Muscular Christianity

Muscular christians believed that by participating in games and sports, young men would be instilled with positive character traits. There seems to be a lot of toxic masculinity wrapped up in this cause. In 18 68, a year before rutgers beat princeton in the first ever college football contest, one american muscular christian wrote, there is a precise discipline in danger. I consider no man educated who is not educated to meet danger, grapple with it and conquer it. And any system of gymnastics which leaves out danger is an emasculated system. If you can't die doing it, which is my attitude towards a good party,. You know what? I don't i don