Sporting clubs [ Associational culture / Clubs & Societies ]
… the loss of the great patrons of the game (including Frederick, Prince of Wales) meant that the game had to reinvent itself, or at least its organisation had to evolve, if it was going to survive (there was competition from such games as … Club had sufficient wealth, land, political power, social prominence and elite position to impose its own dominant self-image on society at large.’ 6 When it was relaunched around 1750, having become moribund for a while, its members …
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