SPTM 225 Exam 1 – Study Guide, Revision Notes, and Practice Questions for Exam
Preparation
Athletic activities were first organized and run by students, but by 1881 Princeton University
formed the first faculty committee to gain control of college athletics from students. Reasons for
the formation of this committee included each of the following EXCEPT:
- Concern over the injuries and deaths in football.
- The desire to create more opportunities for women and minorities.
- The fear among many educators that, as the continent was settled and as the nineteenth
century drew to a close, American society would become soft.
- The potential for publicity and cultivation of off-campus constituencies. - correct answer
✔✔The desire to create more opportunities for women and minorities.
According to Henri Fayol, management must perform which five key functions?
- Planning, organizing, contending, commanding, and coordinating.
- Planning, ordering, commanding, coordinating, and controlling.
- Planning, organizing, commanding, coordinating, and controlling.
- Preparing, organizing, commanding, coordinating, and controlling. - correct answer
✔✔Planning, organizing, commanding, coordinating, and controlling.
Which of the following does NOT include three functions that Henry Mintzberg identified as key
managerial roles?
- Disturbance handler, facilitator, spokesperson
- Figurehead, leader, disseminator
- Liaison, resource allocator, monitor
- Monitor, negotiator, entrepreneur - correct answer ✔✔Disturbance handler, facilitator,
spokesperson.
,The 1984 Supreme Court decision in Grove City College v. Bell was a blow to Title IX
enforcement of college athletic departments because it ruled that __________.
- Athletics was noneducational and therefore Title IX did not apply.
- A "programmatic approach" should be taken, and only those programs that receive direct
federal funding had to comply with Title IX.
- Private institutions and all of their programs and offices are exempt from Title IX.
- Because Grove City College was an NCAA Division III institution, it did not offer athletic
scholarships and therefore Title IX did not apply to its athletic department. - correct answer
✔✔A "programmatic approach" should be taken, and only those programs that receive direct
federal funding had to comply with Title IX.
Which of the following organizations challenged the NCAA's efforts to control women's sports in
the 1980s?
- AIAW
- AAPHER
- CIAW
- DGWS - correct answer ✔✔AIAW
Each of the following events occurred in 1905, leading up to the formation of the NCAA, EXCEPT:
- Efforts by Walter Camp to promote the forward pass in football.
- A meeting of school leaders, convened by New York University Chancellor Henry McCracken, to
discuss violence in football.
- President Theodore Roosevelt's summoning of coaches from Harvard, Princeton, and Yale to
the White House to lobby their programs to reform football.
- The death of Union College football player Harold Moore. - correct answer ✔✔Efforts by
Walter Camp to promote the forward pass in football.
Which of the following has been identified as the first professional intercollegiate athletic
coach?
, - Bill Bradley
- Walter Camp
- Bill Reid
- William Wood - correct answer ✔✔William Wood
The traditional definition of management includes each of the following EXCEPT:
- Responsibility for performance.
- The coordination of human, material, technological, and financial resources needed for an
organization to achieve its goals.
- The designing of the tasks and organizing of the work to be done.
- The provision of a sense of direction and purpose that can unify diverse people in a productive
enterprise. - correct answer ✔✔Responsibility for performance.
Which of the following does not describe elements of the first intercollegiate athletic contest?
- Boat races took place between crews from Harvard and Yale.
- The contest occurred on a river in Vermont in 1903.
- The contest was sponsored by a local railroad company.
- For their efforts, the victors took home a handsome pair of black, silver-tipped walnut oars. -
correct answer ✔✔The contest occurred on a river in Vermont in 1903.
Of the following, who was NOT a major non-White figure in early intercollegiate athletics?
- Thom Gossom, Jr.
- Fritz Pollard
- Paul Robeson
- Jim Thorpe - correct answer ✔✔Thom Gossom, Jr.
Preparation
Athletic activities were first organized and run by students, but by 1881 Princeton University
formed the first faculty committee to gain control of college athletics from students. Reasons for
the formation of this committee included each of the following EXCEPT:
- Concern over the injuries and deaths in football.
- The desire to create more opportunities for women and minorities.
- The fear among many educators that, as the continent was settled and as the nineteenth
century drew to a close, American society would become soft.
- The potential for publicity and cultivation of off-campus constituencies. - correct answer
✔✔The desire to create more opportunities for women and minorities.
According to Henri Fayol, management must perform which five key functions?
- Planning, organizing, contending, commanding, and coordinating.
- Planning, ordering, commanding, coordinating, and controlling.
- Planning, organizing, commanding, coordinating, and controlling.
- Preparing, organizing, commanding, coordinating, and controlling. - correct answer
✔✔Planning, organizing, commanding, coordinating, and controlling.
Which of the following does NOT include three functions that Henry Mintzberg identified as key
managerial roles?
- Disturbance handler, facilitator, spokesperson
- Figurehead, leader, disseminator
- Liaison, resource allocator, monitor
- Monitor, negotiator, entrepreneur - correct answer ✔✔Disturbance handler, facilitator,
spokesperson.
,The 1984 Supreme Court decision in Grove City College v. Bell was a blow to Title IX
enforcement of college athletic departments because it ruled that __________.
- Athletics was noneducational and therefore Title IX did not apply.
- A "programmatic approach" should be taken, and only those programs that receive direct
federal funding had to comply with Title IX.
- Private institutions and all of their programs and offices are exempt from Title IX.
- Because Grove City College was an NCAA Division III institution, it did not offer athletic
scholarships and therefore Title IX did not apply to its athletic department. - correct answer
✔✔A "programmatic approach" should be taken, and only those programs that receive direct
federal funding had to comply with Title IX.
Which of the following organizations challenged the NCAA's efforts to control women's sports in
the 1980s?
- AIAW
- AAPHER
- CIAW
- DGWS - correct answer ✔✔AIAW
Each of the following events occurred in 1905, leading up to the formation of the NCAA, EXCEPT:
- Efforts by Walter Camp to promote the forward pass in football.
- A meeting of school leaders, convened by New York University Chancellor Henry McCracken, to
discuss violence in football.
- President Theodore Roosevelt's summoning of coaches from Harvard, Princeton, and Yale to
the White House to lobby their programs to reform football.
- The death of Union College football player Harold Moore. - correct answer ✔✔Efforts by
Walter Camp to promote the forward pass in football.
Which of the following has been identified as the first professional intercollegiate athletic
coach?
, - Bill Bradley
- Walter Camp
- Bill Reid
- William Wood - correct answer ✔✔William Wood
The traditional definition of management includes each of the following EXCEPT:
- Responsibility for performance.
- The coordination of human, material, technological, and financial resources needed for an
organization to achieve its goals.
- The designing of the tasks and organizing of the work to be done.
- The provision of a sense of direction and purpose that can unify diverse people in a productive
enterprise. - correct answer ✔✔Responsibility for performance.
Which of the following does not describe elements of the first intercollegiate athletic contest?
- Boat races took place between crews from Harvard and Yale.
- The contest occurred on a river in Vermont in 1903.
- The contest was sponsored by a local railroad company.
- For their efforts, the victors took home a handsome pair of black, silver-tipped walnut oars. -
correct answer ✔✔The contest occurred on a river in Vermont in 1903.
Of the following, who was NOT a major non-White figure in early intercollegiate athletics?
- Thom Gossom, Jr.
- Fritz Pollard
- Paul Robeson
- Jim Thorpe - correct answer ✔✔Thom Gossom, Jr.
