Hockey In The Early 1900's

In the newspaper I have selected, the articles discuss a number of sports that were played in Canada in the early 1900’s. I will focus on the hockey articles in this first paragraph and argue how hockey as a sport has shaped society to be a hegemonic one. To begin, I will summarize the hockey articles discussed in the newspaper and bring up what I thought is important not only to how sports was reported and looked at but as well how sports shapes society and as well sets gender norms. In the first article Varsity Trims a Composite Senior Team By Score of 20-6, it talks about college hockey and how a varsity team defeated a composite team 20-6 to take home the Collegiate championship. Throughout this article the writer outlines what happened during …show more content…
This article also shows that sport is a place to reinscribe male power and domination and fetishize the male body and masculine physical power. Sport at this time heavily excluded women and relegated them to the private sphere. In the early 1900’s Hockey was quite an expensive game to play and therefore, was a sport intended for white middle class males. Sport was a forum to exhibit manliness both physically and gentlemanly. Sports like hockey, rugby and boxing helped shape Canada to be a hegemonic society. In the first lecture we discussed how certain sports produce class hierarchies, proof of this is throughout history people of lower class populations would play cheap sports such as: boxing, billiards and different versions of football, while middle class populations would play sports like: hockey and cricket. This also explains why sports like soccer were so popular back in the 18th and 19th century. Overall, after looking at the hockey article in the sports section of the newspaper we see how sport has shaped society to be hegemonic by excluding women from participating in physical sports like