NASSH Timeline

Marvin Eyler, who later successfully administers the creation of NASSH, receives his PhD under a “sport historian,” Seward Staley, at the University of Illinois.Marvin Eyler and Seward Staley discuss the potential of a sport history organization.Seward Staley is instrumental in creating a history of sport section of the National College Physical Education Association for Men (NCPEAM).Max Howell, a future NASSH president, becomes a professor at the University of Alberta, a Canadian institution that then turns out a number of early sport historians. He continues for the next eleven years at Alberta until moving to San Diego.Guy Lewis, a graduate student at the University of Maryland, first thinks about a “Society of Sport Historians,” while taking a seminar from Carl Bode, professor of American studies and English.AprilBruce Bennett of the Ohio State University is appointed historian for the American Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation (AAHPER), which does not include a section for the history of physical education and sport.July 30Guy Lewis completes his PhD at the University of Maryland under Marvin Eyler.January 17Guy Lewis, now at Penn State, outlines his society of sport historians idea to his former University of Maryland advisor Marvin Eyler. This would include an executive office, publications (including a journal), conventions, membership, a National Sports Library, and an international federation.February 22Seward Staley tells Guy Lewis that he has a “grand project” for a sport history organization and to “push ahead with this ”project.”Earle Zeigler, University of Illinois, responds to Guy Lewis, concerned that a history of sport group might be another splinter organization by “slicing the baloney too thin” among researchers in physical education.March 17Guy Lewis sets up a meeting at the AAHPER to discuss a sport history organization. Only three people attend. Another meeting is scheduled for March 20, but only four people show up: Marvin Eyler (Maryland), Guy Lewis (Penn State), Ace Moore (Illinois), and Seward Staley (Illinois).AprilBruce Bennett is asked by the AAHPER to hold a meeting at its convention to see how many individuals are interested in the history of physical education. Over sixty individuals attend.November 30Guy Lewis calls for a meeting of those interested in sport history to meet at the annual convention of the American Historical Association (AHA) in 1967.The AAHPER creates a specific History of Physical Education section.AprilBruce Bennett convenes a meeting at the AAHPER convention for those interested in physical education history, featuring individuals who have written histories of physical education, including himself, Mabel Lee, Deobold Van Dalen, and Arthur Weston.SpringThe First International Seminar for the History of Physical Education and Sport is convened by Uriel Simri at the Wingate Institute in Israel, with Bruce Bennett attending and representing the AAHPER.The AAHPER creates a specific History of Physical Education section.February 12Guy Lewis again proposes a society for sport historians at a convention of the AHA.AprilThe first official meeting of the AAHPER section on History of Physical Education is held at the AAHPER conference in Boston. John Betts, a cultural historian from Boston College, is the featured speaker, suggested to Bruce Bennett by Guy Lewis.Guy Lewis organizes a bus tour of important sport and physical education sites following the 1969 AAHPER conference in Boston. The tour includes the Springfield YMCA; Smith College; the NBA Hall of Fame and Museum; the Round Hill School, at which Bruce Bennett reads from his recent article; Amherst College; and Mount Holyoke.Alan Metcalfe, University of Windsor, establishes the first journal for sport history, the Canadian Journal of History of Sport and Physical Education (CJHSPE).MarchBruce Bennett and Seymour Kleinman of the Ohio State University organize the first Big Ten Symposium on the History of Sport and Physical Education in Columbus. The featured presenter is John Betts.November 24Alan Metcalfe offers to make CJHSPE the journal of NASSH, rather than to have two journals.December 2Marvin Eyler sends a memorandum to NCPEAM members raising six questions to be discussed at a special session on January 10, 1972, on the formation of a separate sport history organization. A major question is “Should we have an annual meeting to provide the proper locus for the reading of research done in this area?” Guy Lewis is the earliest promoter for an independent sport history organization and had asked his dissertation advisor Marvin Eyler for administrative help in setting up this meeting.December 28Guy Lewis, Jack Berryman, Alan Metcalfe, and John Mallea present papers on sport as social history at the AHA in New York City.January 10NASSH is formed at a meeting of the NCPEAM meeting in New Orleans, a special meeting of forty-two Americans and one Canadian (Alan Metcalfe) and chaired by Marvin Eyler. The vote to form NASSH is passed with four abstentions. Marvin Eyler is asked to select a Steering Committee to oversee the formal establishment of NASSH.February 8An eleven-person NASSH Steeering Committee is appointed by Marvin Eyler. It consists of Bruce Bennett (Ohio State); Thomas Davis (Boston College); Kevin Jones (York University); Guy Lewis (Massachusetts); John Lucas (Penn State); Marvin Eyler (Maryland); Betty McCue (Oregon); Mary Lou Remley (Wisconsin); Alan Metcalfe (Windsor); Ron Smith (Penn State); and Richard Wettan (Queens College).March 7Marvin Eyler sends out the first draft of the proposed NASSH Constitution to the Steering Committee.May 1–3NASSH is formalized as the NASSH Steering Committee meets at the Second Canadian Symposium on the History of Sport and Physical Education, University of Windsor, Ontario, led by Alan Metcalfe.June 15Marvin Eyler sends out the third draft of the proposed NASSH Constitution to the Steering Committee.NovemberMarvin Eyler opposes the publication of a journal of sport history at this time because he believes there are inadequate quality articles on the subject.January 6The NASSH Steering Committee meets for the second time at the NCPEAM conference. It formally adopts the constitution when voted on by Guy Lewis, John Lucas, Marvin Eyler, Ron Smith, and Ric Wettan. Six committees are established—budget, constitution, membership, nominations, program, and time and site.The NASSH seal, “Runner with a Torch,” is accepted for the constitution, a fifth BCE artifact from the Villa Guila Museum in Rome. It is reproduced from a photo by Max Howell, third NASSH president, and offered as the seal for NASSH by Ron Smith.The NASSH Steering Committee names three honor addresses for John Betts, Seward Staley, and Max Howell.The NASSH Steering Committee decides to publish the proceedings of the first NASSH conference in abstract form.The NASSH Steering Committee votes to make Penn State University Archives the repository of NASSH.The Steering Committee makes the president-elect of NASSH the representative to the International Council of Physical Education and Sport (ICPES).The Steering Committee decides to have a special student section at the first NASSH conference.May 24–27The first NASSH annual conference is held at the Ohio State University under the conference management of Bruce Bennett, with eighty-two people in attendance.May 24The NASSH Steering Committee votes unanimously to publish a Journal of Sport History, after a three-page proposal by Ron Smith to do so was discussed.Tape recording of NASSH meetings is started by Secretary-Treasurer Ron Smith.The first conference Book Display of sixty-six books is shown, procured by Ron Smith, setting the precedent for the next half-century.May 25Marvin Eyler is elected first president of NASSH by acclimation.Ellen Gerber, University of Massachusetts, moves to publish a refereed journal with “dispatch.”The elected officers of NASSH are President Marvin H. Eyler (Maryland); President-Elect Guy M. Lewis (Massachusetts); Secretary-Treasurer Ronald A. Smith (Penn State); Editor Alan Metcalfe (Windsor); and Members-at-Large Bruce L. Bennett (Ohio State), Betty F. McCue (Oregon), and Mary Lou Remley (Wisconsin).The first two honor awards are presented to Edwin B. Henderson and Seward C. Staley. Both receive the Honorary President award.May 26To encourage student involvement in NASSH, a special student section is held at the first NASSH conference.December 31NASSH membership, not including institutional members (libraries), reaches 221. NASSH's fund balance is $403.79.March 30Jack Berryman, representing NASSH, attends a “Specialized Societies and Affiliated Groups” held by the AHA in Washington, DC.MayThe first issue of the Journal of Sport History is published under the editorship of Alan Metcalfe of the University of Windsor.May 9–12The Second Annual NASSH Conference is held in Canada at the University of Western Ontario, London, with Bob Barney as the conference manager.May 9Marvin Eyler calls for operating codes to be drawn up by the chair of each standing committee for 1975.Guy Lewis proposes a sport history honors society, Circulus Honortorum (Praeclarus). It is later voted down at the annual business meeting whose members believe the idea too elitist. Of the approximately fifty-five members present, only seven vote in favor.April 16–19NASSH meets for the first time with a major history group, the Organization of American Historians, in Boston.April 16The NASSH Council rejects any formal affiliation with present sport history groups, principally aimed at two European sport groups, the International Association for the History of Physical Education (HISPA) and the International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education (ICSPE), which are considered cold war groups pushing their own political agendas rather than history.Honor awards are presented to John A. Krout, for his American sport history book, and Robert W. Henderson, a researcher who exposed the Abner Doubleday myth.FallThe first NASSH Directory of Scholars is completed under the editorship of Jack Berryman.December 31NASSH individual membership is recorded as Canada-37, Mexico-0, United States-270, and non-North American-16.June 15NASSH Council votes to expand the JSH from two to three issues per year.The NASSH Council votes to pay the expenses of non-NASSH members if they are chosen to be speakers for the Distinguished Lectures.The NASSH archival material becomes a permanent collection in the Penn State University Archives.May 17The NASSH Council announces the election of its first woman president, Mary Lou Remley, University of Wisconsin.Marv Eyler is asked by the NASSH Council to draw up a proposal for the incorporation of NASSH.After several years of discussion, the NASSH Affiliations Committee urges NASSH to consider periodic meetings with subdisciplinary societies. No action ensues.May 19It is announced that Alan Metcalfe will conclude his editorship of the JSH at the end of the year. Jack Berryman is chosen to succeed Metcalfe.May 20NASSH members vote to charge commercial units $100 for reprinting JSH articles.May 23The NASSH Council recommends that NASSH should be incorporated in the state of Maryland.November 29NASSH becomes incorporated as a Domestic Non-Stock Corporation in the state of Maryland.May 29The NASSH Council determines that, in the future, ties in NASSH elections votes would be settled by the Nominations Committee.The council discusses the question of the proliferation of sporting associations and the possibility of joint meetings, but the desire to hold an annual NASSH meeting without other groups dominates the discussion.May 30The only non–North American person attending the NASSH Conference is Roland Renson of Belgium.May 31The Publications Board investigates the possibility of NASSH publishing a sport history text for high-school students.JulyThe second Directory of Scholars is published, edited by Jack Berryman.May 26A Finance Committee is to be created to determine the best investments for NASSH savings, over $12,000 at this point.May 22The NASSH Council supports a Future Directions Committee Report to make an outstanding book in sport history as a to the Publications It would be three 22The membership opposes two commercial by the books NASSH and book at the annual and in the vote for the is with a in in the annual business meeting over NASSH should hold joint meetings with other sport and president Alan Metcalfe in NASSH's on as of a high-school book, a sport a conference on a special and a research on the of sport 17The NASSH Council establishes a for graduate moves to a of sport under the of becomes JSH following Jack Berryman.May 24The first becomes NASSH Council votes to conference council unanimously a to the of the JSH a of as other NASSH have a 23The NASSH in its savings, votes to from a only to of council votes to pay for a research to help the sport under the of Board recommends a for the best JSH 22The NASSH Council votes to a best book council votes not to have a best JSH award.May 24The membership votes to only two Distinguished and Howell, and to make the Staley the of an the NASSH and the Ohio in a council votes not to the Staley to the until after the historian of is an president award.May Book Committee proposes a book for books published in by a committee of with a of Ron Smith the question of the fund in other than of the council the NASSH Council votes to an not a to an meeting of sport groups, by the National Association for Physical Education in Education and the American for Health, Physical Education, and at the University of council votes to a JSH to be two the NASSH for many including the of from 22The operating of the Distinguished is accepted at the annual with three Distinguished a NASSH Council votes to the created by the AAHPER and to sport and physical education council again votes for a JSH for the best council votes to hold Distinguished after the membership votes at the annual business meeting that and members of the NASSH NASSH Council moves to two the NASSH for the and the NASSH of sport history council establishes a Committee to publish in the annual council a that the in publishing the JSH is NASSH and the joint meeting NASSH and the for Sport History is suggested for January by of University in a student to the NASSH Council is suggested at the annual business 22The NASSH Council the Journal of Sport History when the committee appointed to make the that is NASSH reaches in of the council that of that be in A committee of three is council unanimously opposes a of the Book Committee to the two rather than is chosen to be JSH that be to each council business meeting vote that NASSH members would rather meet on a a of and rather than in conference is held at the in with as the Sport Association meets with NASSH at the council has a about the student NASSH council votes not to hold its conference in because of the state question is at the annual business meeting NASSH should political questions as the The membership votes to the to the University of over student at the annual business meeting with a vote on the NASSH of NASSH are published in the annual proceedings for the of Howell, the NASSH Council the to the and International council votes to JSH for for to an for the council makes members of the council without Publications Board believes the publication of the JSH for the several years will be up to is by for the first annual meeting of NASSH are held on the Mary at of from Max is in Ron Smith recommends again the of NASSH in rather than Publications Board discusses JSH affiliation with a major NASSH Council creates a is chosen to be the JSH later than January annual business meeting votes to have the council consider of NASSH held in committee of three will to the NASSH Council council votes to make student conference of membership offers to help student expenses at the NASSH conference. This later becomes the for council votes to a annual business meeting is that NASSH have in a the for is by the members of the annual conference.December NASSH to over for the first the NASSH Committee of Ron Smith, and John two and hold NASSH The becomes the first graduate student are $100 to each of the graduate a NASSH Council votes to elections to help the annual council to with the the Canadian Historical and other 22The NASSH Council sets for of the council to the of to publish issues of the JSH and conference proceedings for an annual of with a time of four issues for the It would be after council votes to pay expenses of two NASSH members to 24The first to a NASSH meeting is who is a of the NASSH Council that the NASSH is of the of Western Ontario, but its own of council votes to pay the expenses of those the and Staley addresses in to the International 26A is at the NASSH Council to have at future NASSH question is at the annual business meeting about the of non–North Americans to vote and hold elected in NASSH Council votes unanimously to non–North Americans to be to vote and hold in the council the question of membership in NASSH to be to present at society council major of publishing the JSH on time and the and of JSH publishing council announces that has chosen as the next JSH committee of four is chosen to consider the question of the a a non–North Americans are membership in NASSH.The question of the annual conference over the is question of raising conference for members to for is at the annual of to the JSH for about per 24The NASSH is that the should an other official at NASSH.The over the proceedings be a an publication is for another year.The council discusses the possibility of publishing a NASSH and are the the proceedings only in an is It is considered for NASSH to do with a while the JSH is one in calls for a graduate student to the history of Ron Smith that the in publishing the JSH be a on and individual is passed at the annual business annual business meeting votes to fund from who are conference NASSH Council votes to provide to the JSH for International for the History of Physical Education and Sport a joint meeting with second book one for an edited is voted down by one of two NASSH members to have each conference at NASSH reaches an with NASSH Council has a on how to the JSH on possibility of a commercial as taking over the JSH is at the council votes to NASSH membership to present at council votes for NASSH to an edited book and votes for a book a of NASSH members about the history of NASSH publish the JSH a and by not a of the and in the United proposes that the of the Journal of Sport It in with the NASSH with in to of the JSH and conference 31NASSH are than 19It is that the of the is to make a and a at the NASSH Council for an of the including and the University of A Publications Board on of a for NASSH is to the The Publications Board recommends for publishing the JSH and conference council votes not to make the and that other be the to make council votes to an for the JSH and makes a with of the University for JSH to for a of from the NASSH Council votes to for expenses to council to publish the proceedings in and to have its with NASSH to with a to NASSH of is passed by the of the proposes the JSH committee to the proposal is with questions to be of the in the JSH is to the Publications Board for annual meeting is of major proposal for publishing the JSH and the its with the to publish issues of the JSH and NASSH proceedings in for a of 23The NASSH Council is in publishing the JSH on committee on to the council that, in a there is in with The council votes unanimously to with and council votes to with for an 31The in the United NASSH from about to 22The NASSH Council recommends with and for an council votes to a separate for the JSH to council moves to to University to per for by as JSH offers to help a history of for of NASSH is in is the of a is the first woman appointed to this NASSH Council to for of than is from the council votes to the operating codes on the NASSH about the now years is that is not first JSH issue on in is scheduled for NASSH history by and by with is announced that the JSH issue will be published on the first time in over a NASSH Council votes to to an form for future future of the by an committee of is discussed by the on the two is that from the journal are than the to a in institutional NASSH Council votes that an individual be a NASSH to present a at a NASSH is announced that is the of the of the two becomes committee is chosen to NASSH members to be the and with Ron Smith appointed and until the are NASSH Council to the business meeting that the was that individuals should not be for as journal and Barney a of at the annual M. Lewis, the in NASSH, in in NASSH are over is announced that the of L. to committee is appointed to form for the NASSH will to the committee for the and that has considered names and has chosen two to to the NASSH for (Penn and Thomas for council votes not to pay to the JSH Publications Board that four have considered for an for the Illinois, and with the University of Council will question of a convention is discussed by the Publications Board that is the JSH University of and NASSH on publishing the 22The Publications Board and JSH are concerned about the of JSH NASSH Council votes to the JSH convention council votes to a graduate to and by the conference JSH of the is passed by the JSH of the is passed by council votes to provide up to for the seminar in which will in a special issue of the standing Committee is NASSH is American Sport History is created with up to for researchers of American sport NASSH is of up to the business meeting about NASSH's taking a on the and of the reaches NASSH Council votes to provide for the first of the is of State first of the American Sport History is of the University of of the NASSH is three University of Penn and University of annual conference votes to form an committee to draft of and NASSH Council votes to provide for a council discusses a for with NASSH a is announced that Smith will the of JSH business meeting a to of and with two and four 31NASSH in are over the Distinguished and a committee of is with NASSH's NASSH Council two individuals council the Committee with a Directory of with is chosen to the first NASSH a is announced that has elected NASSH president and becomes the first non-North American to hold the NASSH is the and Ron Smith for members are that the University of for the conference has because of an The vote of the NASSH Council with the action to to This is the second NASSH action to sites to action by the first the action in NASSH meeting in is because of the 31NASSH in for the JSH as as for the first NASSH conference is including from the conference.December 31NASSH in special NASSH issue of the JSH is scheduled to be

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