A Cross-Cultural, Interdisciplinary Study of Sports and American Character

FAIN: FT-13190-76

Allen Guttmann
Amherst College (Amherst, MA 01002-2372)

To research historical development, sociology, and psychology of sports to determine why some sports are peculiarly American and what this means .in regard to the American character. Comparing the German enthusiasm for gymnastics which America has only recently become intenegled in through conversations and studies of periodicals in Germany