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The Oxford companion to Australian sport

Title
The Oxford companion to Australian sport / edited by Wray Vamplew [and others].
Publication
Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

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Additional Authors
  • Vamplew, Wray.
  • Australian Society for Sports History.
Description
xiii, 575 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
"Now appearing in a fully revised and greatly expanded second edition, The Oxford Companion to Australian Sport is a unique encyclopaedic reference. All aspects of Australian sport are covered in over 1000 entries - the history of every sport ever played in Australia, leading sportsmen and women, institutions, medals, venues, famous contests, eccentrics and controversies. A key feature of the Companion is the biographical entry - succinct, informative and authoritative. Shane Warne, Raelene Boyle, David Campese, Pat Cash, Betty Cuthbert, Gary Ablett and the Chappell brothers all rub shoulders in this sporting pantheon. The Companion also contains a series of major essays on crucial aspects of the history, professionalisation and unique temperament of Australian sport." "The second edition, once again prepared by Australia's leading sports historians under the auspices of the Australian Society for Sports History, contains many new features. These include an important new section comprising 25 lists of key sporting results - Melbourne Cup, Sheffield Shield and Davis Cup winners, and Olympic, Commonwealth and Brownlow medallists, to name just a few. Approximately 240 new biographies have been introduced, along with many more entries on clubs, sports and prizes."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • Sports > Dictionaries > Australia
  • Athletes > Australia > Biography
  • Athletes
  • Sport
  • Geschichte
  • Sportler
  • Biografie
  • Wörterbuch
  • Sport
  • Australia
  • Australien
Genre/Form
Biographies.
Note
  • "The Australian Society for Sports History."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 530-566).
ISBN
  • 0195535685
  • 9780195535686
LCCN
94240551
OCLC
  • ocm32664948
  • 32664948
  • SCSB-2076758
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library