Pre industrial sport

Question 1

Pre 1780 communication and transport
+ consequence

Answer 1

Poor quality
Slow
Expensive
Inaccessible to most
SO SPORT WAS
Local
Irregular
Unique games and rules
Lack of competitions

Question 2

Pre 1780 education and consequence

Answer 2

Rare
Expensive
High illiteracy among poor
Class divide
SO SPORT WAS
simplistic in rules
Lack of rules
Divide in upper class and lower class sports

Question 3

Pre 1780 sociocultural factors

Answer 3

Communication
Education
Harsh lifestyle
Working lifestyle
feudal system

Question 4

Pre 1780 lifestyle + consequence

Answer 4

Busy
Poor conditions
Violent
Simple
Hard
Divided
SO SPORT WAS
Unruly
Bloody
Violent
Physical

Question 5

Pre 1780 work + consequence

Answer 5

Seasonal
small wage
long hours
Only holy days off
While the upper class:
Little to no work
Inherited land or business

So for the poor, sport was
Occasional
Lengthy
Basic to no equipment

For the rich sport was
Whenever
Long
Regular
High quality equipment

Question 6

Popular recreation characteristics

Answer 6

Local
Simple and basic rules
Violent and male dominated
Working class
Rural, natural resource and spacious

Question 7

Mob football characteristics

Answer 7

Lower class
Local and rural
Used pig bladder (natural resource)
Holy days
Violent
Only rule is do not murder
Unpopular with authorities, banned during industrialisation

Question 8

Real tennis characteristics

Answer 8

Upper class
Complex rules
Civilised
Regular
Specialist equipment
Non local