Exam 1 Flashcards
Youth-The transition years
middle and high school. Competitive sports appear
_ children make_ adults
unfit
Host facilities
concepts provide experience to all groups. clubs, gym, worksite, and festivals.
Shani Davis
first Black athlete to win a gold medal in an individual Winter
Olympics sport, speedskating.
zues
Ancient Olympics held in honor of this god
776 BC
Ancient Olympics started
Olympiads
4 year periods between games
Stadion Race
200 meters (600 Greek feet), first and only event in the Olympics from 776 to 724 BC
Coroebus
1st Olympic champion and baker by trade
pentathlon
an athletic contest consisting of five different events. run, jump, wrestling, javelin, and discuss.
Pankration
worlds strongest man. an Olympic event that combined wrestling and boxing. no rules
Orsippus
started tradition of racing nude(720 BC)
Theodosius
banned olympics
391 AD
end of olympics
Pierre de Coubertin 1896
Founder of the modern Olympics.
Olympic Motto
“Citius, altius, fortius” (faster, higher, stronger)
Olympic Symbol
Five interlocking rings to represent the union of the five continents of the world that take part
1st collegiate competition
crew. Yale v. Harvard
1st college baseball game
Williams v. Amherst 32:72 (1859)
1st college football game
Rutgers vs. Princeton 1869
1874
tennis was introduced
German System
Jahn- gymnastics, balance physical and academics
Swedish System
Ling- individualized approach, therapeutic, medicinal gymnastics
Beecher System
Brought over by a female; 26 lessons in physiology and 2 lessons in calisthenics
Dio Lewis System
Wife had TB, vigorous exercise with music, beanbags, wands, dumbbells
Hitchcock system
testing in physical education
Sargent System
testing and prescribed programs.
Man O’ War
Most famous race horse of all time. funeral broadcasted on radio
Knute Rockne
Notre Dame football coach
Red Grange (The Galloping Ghost)
famous college football player who played for the University of Illinois
Jack Dempsey
Famous boxer
Bobby Jones
golfer who won the masters. (american hero)
Babe Didrikson
American athlete who achieved success in golf, and track and field
Babe Ruth
He was a famous baseball player. 60 home runs
what prospered after the great depression
Recreational sports
