ontributor in the history of sport psychology was a University of Illinois psychologist, Coleman Roberts Griffith. As early as 1900, he taught the introductory course in his discipline and became interested in what motivated the athletes in his classes. He developed the first sport psychology course in 1923 and the first laboratory devoted to research in 1925. Griffith also wrote two books: Psychology of Coaching (1926), and Psychology of Athletes (1928). Griffith is known as the "father of sport psychology." After he left the field in the 1930s, little transpired from the 1930s to the mid-1960s. Then, in 1967, the establishment of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity (NASPSPA) came
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