Abstract：The study on sports fevers in the late Qing Dynasty is deficient in academia. During the late Qing Dynasty, the media attached great importance to sports, which was shown in the following aspects:emphasizing national sports, the place of sports in education, women sports and necessity of sports; at the same time, the whole country initiated the sports cause, such as governments 'advocating, set up of sports meetings and development of physical education at schools. One reason why sports fever came up is people's strong desire to build a powerful state and attempts to change Chinese's image of Sick Man of East Asia resorting to military force, therefore, sports are a carrier of people's responsibility of saving China from subjugation. The other reason is the influence of developed countries: model demonstration of western countries and Japan, introductions and researches of sports in western countries and Japan. In addition, people's need to keep healthy has a great effect.

Keyword：the late Qing Dynasty;sports fevers;militarism;