"MUSCULAR CHRISTIANITY" was a system which relied upon sport to allow people to grow in a moral and spiritual way along with their physical development. It was thought that

... in the playing field boys acquire virtues which no books can give them; not merely daring and endurance, but, better still temper, self restraint, fairness, honor, unenvious approbation of another's success, and all that 'give and take' of life which stand a man in good stead when he goes forth into the world, and without which, indeed, his success is always maimed and partial [Kingsley cited from Haley, in Watson et al].1

This system of thought held that

a man's body is given him to be trained and brought into ...

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