Rob Light
Biographic Data
| ID | 6556978 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rob Light |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rob |
| FAMILY NAME | Light |
| SIGNATURE | LIGHT R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Huddersfield |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘Ordinary working men … transformed into giants on the rugby field’
As a sport that partly owes its existence to the issue of ‘broken time’ payments, the working life of professional players outside rugby league is a highly symbolic issue for followers of the game. In England, financial reality meant that until the 1990s most players at professional level had to combine their career with full-time employment away from the sport, often in the communities they represented on the field. To many this helped create a …
A ‘Strange … Absurd … and Somewhat Injurious Influence’? Cricket, Professional Coaching in the Public Schools and the ‘Gentleman Amateur’ Ethos
This paper offers an insight into the changing social and economic relations in cricket between 1860 and 1914, by examining the role of professionals who were employed to coach the game in public schools. It highlights how professionals were widely respected before this period and pioneered the development of playing technique and its dissemination through coaching in a manner that ensured the game was played in a way that benefited their interes…
In a Yorkshire Like Way’
This paper examines how by 1900 cricket had come to be seen as an important representation of Yorkshire identity. It places the start of this process in the game's popular pre-modern context, as professional-centred, competitive, commercial cricket dominated its formative development across the region. The way these values led to local rivalries which became focused on the concept of a representative team building Yorkshire's status within the na…
Ten Drunks and a Parson’
By focusing largely upon the West Riding of Yorkshire and its contemporary local press, this paper examines the role of the professional player in nineteenth century cricket. It examines how they developed careers in cricket, as the sport's popularity grew on a local, national and international basis. These broadening opportunities are related to the predominance of professionals before the 1870s, when they contributed much to the way the sport w…
In a Yorkshire Like Way’
This paper examines how by 1900 cricket had come to be seen as an important representation of Yorkshire identity. It places the start of this process in the game's popular pre-modern context, as professional-centred, competitive, commercial cricket dominated its formative development across the region. The way these values led to local rivalries which became focused on the concept of a representative team building Yorkshire's status within the na…
Ten Drunks and a Parson’
By focusing largely upon the West Riding of Yorkshire and its contemporary local press, this paper examines the role of the professional player in nineteenth century cricket. It examines how they developed careers in cricket, as the sport's popularity grew on a local, national and international basis. These broadening opportunities are related to the predominance of professionals before the 1870s, when they contributed much to the way the sport w…
Ten Drunks and a Parson’
By focusing largely upon the West Riding of Yorkshire and its contemporary local press, this paper examines the role of the professional player in nineteenth century cricket. It examines how they developed careers in cricket, as the sport's popularity grew on a local, national and international basis. These broadening opportunities are related to the predominance of professionals before the 1870s, when they contributed much to the way the sport w…
In a Yorkshire Like Way’
This paper examines how by 1900 cricket had come to be seen as an important representation of Yorkshire identity. It places the start of this process in the game's popular pre-modern context, as professional-centred, competitive, commercial cricket dominated its formative development across the region. The way these values led to local rivalries which became focused on the concept of a representative team building Yorkshire's status within the na…
A ‘Strange … Absurd … and Somewhat Injurious Influence’? Cricket, Professional Coaching in the Public Schools and the ‘Gentleman Amateur’ Ethos
This paper offers an insight into the changing social and economic relations in cricket between 1860 and 1914, by examining the role of professionals who were employed to coach the game in public schools. It highlights how professionals were widely respected before this period and pioneered the development of playing technique and its dissemination through coaching in a manner that ensured the game was played in a way that benefited their interes…
‘Ordinary working men … transformed into giants on the rugby field’
As a sport that partly owes its existence to the issue of ‘broken time’ payments, the working life of professional players outside rugby league is a highly symbolic issue for followers of the game. In England, financial reality meant that until the 1990s most players at professional level had to combine their career with full-time employment away from the sport, often in the communities they represented on the field. To many this helped create a …
Media studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Amateur (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Cricket (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (3 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (3 works)