Geneive Claude left a comment asking about Ellen White’s view on sports.
In his book Ellen White’s World, George Knight has a passage about sports in Ellen White’s day.
Starting on page 130, he writes that around the late 1800’s leisure became more of a reality for the common folk. Before that time, most people spent much of their time working. They did not have time for leisure activities.
However, with the inventions of time-saving machines, the common people had less working hours and more time for leisure activities. Two of these leisure activities were watching and participating in sports.