大日本体育協会のアマチュアリズムに関する一考察 ─第8回オリンピック・パリ大会における日本代表選手選考過程に着目して─

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to clarify the thought of the Amateurism of The Japan Amateur Athletic Association in the 1920s. Our study focused on three points: 1) Clarifying the actual condition of The Japan Amateur Athletic Associationʼs Eligibilities around 1920. 2) Clarifying The Japan Amateur Athletic Associationʼs reactions about Eligibilities around 1920. 3) Clarifying the process of loosening eligibility at the selection of the Japanese delegates at the Games of the Ⅷth Olympiad, Paris. Then clalyfying the factors of it. Our conclusions were as follows. The factors of loosening the selection of the Japanese delegates at eligibility at the Games of the Ⅷth Olympiad, Paris was financial pressure by Great Kanto Earthquake.