Sport and Society Key dates

Question 1

1780

Answer 1

Industrial era begins

Question 2

Transport in 1780

Answer 2

Expensive
Inaccessible to most
Lead to localised sport

Question 3

Communication in 1780

Answer 3

Slow
inefficient
Again lead to localised sport

Question 4

Education in 1780

Answer 4

Expensive
Mostly illiterate population
Only upper class
Lead to simple rules in popular recreation

Question 5

1850

Answer 5

Wenlock games introduced my Dr Penny Brooks
Amateur event for the working class
Involved small rewards, focus on love of sport rather than reward

“to promote the moral, physical and intellectual improvement of the inhabitants of the Town and neighbourhood of Wenlock”.

Question 6

1850-1890

Answer 6

Introduction of many NGBs
FA
RFU
LTA

Question 7

1863

Answer 7

Formation of the FA
Codification of football

Question 8

1866

Answer 8

Formation of AAC
Amateur Athletics Club
Disallowed labourers and mechanics, men who would push for professionalism
Made by ex public school boys and ex uni men

Question 9

1871

Answer 9

RFU formed
Rugby Football Union

AND

FA cup introduced

Question 10

1877

Answer 10

All England Croquet club is renamed

-> All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club

Question 11

1884

Answer 11

Women are allowed to play lawn tennis

Question 12

1885

Answer 12

Broken time payments introduced
First official move to professionalism

Question 13

1888

Answer 13

Formation of LTA
Lawn Tennis Association

Question 14

1896

Answer 14

Introduction of the Modern Olympics
First held in Athens
Formed by Barron Pierre De Coubertin

Question 15

1901

Answer 15

£4 a week wage limit

Question 16

1914

Answer 16

Beginning of first world war
Men left home to fight, leaving jobs and teams
Allowed women participation in sport
Women’s football teams formed

Question 17

1921

Answer 17

Women banned from playing football
FA did not want it to become more popular than mens

Question 18

1922

Answer 18

Formation of AAA
Amateurs Athletics Association
Allowed women to join

Question 19

1927

Answer 19

First broadcast of sport on the BBC

Question 20

1948

Answer 20

London olympics held
Stimulated Amateur involvement

Question 21

1954

Answer 21

UEFA set up
Formed international tournemounts -> Champions league
Encouraged global participation in football

Question 22

1930

Answer 22

World cup set up by Jules Rimet
Won by Uruguay, showing worldwide spread and codification of football

Question 23

1961

Answer 23

PFA chairman Jimmy Hill won abolition of maximum wage
Leads to Footballers such as Cristiano ronaldo earning £500,000 a week in 2021

Question 24

1966

Answer 24

England wins the world cup against West Germany

Question 25

1968

Answer 25

Open Era
Commercial pressure and rumours of amateurs taking money illegally are revealed

Question 26

1971

Answer 26

Women’s football ban lifted

Question 27

1995

Answer 27

Bosman Ruling
Abolished restrictions on Foreign players in EU from transferring clubs at end of contract

Question 28

2007

Answer 28

Women gain equal prize money at Wimbledon
£700,000
Rose to £2.25 million in 2018

Question 29

2015

Answer 29

First FIFA game to include female players

Question 30

2022

Answer 30

Women’s England team won the Euro Final

Question 31

1874

Answer 31

Introduction of Sphairistiké (Lawn Tennis)
By Major Walter Wingfield
Came with instructions, codified Lawn Tennis