SPH M333 Test 2 questions & answers
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When did things get started at IU in terms of Rec Sports? - correct answer ✔✔1918- intramurals
began at IU
Who was Red Grange and what was his significance to college football? - correct answer
✔✔The star during Football's Golden Age, played for the University of Illinois, known as the
Galloping Ghost, established the importance of big-time college football in American popular
culture
-didn't graduate - left for pro football, became broadcaster
Who were the Four Horsemen? - correct answer ✔✔Notre Dames backfield. Don Miller, Elmer
Layden, Jim Crowley, Harry Stuhldreher
Who was Knute Rockne and why was he significant? - correct answer ✔✔He was the coach who
put Notre Dame on the Board. Had 5 undefeated teams and won 3 national championships.
What was the Carnegie Report? - correct answer ✔✔The Carnegie Foundation gathered
information on such aspects as recruiting, payments to athletes, academic standards,
administrative control over athletics, and the status and pay of college coaches. Among the
report's most heralded findings at the time were the use of aggressive recruiting tactics, the
widespread existence of "slush funds" and subsidies to athletes, often by alumni boosters.
Who was Frank Hogan and what did he discover about college basketball? - correct answer
✔✔●Was a district attorney and a politician who investigated cheating in collegiate basketball
●City College of New York (CCNY) won NCAA D1 championship over Bradley University
●Later discovered that they were point shaving and at least 7 other schools were involved in the
scandal
, ●Hogan arrested 7 men for fixing games and it garnered heavy attention
Describe the outcome and cultural effect of the Jack Johnson vs. Jim Jefferies fight. - correct
answer ✔✔Johnson defeated Jeffries, "for Johnson and his people the championship seemed a
partial but promising fulfillment of their collective hopes and dreams, a portent part of a future
brighter than their troubled past and present."
Who was Rube Foster and why was he significant to baseball? - correct answer ✔✔He
established the NNL, the National Negro League. Helped bring integrated baseball, after MLB
saw the talent the NNL had.
Which two famous players created a competition between black and white players? - correct
answer ✔✔Jack Johnson (Black Fighter) VS. Tommy Burns (White Fighter). Johnson destroyed
Burns.
Know at least four important facts about Jesse Owens. - correct answer ✔✔1. 4 gold medals at
the 1936 Olympics
2. Ohio State Track & Field Champion
3. Hitler despised him and was nowhere to be seen to give him the gold medals.
4. During the 1935 Big Ten Conference track and field championship meet, Owens broke 5
American records in one single afternoon
Know at least four important facts about Joe Louis - correct answer ✔✔1. Won heavyweight
championship in 1937
2. Coached to be a gentleman boxer (no gloating)
3. Impoverished he was buried in Arlington
4. Fought Max Schmeling in 1938. Schmeling was a German fighter and was a poster child for
the 3rd Reich.
graded A+ updated
When did things get started at IU in terms of Rec Sports? - correct answer ✔✔1918- intramurals
began at IU
Who was Red Grange and what was his significance to college football? - correct answer
✔✔The star during Football's Golden Age, played for the University of Illinois, known as the
Galloping Ghost, established the importance of big-time college football in American popular
culture
-didn't graduate - left for pro football, became broadcaster
Who were the Four Horsemen? - correct answer ✔✔Notre Dames backfield. Don Miller, Elmer
Layden, Jim Crowley, Harry Stuhldreher
Who was Knute Rockne and why was he significant? - correct answer ✔✔He was the coach who
put Notre Dame on the Board. Had 5 undefeated teams and won 3 national championships.
What was the Carnegie Report? - correct answer ✔✔The Carnegie Foundation gathered
information on such aspects as recruiting, payments to athletes, academic standards,
administrative control over athletics, and the status and pay of college coaches. Among the
report's most heralded findings at the time were the use of aggressive recruiting tactics, the
widespread existence of "slush funds" and subsidies to athletes, often by alumni boosters.
Who was Frank Hogan and what did he discover about college basketball? - correct answer
✔✔●Was a district attorney and a politician who investigated cheating in collegiate basketball
●City College of New York (CCNY) won NCAA D1 championship over Bradley University
●Later discovered that they were point shaving and at least 7 other schools were involved in the
scandal
, ●Hogan arrested 7 men for fixing games and it garnered heavy attention
Describe the outcome and cultural effect of the Jack Johnson vs. Jim Jefferies fight. - correct
answer ✔✔Johnson defeated Jeffries, "for Johnson and his people the championship seemed a
partial but promising fulfillment of their collective hopes and dreams, a portent part of a future
brighter than their troubled past and present."
Who was Rube Foster and why was he significant to baseball? - correct answer ✔✔He
established the NNL, the National Negro League. Helped bring integrated baseball, after MLB
saw the talent the NNL had.
Which two famous players created a competition between black and white players? - correct
answer ✔✔Jack Johnson (Black Fighter) VS. Tommy Burns (White Fighter). Johnson destroyed
Burns.
Know at least four important facts about Jesse Owens. - correct answer ✔✔1. 4 gold medals at
the 1936 Olympics
2. Ohio State Track & Field Champion
3. Hitler despised him and was nowhere to be seen to give him the gold medals.
4. During the 1935 Big Ten Conference track and field championship meet, Owens broke 5
American records in one single afternoon
Know at least four important facts about Joe Louis - correct answer ✔✔1. Won heavyweight
championship in 1937
2. Coached to be a gentleman boxer (no gloating)
3. Impoverished he was buried in Arlington
4. Fought Max Schmeling in 1938. Schmeling was a German fighter and was a poster child for
the 3rd Reich.
