Exam #4 Flashcards
What are some of the endurance sports?
need to know 5
Dance Marathons Triathlons LA to NY 75 miles a day Flagpole sitters swim across the ocean (long beach to catalina)
Grammar, middle, high-schools
colleges and universities
business teams
baseball
In baseball was racism a significant social issue?
Yes African Americans played in own league until 1947
Jackie Robinson broke the “color line” signed with the brooklyn dodgers
Paved the way for blacks and hispanics
What did basketball come from?
American Indians and Central Americans
How was basketball played and who created B-bal?
Started with a soccer ball and two peach baskets.
YMCA created B-ball
Three zones, couldn’t go full court. No stealing the ball was allowed. six to nine players allowed. 1936 switched to half court.
Women’s basketball
Outlawed in many states
Racism was part of it
Boxing
First African american heavy weight champion
said the racism did not apply to him
Jack Johnson
What was volleyball originally called?
Minonette
used the entire gym six foot, six inch net 9 innings number of players depended on who showed up could dribble the ball like a basketball could not go withing 4 feet of the net
Volleyball
What women sports were played in the 1901-1907?
need to know 6
Field hockey lacrosse volleyball cricket soccer water polo
What were some opposition to Women in sport?
Need to know 7
lead to professionalism unsocial needed coaches lead to training at the expenses of many undesirable results for women it was expensive lead to "nerve fatigue"
2 gold medals and on silver in Track and Field
went on to become a professional golfer
greatest women athlete of the first half of the 20th century
Babe Didrickson Zaharias
Fairness and equity
Inequities in participation and opportunities
Ideology and power
Sports as an outlet for more people than just heterosexual males in society
US law prohibiting gender discrimination in schools that receive federal funds through grants, scholarships, and other support for students
TiTLe 9
Who does title nine apply to?
Curriculum
counseling
academic support
interscholastic sponsored opportunities including sport
Who signed the title nine?
President Nixon
What are the three things that schools must follow?
- fund the same % as there are women in the school
- there is progress towards supporting new women’s sports in the school
- a school must demonstrate that women are happy with the sports offered to them and request no further expansion
what president did this “varsity sports did not receive direct money from the government so TITLE 9 did not apply
after 1984 title nine was irrelevant
Ronald regan
Congress passed the Civil Rights Restoration Act. which declared the title 9 had been attended to apply to high school programs
1987
had to undress (naked) in front of a panel of doctors to show that they were a woman
the Olympic “fem” test
