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Meeting at Springfield’s Fields
from Part IV - The Pivot
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 November 2023
“Possibilities” explores contingency in history by following Japanese, Chinese, and Filipino athletes and physical educators on their parallel journeys to Springfield College in the 1920s. Over the course of the decade, some of the leading figures in athletics from the Philippines and China, such as Regino Ylanan and John Mo, studied at the famous center for physical education research in the United States. When they returned to their respective home countries, they moved into positions of power and influence in their respective fields, serving at leading universities and publishing articles and monographs on athletics and kinesiology. They also continued to engage with the Far Eastern Championship Games, serving as coaches and organizers. This chapter shows how Filipino and Chinese educators sought to expand their expertise and help lead their respective nations toward a more prosperous future. In so doing, it hints at the possibility that existed for deeper and longer-lasting collaborations between people from the two polities. This chapter heightens the drama of the final chapter, which traces the moment when many Springfield Alumni gathered in Manila in 1934 to coach teams for the tenth and final Far Eastern Championship Games and to decide the fate of future competitions.
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