The 1960 Rome Summer Olympics: birth of a new world? / Barbara Keys. The invention of sporting tradition: national myths, imperial pasts and the origins of Australian rules football / Tony Collins -- From evil to expedient: the legalization of professionalism in English football, 1884-85 / Dave Russell -- Peacefully at Wembley Stadium on 20 April 1974: the quiet death of amateur football in England / Dilwyn Porter -- Rough, manly sport and the American way: Theodore Roosevelt and college football, 1905 / Michael Oriard -- Baseball, invented tradition, and nationalistic spirit / Gerald R. Gems -- 'Her dainty strength': Suzanne Lenglen, Wimbledon and the coming of female sport celebrity / Stephen Watt -- Before and after 1968: reconsidering the introduction of drug testing in the Olympic Games / Ian Ritchie -- The 'Revolt of the Black athlete': Tommie Smith and John Carlos's 1968 Black Poser Salute reconsidered / Maureen Margaret Smith -- The D'Oliveira affair: Cricket, 'race' and politics / Rob Steen -- The physical activism of Billie Jean King / Jamie Schultz -- John L. Sullivan: the champion of all champions / Elliott J. Gorn -- The 'Packer affair' and the early marriage of television and sport / David L. Andrews and Andrew D. Grainger -- All these years of hurt: culture, pedagogy and '1966' as a site of national myths / Michael L. Silk and Jessica Francombe -- The 1960 Rome Summer Olympics: birth of a new world? / Barbara Keys.
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