Month: June 2017

STAPS is the acronym for the Science and technology of physical activities and sports (Science and Techniques in Sports and Physical Activity) and is published through an initiative of the French Association for Research in Sport and Physical Activity (ATRAPS). This multidisciplinary Francophone journal publishes original academic research on physical activities and sport in the field of human and social sciences. For some 30 years, STAPS’s mission has been to encourage scientific analysis of the practice, institutions, and actors in sport and/or physical education. An international scientific journal with its own reading committee, STAPS publishes articles in both French and English by...

Resistance to the use of professional coaches in British athletics during the first half of the twentieth century has been well documented[1] and an ongoing preference for amateur coaching from one’s peers was clearly evident in the year before the Berlin Olympics. In February 1935, a number of amateur coaches were appointed to instruct at the Loughborough summer school for athletics, including R. St. G. Harper for hurdles, J. Cotter for the javelin, J.E. Lovelock for running events, M.C. Noakes for the hammer, R.L. Howland for the shot put, and R.W. Revans for the long jump.[2] Howland was a...