ABSTRACT
The study investigates the sports cultural practices in Capixaba society in the period between 1946 and 1954. As a documentary corpus, uses two newspapers circulated in the capital of the Espírito Santo and the Aloyr Queiroz de Araújo File. Uses the propositions of Norbert Elias and Roberto Da Matta to think the object in its different forms and meanings, emphasizing the so-called civilizing principle, which seeks to be a drives controller, desires and individuality . It relies also on evidential paradigm Ginzburg that, through evidence and clues left in the documents, make us understand part of Capixaba sports culture and its relationship with the School Olympics. Points out the School Olympics as part of Culture Sports Capixaba, conveyed by the press of the period, giving visibility to a new approach to the sport that happens in schools. A phenomenon that seeks, through sport, bringing together the various regions of the Espírito Santo, immigration, were different cultures. Thus, the sport appears as homogenizer element and catalyst of a culture that is cosmopolitan.
Keywords:
Sports culture; Sport; School olympics.