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The first foray into sports history in Australia took place at a conference organised by the University of New South Wales in 1977. "Sporting Traditions" conferences were later organised in 1979 and 1981. It was at the fourth Sporting Traditions conference in 1983 that the Australian Society for Sports History was founded. The Society's first president was Colin Tatz (1985-87) and the Society launched the first issue of its journal, Sporting Traditions, in November 1984. Wray Vamplew was the first editor of Sporting Traditions and is credited with being the driving force behind ASSH in its early days. Since then it has grown to be one of the largest sports history organisations around the world, incorporating members largely from Australia and New Zealand but also from countries globally. The aims of ASSH are: · to promote, stimulate and encourage discussion, study, research and publications on sporting traditions with special reference to Australia; · to organise meetings and workshops and to publish materials that advance interest and scholarship in the area of study; · to liase with individuals and institutions having an interest in the aims of the Society. For a detailed overview of ASSH's history, please click on the following articles. Return
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1985-1987
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ASSH Book Award (first awarded in 2007)
2007 Keys, Barbara J. (2006). Globalizing sports: national rivalry and international community in the 1930s. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
2007 Special Commendation: Douglas Booth, The Field: Truth and fiction in sport history. London: Routledge
2009
2009
2011
ASSH Edited Book Award (first awarded in 2009)
ASSH Fellows
1993 Wray Vamplew* 2003 John O'Hara
2003 Colin Tatz (click here to read the
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* Awarded "ASSH Honorary Life Member" which preceded the ASSH Fellow Award
ASSH Service Awards
1997
Imke Fischer 2011 Tara Magdalinski
ASSH Postgraduate Essay Prize (first awarded in 2007)
2007 Mark O’Neill, University of Queensland, ‘An “Aristocracy of Sport”; Phar Lap, Harry Telford, David Davis and Popular Cultural Narratives of the Australian Turf’.
ASSH Student Essay Prize
1985 Debra Bryant, ‘To What Extent Did Sport in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Britain Become More of a Business and Less of a Sport?’, Flinders University.1
1986 Shane Breen, ‘An Assessment of the Validity of Sports History as a Legitimate Form of History’, Tasmanian Institute of Technology.2
1987 Leonie Randall, ‘Was the Professional Sportsman in Britain Between 1870 and 1914 Less a Labour Aristocrat and More a Wage Slave?’, Flinders University.3
1988 Sherrie Forby, ‘In Defence of Women’s Bodies in Sport’, Flinders University.4
1989 The judges considered that no entry submitted was of sufficient merit to justify an award.
1990 The judges considered that no entry submitted was of sufficient merit to justify an award.
1991 Darren Alexander ‘An Examination of the Victorian Newspapers’ Portrayal of John Landy’s Attempts at the Four Minute Mile Between 1952 and 1954’, La Trobe University.5
1992 No entries were submitted.
1993 The examiners decided not to grant a prize.
1994 No information is available.
1995 Paul Spencer, ‘A Discussion of Appeasement and Sport as Seen in the Manchester Guardian and the Times’, La Trobe University.6
1996 Sonia Jennings, ‘Women and Gambling in Australia: Attitudes and Practices, 1860-1950’, University of Melbourne.7
1997 Loretta Costello, ‘The Picture Perfect Day: A Phenomenology of Rowing’, Victoria University of Technology.8
1998 Whitney Brown, ‘Societal Values, Olympic Values: Technology and the Environment in the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games’, University of New South Wales.9
1999 Stacey Angelides, ‘The Identification and Marginalisation of “Deviant Bodies” in Sport’, University of the Sunshine Coast.
2000 No information is available.
2001 Sonsia Jiang, ‘Upping the Ante: Antitrust, Anti-Competitive, and Exclusionary Practices in Australian Sport’, University of New South Wales.
2002 No information is available.
2003 No information is available.
2004 No information is available.
2005 No information is available.
ASSH Honours Dissertation Prize
1987 Mark Connellan, ‘The Ideology of Athleticism, its Antipodean Impact, and its Manifestation in Two Elite Catholic Schools’, University of Sydney, 1985 [Prize awarded in 1987].10
1988 George Lekakis, ‘Shifting Play from defence into Attack: Television, Corporate Bodies and the VFL’s Commercial Thrust Forward’, University of Melbourne.
1989 David Montefiore, ‘Cricket in the Doldrums; The Struggle Between Private and Public Control of Australian Cricket in the 1880s’, School of History, University of New South Wales.11
1990 Veronica Raszeja Wood, ‘The Rise of Women’s Competitive Swimming in Sydney to 1912’, University of New South Wales.12
1991 The selection committee decided not to award a prize.
1992 No entries were submitted.
1993 Tara Magdalinski, ‘The Continuity of German Sports Functionaries Following the Second World War’, University of Queensland.
1994 Charles Little, University of New South Wales.
1995 Duncan Humphreys, ‘Shredheads go Mainstream? An Introduction to the Social History of Snowboarding’, Otago University.13
1996 Robert Macdonald, ‘A Study of the Australian Football League's Labour Market Control Mechanisms’, Unpublished honours thesis, Department of Management and Industrial Relations, University of Melbourne.
1997 Rebecca Sheehan, ‘Boxing Dreams: Class, Ethnicity and Gender in the Hollywood Boxing Film’, University of New South Wales.
1998 No information is available.
1999 Anna Spurling, ‘Hooligans or Fans? Violence and Culture in Association Football Since the Second World War’, Deakin University.
2000 No information is available.
2001 Jackie Hartley, ‘Black, White … and Red? The Redfern All Blacks Rugby league Club in the Early 1960s’, University of New South Wales.
2002 Naomi Shannon, ‘The Friendly Games?; Politics, Protest and Aboriginal Rights at the XII Commonwealth Games, Brisbane 1982’, Department of History, La Trobe University.14
2003 Brad Blashak, ‘“The Ignorant Labelled it a Ladies’ Game”: Masculinity in Australian Tennis in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries’, University of Queensland.15
2004 Mark O’Neill, ‘Artefacts of the Present: Monuments to Indigenous Athletic Heroes in Australian Social Memory’, School of Human Movement Studies, University of Queensland.16
2005 Rachel Winterton, “‘For ‘Duty and Pleasure”: The Development of Competitive Swimming in Victoria, 1900-1908’, School of Human Movement, Recreation and Performance, Victoria University.17
2006 Susannah Ritchie, ‘From Absence to All-Stars: An Exploration into Australian Rules Football Culture in the Darwin Area, 1916–2006’, University of Melbourne.
NOTES
1. Published as Debra Bryant, ‘To What Extent Did Sport in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Britain Become More of a Business and Less of a Sport?’, ASSH Bulletin, no. 3, April/May 1986, pp. 2-14.
2. Published as Shane Breen, ‘An Assessment of the Validity of Sports History as a Legitimate Form of History, ASSH Bulletin, no. 5, April 1987, pp. 3-8.
3. Published as Leonie M. Randall, ‘Was the Professional Sportsman in Britain Between 1870 and 1914 Less a Labour Aristocrat and More a Wage Slave?’, ASSH Bulletin, no. 7, April 1988, pp. 3-23.
4. Published as Sherrie Forby, ‘In Defence of Women’s Bodies in Sport’’, ASSH Bulletin, May 1989, pp. 7-18.
5. Published as Darren Alexander, ‘An Examination of the Victorian Newspapers’ Portrayal of John Landy’s Attempts at the Four Minute Mile Between 1952 and 1954’’, ASSH Bulletin, no. 17, September 1992, pp. 2-14.
6. Published as Paul A. Spencer, ‘A Discussion of Appeasement and Sport as Seen in the Manchester Guardian and the Times’, ASSH Bulletin, no. 25, December 1996, pp. 3-19.
7. Published as Sonia Jennings, ‘Women and Gambling in Australia: Attitudes and Practices, 1860-1950’, ASSH Bulletin, no. 27, December 1997, pp. 1-9.
8. Published as Loretta Costello, ‘The Picture Perfect Day: A Phenomenology of Rowing’, ASSH Bulletin, no. 29, December 1998, pp. 3-8.
9. Published as Whitney Brown, ‘Societal Values, Olympic Values: Technology and the Environment in the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games’, ASSH Bulletin, no. 31, December 1999, pp. 13-20.
10. Published as Mark Connellan, The Ideology of Athleticism, its Antipodean Impact, and its Manifestation in Two Elite Catholic Schools, Australian Society for Sports History, Adelaide, 1988.
11. Published as David Montefiore, Cricket in the Doldrums: The Struggle Between Private and Public Control of Australian Cricket in the 1880s, Australian Society for Sports History, Campbelltown, 1992.
12. Published as Veronica Raszeja, A Decent and Proper Exertion: The Rise of Women’s Competitive Swimming in Sydney to 1912, Australian Society for Sports History, Campbelltown, 1992.
13. An article drawn from this thesis was published as Duncan Humphreys, ‘Snowboarders: Bodies out of Control and in Conflict’, Sporting Traditions, vol. 13, no. 1, November 1996, pp. 3-23.
14. Published as Naomi Shannon, ‘The Friendly Games?; Politics, Protest and Aboriginal Rights at the XII Commonwealth Games, Brisbane 1982’, in Ian Warren (ed.), Buoyant Nationalism: Australian Identity, Sport, and the World Stage, 1982-1983, Australian Society for Sports History, Melbourne, 2004, pp. 1-57.
15. Published as ‘“The Ignorant Labelled it a Ladies Game”: Masculinity in Australian Tennis in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries’, in Ian Warren (ed.), Gender, Theory and Sport: The Formative Years of Tennis and Snowboarding, Australian Society for Sports History, Melbourne, 2005, pp. 1-54.
16. An article drawn from this thesis was published as Mark E. O’Neill, ‘Remembering Johnny Mullagh: Australia’s History Wars and Shifting Memories of an Aboriginal Cricketer’, in Rob Hess (ed.), Making Histories, Making Memories: The Construction of Australian Sporting Identities, Australian Society for Sports History, Melbourne, 2006, pp. 1-21.
17. An article drawn from this thesis was published as Rachel Winterton, ‘The Kieran Legacy: The Development of Competitive Swimming in Melbourne, 1900-1908’, in Rob Hess (ed.), Making Histories, Making Memories: The Construction of Australian Sporting Identities, Australian Society for Sports History, Melbourne, 2006, pp. 23-38.
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Sporting Traditions
1984 Wray Vamplew 1985 Wray Vamplew 1986 Wray Vamplew 1987 Wray Vamplew 1988 Wray Vamplew 1989 Wray Vamplew/John O'Hara 1990 John O'Hara 1991 John O'Hara 1992 John O'Hara 1993 Richard Cashman 1994 Richard Cashman 1995 Richard Cashman 1996 Richard Cashman 1997 Richard Cashman 1998 Richard Cashman 1999 Richard Cashman/John O'Hara 2000 John O'Hara 2001 John O'Hara 2002 John O'Hara 2003 Rob Hess 2004 Rob Hess 2005 Rob Hess 2006 Rob Hess 2007 Rob Hess 2008 Lionel Frost 2009 Lionel Frost 2010 Lionel Frost
ASSH Studies
1986-1988 Wray Vamplew 2001-2003 Daryl Adair 2004-2005 Ian Warren
2006-2008 Rob Hess
ASSH Bulletin
1985 Ian Jobling 1986 Ian Jobling 1987 Ian Jobling 1988 Ian Jobling 1989 Chris Harte 1990 Braham Dabscheck 1991 Braham Dabscheck 1992 Braham Dabscheck 1993 Braham Dabscheck 1994 Braham Dabscheck 1995 Braham Dabscheck 1996 Braham Dabscheck 1997 Braham Dabscheck 1998 Braham Dabscheck 1999 Braham Dabscheck/Tara Magdalinski 2000 Tara Magdalinski 2001 Tara Magdalinski 2002 Tara Magdalinski 2003 Tara Magdalinski 2004 Tara Magdalinski 2005 Tara Magdalinski 2006 Tara Magdalinski 2007 Tara Magdalinski 2008 Tara Magdalinski 2009
Tara Magdalinski
Website Editor 2005 Tara Magdalinski 2006 Tara Magdalinski 2007 Tara Magdalinski 2008 Tara Magdalinski 2009
Tara Magdalinski
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1977 Sydney, NSW, hosted by the University of New South Wales 1979 Sydney, NSW, hosted by the University of New South Wales 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 Launceston, TAS 1995 Brisbane, QLD, hosted by The University of Queensland 1997 Perth, WA, hosted by Edith Cowan University 1999 Queenstown, NZ, hosted by the University of Otago 2001 Adelaide, SA. 2003 Sydney, NSW, hosted by the Australian Catholic University 2005 Melbourne, VIC, hosted by Victoria University
2007 Canberra, ACT, hosted by the University of
Canberra
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