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[ ] wanted change to improve the lives of the growing urban population – often immigrant newcomers to America.
Progressive reformers
Campaigned against the manufacture and consumption of alcohol (prohibition); organized workers in labor unions
Often employed sport in a variety of programs to educate and assimilate immigrants and address the perceived social ills.
WASPS
Progressive reformers devised a 3-tier procedure designed to assimilate the working class – and sports factored into this process.
{humanitarian concerns – child labor laws (met with resistance from parents)}
1st step
Progressive reformers devised a 3-tier procedure designed to assimilate the working class – and sports factored into this process.
{passes mandatory education laws because unemployed children roamed the streets (joining gangs, crime)}
2nd step
Progressive reformers devised a 3-tier procedure designed to assimilate the working class – and sports factored into this process. {physical education in the schools; supervised games and sport taught deference to authority.}
3rd step
AN IMAGE, REPRESENTATION, OR SYMBOL. A REPRESENTATION OF SOMETHING SACRED, OR HELD IN HIGH REGARD
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Sports become an everyday part of American culture
Sports media and fan
Automobile, radio, TV bring sport to America
Increased sports participation (youth, interscholastic, college, adult rec)
Athletes become American icons
the golden age of sport
National Pastime is also called
baseball
how does babe ruth change the game
Strategy, Excitement, fan base
[ ] is America’s first and largest “media darling”, becomes the face of his sport, and a symbol of America
Babe Ruth
MLB match fixing incident in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox were accused of intentionally losing the Series
1919 World Series
who was white sox owner
Charles Comiskey
1920, [ ] helps organize National Association of Colored Baseball Clubs
Andrew “Rube” Foster
negro teams
Pittsburgh Crawfords
Homestead Grays
Birmingham Barons
Indianapolis Clowns
negro players
Josh Gibson
Cool Papa Bell
Satchell Paige
Few opportunities
Basketball, softball, tennis, dance
Beliefs about “negative health implications” of vigorous PA for women
Female PE leaders discourage interscholastic and competitive sports for girls
characteristics of female sports in the early 1900s
Intramural and minimal intercollegiate competition at all-girl colleges
Women swim in Olympics (1912)
1920s growth in amateur sports results in increased programs for girls and women (non-scholastic)
Girls’ high school basketball grows significantly (post-season tournaments)
all show the baby steps in female sports growth
The most significant female athlete of the first half of the 20th century
babe didrikson
Great at every sport (basketball, softball, tennis, Tr&Fd)
Babe Didrikson
As a secretary at the “Employers’ Casualty Company,” leads their teams to several championships
Babe Didrikson
Enters 1932 AAU Track & Field Championships as only member of the Employers’ Casualty Company team. Breaks 4 world records and wins team championship.
Babe Didrikson
Wins 2 gold and 1 silver medal at 1932 Olympics.
Makes decision to be a professional athlete.
Babe Didrikson
1932-1934
Travels promoting herself
Pitches against MLB teams at spring training
Plays for co-ed basketball team
Plays in exhibitions with men’s baseball team
Babe Didrickson
1933: Takes golf lessons (a ladylike game)
Wins Amateur golf tournaments; banned from playing because she is a professional
Qualifies for men’s PGA event
Amateur status restored; wins 17 consecutive women’s golf tournaments
1947: Helps found the LPGA; leading money winner and crowd draw
Babe Didrickson
Spread by the YMCA (so learned by kids)
Becomes associated with scholastic sport
basketball
By 1905, 80 colleges field teams
1904 – demonstration sport in Olympics
By WWI, [ ] is most popular HS sport and 2nd to FB at college level
basketball
1930:[ ] coaches 1st basketball game at Kentucky
Adolph Rupp
Coaches UK for 44 years, winning 874 games, 4 natl titles
Adolph Rupp
Black Chicago-based team formed by Abe Saperstein
Renames team “New York” to get games
Later renames team “Harlem Globetrotters” to let people know they are a black team (to draw a crowd)
The Savoy Big 5 (1928)
Play two exhibition games against George Mikan’s Minneapolis Lakers (NBA Champs)
The Savoy Big 5/ Harlem Globe Trotters
Ties world record as HS senior
Ohio State
1936 Olympics (Berlin, Germany)
The Nazi Olympics
100
200
Long jump
4 x 100 relay
Jesse owens
Heavyweight Champ
Hero to black youth
Quiet, polite, humble
1936 & 1938: Fights German Max Schmelling
Joe Louis
(The Brown Bomber)
Joe Louis is also called
The Brown Bomber
[ ] was affected by the Depression more than any other sport
Boxing
Many detractors
Born in South and migrated northward
Had to chase his fights all over the world
Took a not-so-secret delight in piquing white America with his white wives
Jack Johnson
No more than a handful of detractors
Born in Alabama and eventually settled in Detroit
Could try to get fights here at home in US
Heeded his counsel to avoid even being photographed alone with a white woman
Joe Louis
Surname was “Barrow” – born in 1914 in Alabama
Joe Louis/ The Brown Bomber
Family moved to Detroit after remarried
Incident with KKK in Alabama
Racial conflict
Joe Louis
Education:
Never cultivated an interest
Went to Bronson Trade School
In 1931, at age 17, was out of school and working in an automotive factory making $1/day
Began taking violin lessons
Joe Louis/ The brown bomber
Already flooded with hundreds of blacks before him
Radio broadcasts were in their infancy and sport sheets catered to fans everywhere
Louis said: “Dempsey was the one hero that I had when I was a kid”…didn’t realize he idolized a boxer who refused to fight blacks after winning the title
Joe Louis/ The brown bomber
Early Boxing Career:
Persuaded to give it a try – signed up at Brewster East Side gym
Dropped the name “Barrow”
After amateur career of 54 wins and 4 losses, he turned pro in 1934
Joe Louis/ The Brown Bomber
[ ] wanted a black manager – Detroit businessman, John Roxborough (king of the illegal numbers rackets in the city’s black neighborhoods)
Joe Louis
[ ] became Joe Louis trainer (forged a bond with Blackburn that became one of the strongest, warmest and most trusting in all of sports history)
Jack Blackburn
Told he needed to KO opponents rather than risk the judges decisions
Received lessons on personal hygiene and proper table manners
Was provided English lessons to improve diction
Joe Louis
Professional victories:
[ ] (German) - 1936
Lost in a controversial fight in the 12th round
Germany was jubilant over the victory
Earlier in year, Jesse Owens had won 4 gold medals
Max Schmelling
Symbolic Meaning – Black National Hero
2nd Fight: 70,000 fans Grossed $1,015,012
Won
Joe Louis
Donated money to armed forces (never understood this was still considered income)
Joe Louis
what was significant about 1920 – Antwerp olympics
Olympic flag flown for the first time
where was olympics held in 1920
Antwerp
what was significant about 1924 Paris Olympics
expulsion of tennis
where was 1924 olympics
Paris
where was 1928 olympics
amsterdam
what was significant about 1928 olympics in amsterdam
track and field events for women