DCB/DBC Mobile beta
+

As part of the funding agreement between the Dictionary of Canadian Biography and the Canadian Museum of History, we invite readers to take part in a short survey.

I’ll take the survey now.

Remind me later.

Don’t show me this message again.

I have already taken the questionnaire

DCB/DBC News

New Biographies

Minor Corrections

Biography of the Day

Confederation

Responsible Government

Sir John A. Macdonald

From the Red River Settlement to Manitoba (1812–70)

Sir Wilfrid Laurier

Sir George-Étienne Cartier

Sports

The Fenians

Women in the DCB/DBC

The Charlottetown and Quebec Conferences of 1864

Introductory Essays of the DCB/DBC

The Acadians

For Educators

The War of 1812 

Canada’s Wartime Prime Ministers

The First World War

Sports Journalism
Original title:  L’ORGANISATION | Quebec Bulldogs | Page 2

Source: Link

 

In the 19th century, media coverage of sports and of the debates about them (see The Amateur Ideal and Professional Sports) increased considerably for a number of reasons: the rising popularity of sports; the proliferation of leagues and competitions arising from the development of organized sports; and the growth of mass media and the invention of the telegraph, which permitted the rapid transmission of sporting results. Greater attention to sports in the press resulted in separate sports sections in newspapers and the emergence of sports editors, as the biography of Henry John Prescott Wilshere GOOD explains:

“Good had begun work in Toronto in 1872 as a proof-reader for John Ross Robertson*’s Daily Telegraph. By November 1873 he had moved to the Mail, which, since 1 April 1872, had been publishing weekly, well-informed collections of ‘Sporting Intelligence’ on a single page. Despite the growing popularity of sports, most daily newspapers provided only brief notes scattered throughout their pages. The most extensive coverage was obtained in weeklies and monthlies such as the National Police Gazette and Harper’s, both from New York City. Good advanced at the Mail from proof-reader to reporter to night editor (1878), but he was likely responsible for the sports section from an early date, possibly even from its start. At the request of managing editor Thomas Charles Patteson he became the Mail’s full-time sports editor, North America’s first in the estimate of both the Globe and journalist Hector Willoughby Charlesworth*.”

 

In the following biographies one can trace the development of sports journalism and the expansion of sports coverage in Canadian print media:

 

◀◀  2 3 4 6 7 8  ▶▶