SPH-M333 Exam 1 Questions with Correct Answers Latest Update 2025/2026
Native American Sports - Answers -Archery: Hoop & Flight Contest
-Running: Sprint and Distance
-Horse Riding: Europeans introduced horses
-Stick Ball: Early form of lacrosse used to settle disputes
Lacrosse (Native American) - Answers -Similar to Bishop's cozier named by the French
-The cost of losing a game was high(Property, family, life)
-Players were buried with equipment
Anglicanism Sports - Answers Billiards
Horse Racing
Card Games
Calvinism Sports - Answers Amusement and Games forbidden
Puritanism - Answers -No dancing, drinking, gambling or violent sport
-Allowed archery, swimming, fishing, hunting
-Sports were allowed based on their practicality
Colonial Games - Answers Primitive Football
-Movement of the ball was through narrow streets, across fields and water courses to the
opponents church
- Later Colonial Football: Moving a pig bladder across a field
Harvard - Answers The first American University
- Followed by Yale and Princeton
- Competed in Hunting and Fishing
Plantation Colony Sports - Answers -Horse racing (for mostly the wealthy)
-Gambling was an accepted part of the culture
-Blood Sports: Boxing, Dog fighting, Bear Baiting
Prizefighting (Southern Colonies) - Answers Illegal but allowed (rough & tumble)
, Very brutal
Prize Fighting (Formative Years) - Answers Rules developed as a reaction to rough and tumble
fighting years
-Downed opponent couldn't be hit or kicked
-had 30 seconds to 'toe the mark' in the center of ring once knocked down
-Fighters fought to finish, won or lost when someone was knocked out or couldn't toe the mark
Christopher Lilly vs. Tommy McCoy - Answers -Fight that ended in McCoy's death
-120 rounds
-McCoy drowned in his own blood
-1842
John "Old Smokey" Morrissey - Answers Fighter who became a politician
Ethnic Fights - Answers Caucasians vs Africans
Italians vs Irish
Location of Prize Fights - Answers Bars
New York Knickerbockers - Answers First baseball club established in 1842
Alexander Cartwright - Answers Created the first rules for baseball
National Association of Baseball Players - Answers NABBP was officially established in 1858 to
govern the game of baseball
Cincinnati Red Stockings - Answers First professional baseball team founded in 1869
Harry Wright - Answers Introduced managing, practices, physical fitness and knee high kickers
(Red Stockings/Red Legs)
Henry Chadwick - Answers Former British cricket player who embraced the game of baseball
saying it embraced american spirit and was a manly pastime.
-He introduced statistical analysis by the invention of the scorecard which allowed for endless
player comparisons
- Also introduced baseball publications that analyzed play and argued for moral codes
First Rivalries in Baseball - Answers Northeast vs Midwest
Native American Sports - Answers -Archery: Hoop & Flight Contest
-Running: Sprint and Distance
-Horse Riding: Europeans introduced horses
-Stick Ball: Early form of lacrosse used to settle disputes
Lacrosse (Native American) - Answers -Similar to Bishop's cozier named by the French
-The cost of losing a game was high(Property, family, life)
-Players were buried with equipment
Anglicanism Sports - Answers Billiards
Horse Racing
Card Games
Calvinism Sports - Answers Amusement and Games forbidden
Puritanism - Answers -No dancing, drinking, gambling or violent sport
-Allowed archery, swimming, fishing, hunting
-Sports were allowed based on their practicality
Colonial Games - Answers Primitive Football
-Movement of the ball was through narrow streets, across fields and water courses to the
opponents church
- Later Colonial Football: Moving a pig bladder across a field
Harvard - Answers The first American University
- Followed by Yale and Princeton
- Competed in Hunting and Fishing
Plantation Colony Sports - Answers -Horse racing (for mostly the wealthy)
-Gambling was an accepted part of the culture
-Blood Sports: Boxing, Dog fighting, Bear Baiting
Prizefighting (Southern Colonies) - Answers Illegal but allowed (rough & tumble)
, Very brutal
Prize Fighting (Formative Years) - Answers Rules developed as a reaction to rough and tumble
fighting years
-Downed opponent couldn't be hit or kicked
-had 30 seconds to 'toe the mark' in the center of ring once knocked down
-Fighters fought to finish, won or lost when someone was knocked out or couldn't toe the mark
Christopher Lilly vs. Tommy McCoy - Answers -Fight that ended in McCoy's death
-120 rounds
-McCoy drowned in his own blood
-1842
John "Old Smokey" Morrissey - Answers Fighter who became a politician
Ethnic Fights - Answers Caucasians vs Africans
Italians vs Irish
Location of Prize Fights - Answers Bars
New York Knickerbockers - Answers First baseball club established in 1842
Alexander Cartwright - Answers Created the first rules for baseball
National Association of Baseball Players - Answers NABBP was officially established in 1858 to
govern the game of baseball
Cincinnati Red Stockings - Answers First professional baseball team founded in 1869
Harry Wright - Answers Introduced managing, practices, physical fitness and knee high kickers
(Red Stockings/Red Legs)
Henry Chadwick - Answers Former British cricket player who embraced the game of baseball
saying it embraced american spirit and was a manly pastime.
-He introduced statistical analysis by the invention of the scorecard which allowed for endless
player comparisons
- Also introduced baseball publications that analyzed play and argued for moral codes
First Rivalries in Baseball - Answers Northeast vs Midwest
