Schuck and Crawford have stuck again!
This time publishing essays in a new collection titled American History Through American Sports: From Colonial Lacrosse to Extreme Sports (2012) that is published by ABC-CLIO Praeger.
Schuck contributed an essay titled "Reopening the Curtain on Rugby in America." Schuck, the faculty adviser for ONU's mens' and womens' ruby club teams, wrote about how U.S. National Rugby Teams defeated international competition in the 1920s, but interest in the sport waned as the Olympics did away with it as an event. Rugby's popularity is, however, on the rise again.
Crawford contributed the first essay in the three volume set titled "America Plays: Sports in Colonial Times that traces the development of American sports as played by Native Americans, the four main British immigrnt groups, and African slaves. Crawford has published several entries, articles, and his own book The Use of Sport to Promote the American Way of Life During the Cold War: Cultural Propaganda, 1946-1963 published in 2008 by the Edwin Mellen Press.
This volume is the second compilation that Schuck and Crawford have published chapters or essays in during the past year. A few months ago, Schuck and his son Ray I Schuck edited and contributed chapters, and Crawford also contributed a chapter, in Do You Believe in Rock and Roll: Essays on Don McLean's American Pie.
The essays incorporate U.S. history with sport history and will make good reading, or so Schuck and Crawford hope!
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