Category: Team Sports

Posted by Marco Giani | Feb 8, 2021 | Athletics, Fencing, Gender and Sport, Olympics, Società Italiana di Storia dello Sport [SISS], Swimming & Diving, Team Sports | 0

Flipping through Grazia’s Photo Albums: Flashbacks...

Posted by Marco Giani | Jan 18, 2021 | Archival Research, Football, Gender and Sport, Società Italiana di Storia dello Sport [SISS], Team Sports, Winter Sports | 0

From Clamorous to Charitable:
An Abbreviated History of the Baseline Bums

by David Galindo | Feb 22, 2021 | Basketball, Manchester Metropolitan Uni, Team Sports | 0

On December 26th, 2020 for the first time in their history, the San Antonio Spurs of the National...

1971 Women’s World Cup:
Interviews with Players
Carol Wilson
Captain of the Squad

by Ella Williams | Feb 20, 2021 | Focus on Fodens: History of Women's Football, Football, Gender and Sport, Podcasts, Team Sports | 0

Playing Pasts is delighted to present the latest in the series of 1971 Women’s World cup...

Women’s Football in Interwar Scotland:
Sadie Smith and the Legendary Rutherglen Ladies FC
Part 2

by Fiona Skillen and Steve Bolton | Feb 18, 2021 | Focus on Fodens: History of Women's Football, Football, Gender and Sport, Team Sports | 0

Introduction In part one of our article [which can be read HERE] we explored the developments of...

Women’s Football in Interwar Scotland:
Sadie Smith and the Legendary Rutherglen Ladies FC
Part 1

by Fiona Skillen and Steve Bolton | Feb 11, 2021 | Focus on Fodens: History of Women's Football, Football, Gender and Sport, Team Sports | 3

Rutherglen Ladies FC, Mr James H Kelly & Sadie Smith Women’s football in Scotland has a...

The Italian Job:
The role of Italian sportswomen in 1933 Turin International University Games

by Marco Giani | Feb 8, 2021 | Athletics, Fencing, Gender and Sport, Olympics, Società Italiana di Storia dello Sport [SISS], Swimming & Diving, Team Sports | 0

The 1933 edition of the International University Games (IUG) was held in Turin, from 1 to 10...

Flipping through Grazia’s Photo Albums:
Flashbacks from the Career of a 1940s-1950s Italian Figure Ice Skating Champion
Part 5

by Marco Giani | Jan 18, 2021 | Archival Research, Football, Gender and Sport, Società Italiana di Storia dello Sport [SISS], Team Sports, Winter Sports | 0

All images are taken from Archivio personale Giovanna Boccalini Barcellona (except where noted),...

A Brief History of Mixed Hockey before WWII:
The ‘Mixers’ Have Hockey’s Rulers All Mixed Up

by James Ormandy | Jan 7, 2021 | Gender and Sport, Hockey, Team Sports | 2

Men and women who played hockey together were dubbed “the mixers” by one newspaper and mixed...

“And then we were Boycotted”
New Discoveries about the Birth of Women’s Football in Italy [1933]
Part 10

by Marco Giani | Jan 3, 2021 | Archival Research, Athletics, Basketball, Focus on Fodens: History of Women's Football, Football, Gender and Sport, Società Italiana di Storia dello Sport [SISS], Team Sports | 0

The author would like to express thanks to: Luigi and Francesco Ferrari, Rosa Mottino, Francesco...

“And then we were Boycotted”
New Discoveries about the Birth of Women’s Football in Italy [1933]
Part 9

by Marco Giani | Dec 31, 2020 | Archival Research, Athletics, Football, Gender and Sport, Società Italiana di Storia dello Sport [SISS], Sport & Politics, Team Sports | 0

The author would like to express thanks to: Luigi and Francesco Ferrari, Marco and Silvia Bonitta,...

1971 Women’s World Cup:
Interviews with Players:
Part 3

by Ella Williams | Dec 26, 2020 | Focus on Fodens: History of Women's Football, Football, Gender and Sport, Podcasts, Team Sports | 0

Welcome to Episode 3! To listen to Episode 1 click HERE and Episode 2 HERE In this episode...

1971 Women’s World Cup:
Interviews with Players:
Part 2

by Ella Williams | Dec 19, 2020 | Focus on Fodens: History of Women's Football, Football, Gender and Sport, Podcasts, Team Sports | 0

Welcome to Episode 2! To listen to Episode 1 click HERE In this episode we’re chatting about...

“And then we were Boycotted”
New Discoveries about the Birth of Women’s Football in Italy [1933]
Part 8

by Marco Giani | Dec 14, 2020 | Archival Research, Focus on Fodens: History of Women's Football, Football, Gender and Sport, Team Sports | 0

The author would like to express thanks to: Luigi and Francesco Ferrari for the images taken from...

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