Introduction / Neil Carter -- A 'Strange .../ Absurd .../ and Somewhat Injurious Influence'? Cricket, Professional Coaching in the Public Schools and the 'Gentleman Amateur' Ethos / Rob Light -- London Swimming Professors: Victorian Craftsmen and Aquatic Entrepreneurs / Dave Day -- From Knox to Dyson: Coaching, Amateurism and British Athletics, 1912-1947 / Neil Carter -- Stigmatized, Marginalized, Celebrated: Developments in Lawn Tennis Coaching, 1870-1939 / Robert J. Lake -- Amateurism and the Rise of Managerialism: The Case of Rugby Union, 1871-1995 / Tony Collins -- The Athlete in the Making: The Scientific Study of American Athletic Performance, 1920-1932 / Alison M. Wrynn -- Football's Engineers? British Football Coaches, Migration and Intercultural Transfer, c.1910-c. 1950s / Matthew Taylor.
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This text examines the history of coaching from the early 19th to the late 20th-century. It uses a number of sports as case studies that includes: cricket, swimming, rugby union, athletics, football and tennis. The focus is largely English but international examples are used to illuminate the British context.