Continental drift my lecturers why he was not talking to us about continental drift and I was told, sneeringly, that if I could prove there was a force that could move continents, then he might think about it. The idea was moonshine, I was informed." As late as 1953 – just five years before Carey introduced the theory of plate tectonics – the theory of continental drift was rejected by the physicist Scheidegger on the following grounds. From the 1930s to the late 1950s, works by Vening-Meinesz, Holmes, Umbgrove, and numerous others outlined concepts that were close or nearly identical to modern
The Association for the Study of Play the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (then the University of Illinois) and an affiliate professor in the Department of Anthropology. The scholars who met there formed the "Cultural Anthropology of Play Reprint Society." The next year, Michael Salter organized the first formal meeting of the new organization at the University of Western Ontario during the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) convention. Participants renamed the organization "The Association for the Anthropological Study of Play" and elected B. Allan Tindall as president. In 1987, the organization changed its name to "The Association for the Study of Play" (TASP). The proceedings