KIN 2501 JACOBSEN UPDATED EXAM SCRIPT QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS FIRM A+
✔✔Negro League - ✔✔The Pittsburgh Crawfords, Homestead Grays, Birmingham
Barons, and Indianapolis Clowns were (Major League/Negro League) teams.
✔✔Gibson - ✔✔catcher in the Negro Leagues; compared to Babe Ruth
✔✔Bell - ✔✔renown base stealer in the Negro Leagues
✔✔Satchel Paige - ✔✔extremely talented pitcher; very flamboyant and humerous; Babe
Ruth of the Negro Leagues; "media darling"; called Satchel because as a young boy, he
would meet the trains every morning to carry people's satchels to work to earn a nickel
✔✔5 - ✔✔Satchel Paige pitched for over ________ decades in the Negro Leagues.
✔✔Kansas City Athletics - ✔✔At age 59 in 1965, Satchel Paige made an appearance at
________ to become recognized and draw money from Major League Baseball.
✔✔when Landis died - ✔✔When was Jackie Robinson able to break into Major League
Baseball?
✔✔basketball, softball, tennis - ✔✔What 3 sports did women play in the 1900s?
✔✔not able to have children - ✔✔What was thought to happen to women if they
engaged in vigorous physical activity?
✔✔female P.E. leaders - ✔✔Not only medical doctors, but ________ were also
discouraging interscholastic and competitive sport for females.
✔✔1912 - ✔✔When were women allowed to swim in the Olympics?
✔✔Babe Didrikson - ✔✔most significant female athlete of the first half of the 20th
century; came from Norwegian background; boys were scared of her because she was
a tomboy with muscles; gave birth to the modern female athlete; from east Texas; great
at every sport; secretary at Employers' Casualty Company; became professional athlete
✔✔Ladies Professional Golf Association - ✔✔Babe Didrikson helped found the
________ in 1947.
✔✔colon cancer - ✔✔How did Babe Didrikson die?
, ✔✔Rigley, Chicago Cubs - ✔✔In the 1940s and as WWII began to break out,
________, the owner of the ________, organized the All Americans Girl Baseball
League.
✔✔All Americans Girl Baseball League - ✔✔organization that lasted 10-11 years;
played competitively and drew in large crowds; league fell when money was embezzled
from the league; began to erode away the notion that females couldn't play sports
✔✔football - ✔✔________ was established as the college sport in the early 1900s.
✔✔U.S. military academies, army - ✔✔In the early 1900s, ________ evolved into
football powers, the ________ being the biggest of them all.
✔✔passing - ✔✔What was invented in football to reduce injuries?
✔✔fumble - ✔✔An incomplete pass was considered a ________ to be recovered by
either team in the early 1900s.
✔✔Notre Dame - ✔✔Who became "America's (football) Team" in the early 1900s and
beat Army?
✔✔bomb - ✔✔The "________" became a very effective and efficient offensive strategy
where receiver wouldn't break stride when catching the ball as a pass.
✔✔Rockne - ✔✔hired to coach Notre Dame; changed football as player and coach
because he'd have his teams travel all over
✔✔Minrice - ✔✔sports columnist; friends with Rockne; began promotion of Notre Dame
through the press
✔✔Thorpe - ✔✔Who was the well recognized and respected president of the American
Professional Football League?
✔✔American Professional Football League - ✔✔11 teams from blue-collar towns in
Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York; fan attendance was meager
✔✔Halas - ✔✔bought Decator team in American Professional Football League and
moved it to Chicago because he recognized playing in small cities wasn't going to cut it;
realized he needed to get notable college players to play professionally
✔✔University of Illinois, Grange - ✔✔George Halas was able to get the best player from
the ________, ________.
AND ANSWERS FIRM A+
✔✔Negro League - ✔✔The Pittsburgh Crawfords, Homestead Grays, Birmingham
Barons, and Indianapolis Clowns were (Major League/Negro League) teams.
✔✔Gibson - ✔✔catcher in the Negro Leagues; compared to Babe Ruth
✔✔Bell - ✔✔renown base stealer in the Negro Leagues
✔✔Satchel Paige - ✔✔extremely talented pitcher; very flamboyant and humerous; Babe
Ruth of the Negro Leagues; "media darling"; called Satchel because as a young boy, he
would meet the trains every morning to carry people's satchels to work to earn a nickel
✔✔5 - ✔✔Satchel Paige pitched for over ________ decades in the Negro Leagues.
✔✔Kansas City Athletics - ✔✔At age 59 in 1965, Satchel Paige made an appearance at
________ to become recognized and draw money from Major League Baseball.
✔✔when Landis died - ✔✔When was Jackie Robinson able to break into Major League
Baseball?
✔✔basketball, softball, tennis - ✔✔What 3 sports did women play in the 1900s?
✔✔not able to have children - ✔✔What was thought to happen to women if they
engaged in vigorous physical activity?
✔✔female P.E. leaders - ✔✔Not only medical doctors, but ________ were also
discouraging interscholastic and competitive sport for females.
✔✔1912 - ✔✔When were women allowed to swim in the Olympics?
✔✔Babe Didrikson - ✔✔most significant female athlete of the first half of the 20th
century; came from Norwegian background; boys were scared of her because she was
a tomboy with muscles; gave birth to the modern female athlete; from east Texas; great
at every sport; secretary at Employers' Casualty Company; became professional athlete
✔✔Ladies Professional Golf Association - ✔✔Babe Didrikson helped found the
________ in 1947.
✔✔colon cancer - ✔✔How did Babe Didrikson die?
, ✔✔Rigley, Chicago Cubs - ✔✔In the 1940s and as WWII began to break out,
________, the owner of the ________, organized the All Americans Girl Baseball
League.
✔✔All Americans Girl Baseball League - ✔✔organization that lasted 10-11 years;
played competitively and drew in large crowds; league fell when money was embezzled
from the league; began to erode away the notion that females couldn't play sports
✔✔football - ✔✔________ was established as the college sport in the early 1900s.
✔✔U.S. military academies, army - ✔✔In the early 1900s, ________ evolved into
football powers, the ________ being the biggest of them all.
✔✔passing - ✔✔What was invented in football to reduce injuries?
✔✔fumble - ✔✔An incomplete pass was considered a ________ to be recovered by
either team in the early 1900s.
✔✔Notre Dame - ✔✔Who became "America's (football) Team" in the early 1900s and
beat Army?
✔✔bomb - ✔✔The "________" became a very effective and efficient offensive strategy
where receiver wouldn't break stride when catching the ball as a pass.
✔✔Rockne - ✔✔hired to coach Notre Dame; changed football as player and coach
because he'd have his teams travel all over
✔✔Minrice - ✔✔sports columnist; friends with Rockne; began promotion of Notre Dame
through the press
✔✔Thorpe - ✔✔Who was the well recognized and respected president of the American
Professional Football League?
✔✔American Professional Football League - ✔✔11 teams from blue-collar towns in
Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York; fan attendance was meager
✔✔Halas - ✔✔bought Decator team in American Professional Football League and
moved it to Chicago because he recognized playing in small cities wasn't going to cut it;
realized he needed to get notable college players to play professionally
✔✔University of Illinois, Grange - ✔✔George Halas was able to get the best player from
the ________, ________.
