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Chicago Seminar on Sport and Culture at the Newberry Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Carolyn Bonner February 20, 2008 (773) 442-4240
c-bonner@neiu.edu
**Free and open to the public
Legendary Sportswriter Caspar Whitney featured in the Chicago Seminar on Sport and Culture at the Newberry Library
WHAT: Tara Kathleen Kelly, Mayers Fellow, Huntington Library, will appear in the Chicago Seminar on Sport and Culture at the Newberry Library to address the role of Caspar Whitney, the most popular and influential sportswriter at the turn of the century.
WHERE: Newberry Library, 80 W. Walton in Chicago
WHEN: Friday, March 7 at 3:30 p.m.
DETAILS: Caspar Whitney is the creator of the all-American football team in the 1880s, author of the “Amateur Sport” column at Harper’s Magazine and co-owner and editor of Outing Magazine. The lecture titled “Tales of Class and Character: Caspar Whitney and the Policing of Amateurism and Sportsmanship, 1888-1913,” will focus on exploring Whitney’s popularity, and the ways in which he promoted amateurism and sportsmanship.
Whitney was widely regarded as the leading expert on amateur athletics in United States illuminating a less-well-known narrative of sport, one which used the rules of amateurism in sport, and sportsmanship in hunting, to draw lines among middle- and upper-class players. Whitney allowed middle-class sport to function as a way in which men could perform for audiences of their peers, to judge and be judged in their business and social dealings.
For more information, contact Steve Riess, professor, history, Northeastern Illinois University at (773) 442-5631 or s-riess@neiu.edu.
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