ABSTRACT
Sports historians search for changes that sports phenomena have undergone as a result of events in society, and also expose those mechanisms with which sport has, conversely, made its mark over the course of history. The reciprocal impact of military and sporting developments at and around the Western Front in the First World War is the common focus of the articles in the first section of this issue. The time and location of the research subject are very well-defined, and yet, or maybe because of this, the reader is persuaded of the quintessence and historical relevance of sport and its associated hegemonic masculinity.
