

On Boston Common stands a monument dedicated to the Oneida Football Club. It honors the site where, in the 1860s, sixteen boys played what was then called the "Boston game"--an early version of football in the United States. The boys were largely the sons of upper-class Boston Brahmins, and they lived through the transformative periods of the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Gilded Age. Later as they grew old, in the 1920s, a handful of them orchestrated a series of commemorative events about their boyhood game. Benefitting from elite networks developed through the city's social and educational institutions, including Harvard University, they donated artifacts (such as an oddly shaped, battered black ball) to museums, deposited self-penned histories into libraries and archives, and erected bronze and stone memorials, all to elevate themselves as the inventors of American football (and later, by extension, soccer). But was this origin story of what, by then, had become one of America's favorite games as straightforward as they made it seem or a myth-making hoax?

In Inventing the Boston Game, Kevin Tallec Marston and Mike Cronin investigate the history of the Oneida Football Club and reveal what really happened. In a compelling, well told narrative that is informed by sports history, Boston history, and the study of memory, they posit that these men engaged in self-memorialization to reinforce their elite cultural status during a period of tremendous social and economic change, and particularly increased immigration. This exploration of the Club's history provides fascinating insight into how and why origin stories are created in the first place.

Author: Kevin Tallec Marston, Mike Cronin
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 12/31/2024
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.15w x 0.78d
ISBN: 9781625348425

About the Author

Kevin Tallec Marston is Research Fellow at CIES (Centre International d'Etude du Sport / International Center for Sports Studies) and Visiting Researcher and Lecturer at the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University. His writings on sports have appeared in edited collections and journals such as Contemporary European History and the International Sports Law Journal.

Mike Cronin is Academic Director, Centre for Irish Programmes at Boston College, Dublin. His publications include Sport: A Very Short Introduction.

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