Judo in the United States however, the lecture had little effect on mainstream judo growth. The first American to actually study judo was Prof. Ladd from Yale University, in 1889. He trained at the Kodokan in Japan for about ten years; by 1908 about 13 Americans were training there. In 1919, Prof. John Dewey of Columbia University came to visit Prof. Ladd and Master Kano, many years later he took his knowledge back to Columbia and began the first U.S. college judo program. While some students were training in Japan there was some action in the U.S. Perhaps one of the most important figures in
Judo in Canada at the University of Ottawa, "Influences on the development of beliefs of Canadian expert judo coaches and their impact on action" (1998), describes the beliefs of Canadian Judo coaches and how these beliefs were represented in their actions during training. And finally, Michelle Rogers' MA thesis in Anthropology at the University of Victoria, "Twentieth Century Travels: Tales of a Canadian Judoka" (2005), examines the life of her father, Olympian Doug Rogers, and uses his story as a case study of how large-scale global processes can influence the life of an individual. Judo has not received widespread attention in Canadian television