History of Sports - Exam 1
Sporting man - ANS-person who flaunted the rules of gentlemen
Sporting people (men and women) were known as - ANS-physically fit and respectable
Sports are now a ___________ enterprise. - ANS-Multi-billion dollar
Professional teams are valued at? - ANS-500 Million to 3 Billion
Annual budgets for teams routinely exceed? - ANS-200 million
Major college athletic programs have an annual budget of? - ANS-30 million to 150
million
Betting is estimated _________ per year - ANS-$4 billion
Prior to 1960, there were only _____ scholarly books written on Sports American
History - ANS-3
in 1970, __________ wrote, Playing for Keeps: A History of Early baseball -
ANS-Warren Goldstein
Sport History didn't become a emerging study until? - ANS-1972
Native American sports included? - ANS-Archery, Running, Horse Riding, and Lacrosse
The cost of losing a game was high? - ANS-Lacrosse/players were buried with
equipment
Angelicanism - ANS-horse racing and tennis
Calvinism - ANS-amusement and game forbidden
Puritanism - ANS-- no dancing, drinking, gambling or violent sports
- allowed archery, swimming, fishing, hunting
- sports were judged and allowed based on practicality
, Primitive football - ANS-movement of the ball wad through narrow streets, across fields
and water courses to the opponents church
Which college was the first to have hunting and fishing? - ANS-Harvard
Southern colony sports consisted of? - ANS-Horse racing, gambling, blood sports,
prizefighting
Blood sports - ANS-boxing, dog fights, bear baiting
Prizefighting - ANS-"illegal but allowed
Christopher Lilly (winner) vs. Tommy McCoy - ANS-fight lasted 2 hrs 41 mins and went
119 rounds
Some historians suggest that baseball might have emerged from _________ in
England. - ANS-Rounders
NY Knickerbockers - ANS-club established in 1842
Alexander Cartwright - ANS-Created first rules of the game of baseball
National Association of Base Ball Players (NABBP) was established in? - ANS-1858
In 1869, _________ hired a team of professional players - ANS-Cincinnati
Who introduced managing, practices, physical fitness, and knee high knickers -
ANS-Harry Wright
Who brought the game of baseball into the new era and introduced statistical analysis
by the invention of a scorecard. He also introduced - ANS-Henry Chadwick
The new baseball in the live era was? - ANS-5.5 oz and 9.25 in in circumference
William Hulbert - ANS-Established the first major league
Problems for Early Professional Baseball - ANS-- Economic recessions
- anti-social behavior (fans/players)
- Sunday play and alcohol sales
Sporting man - ANS-person who flaunted the rules of gentlemen
Sporting people (men and women) were known as - ANS-physically fit and respectable
Sports are now a ___________ enterprise. - ANS-Multi-billion dollar
Professional teams are valued at? - ANS-500 Million to 3 Billion
Annual budgets for teams routinely exceed? - ANS-200 million
Major college athletic programs have an annual budget of? - ANS-30 million to 150
million
Betting is estimated _________ per year - ANS-$4 billion
Prior to 1960, there were only _____ scholarly books written on Sports American
History - ANS-3
in 1970, __________ wrote, Playing for Keeps: A History of Early baseball -
ANS-Warren Goldstein
Sport History didn't become a emerging study until? - ANS-1972
Native American sports included? - ANS-Archery, Running, Horse Riding, and Lacrosse
The cost of losing a game was high? - ANS-Lacrosse/players were buried with
equipment
Angelicanism - ANS-horse racing and tennis
Calvinism - ANS-amusement and game forbidden
Puritanism - ANS-- no dancing, drinking, gambling or violent sports
- allowed archery, swimming, fishing, hunting
- sports were judged and allowed based on practicality
, Primitive football - ANS-movement of the ball wad through narrow streets, across fields
and water courses to the opponents church
Which college was the first to have hunting and fishing? - ANS-Harvard
Southern colony sports consisted of? - ANS-Horse racing, gambling, blood sports,
prizefighting
Blood sports - ANS-boxing, dog fights, bear baiting
Prizefighting - ANS-"illegal but allowed
Christopher Lilly (winner) vs. Tommy McCoy - ANS-fight lasted 2 hrs 41 mins and went
119 rounds
Some historians suggest that baseball might have emerged from _________ in
England. - ANS-Rounders
NY Knickerbockers - ANS-club established in 1842
Alexander Cartwright - ANS-Created first rules of the game of baseball
National Association of Base Ball Players (NABBP) was established in? - ANS-1858
In 1869, _________ hired a team of professional players - ANS-Cincinnati
Who introduced managing, practices, physical fitness, and knee high knickers -
ANS-Harry Wright
Who brought the game of baseball into the new era and introduced statistical analysis
by the invention of a scorecard. He also introduced - ANS-Henry Chadwick
The new baseball in the live era was? - ANS-5.5 oz and 9.25 in in circumference
William Hulbert - ANS-Established the first major league
Problems for Early Professional Baseball - ANS-- Economic recessions
- anti-social behavior (fans/players)
- Sunday play and alcohol sales
