Transcript Beginning of Organized Sports in America

Beginning of Organized
Sports in America
Where it all began…
• The history of organized _______ in the
United States begins with the New York
____________________ in the l840s.
• The Knickerbockers, a social club much like
a modern country club, was composed of
professional men
(_________________________________).
• The group formed the first known baseball
club; one writer stated, "This was the first
time in American history that grown men put
on costumes and played a child's game".
Collegiate Sports
• The history of collegiate sports in American life can
be traced from ___________________________
engaged in perhaps the first team sport on the
continent, lacrosse.
• The male students in colleges first played team
games as extracurricular diversions from their
studies and the rigid and confining rules of the
mostly ______________ oriented schools. The
sports were usually played as class competitions;
and although less organized and controlled than
today's sports, they were similar to modern
intramural sports programs.
• The earliest sports that developed in the male
colleges were student organized, governed, and
controlled. Because only the _______________
people could afford to attend college, it was they
who were _______________ to engage in sports.
Collegiate Sports Cont.
• And because only _____________ were allowed
to attend institutions of higher education before the
1850s, sports for women developed later and with
an entirely different purpose.
• Intercollegiate sports for men began in 1852 with a
rowing contest between _________ and
________. That first contest was sponsored by a
railroad company, and men's intercollegiate sports
from that first encounter have been as much
related to commercial enterprise as to educational
endeavor. After that Yale versus Harvard rowing
contest, a New York newspaper predicted that
intercollegiate sports would “____________
___________________________________."
Collegiate Sports Cont.
• The emergence of women's sports was quite different from that of
men. Society was much less ________________ of the notion of
women athletes. Whereas the highly skilled male athlete became
a _______________, the highly skilled female was more often
ridiculed or _____________.
• In the mid-nineteenth century, sports outside the collegiate world
for upper-class girls and women consisted primarily of proper
activities, such as ____________________________________.
Women's sports were acceptable to society _______if they were
considered social affairs, promoted health, were noncompetitive,
and were not strenuous enough to require a special costume.
• The _______________, however, unleashed women from social
restrictions in the late 1890s more than any sport. The bicycle
demanded special attire to protect women's voluminous skirts from
becoming entangled in wheel chains, and it also freed women to
travel on their own without a ___________________to drive the
carriage. The bicycle, although approved more for the working girl
than the debutante, promoted the divided skirt, which was the
precursor to shorts and long pants that eventually ____________
______________________________________________________
Collegiate Sports Cont.
Women's sports were born and raised
through the matriarchal hands of women
physical educators whose objective was to
promote recreational sports for all girls while
prohibiting highly competitive sport for any.
The women leaders in physical education
proclaimed through the 1960s that their goal
was “____________________________
_________________________________."
Professional Sports
• The United States was formed on _________
ideas, and certainly sports in America reflect
the greater society.
• ____________ to players has been used to
distinguish amateurs from professionals in
the United States. The earliest sign of
professional sports in the United States was
the baseball players of the mid-nineteenth
century charging gate receipts to spectators
and then dividing the money among them.
• ___________________________were the
front runners in organized professional sports
in the _________________________.
Professional Sports
• Boxing…Jack Johnson…
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Professional Sports
• Because ____________________
prohibited black and white players on the
same team, African Americans formed
their own baseball teams beginning in the
1880s. They barnstormed across the
country, playing each other and
occasionally having special games against
the ___________________________.
Professional Sports
• Negro League baseball was successful by the
________________, and by the 1930s both
_______________________________________
Leagues were formed. Most successful of the
Negro League teams were the
____________________ and the
____________________ of western
Pennsylvania. Although Negro League baseball
never achieved the financial stability of white
organized baseball, it produced some of the
greatest players in history.
• Players such as
________________________________________
________________________________________
had baseball skills that equaled the white players
of Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Walter Johnson, and
Dizzy Dean.