Sports History Exam

Question 1

• Social bonds of communal life
• Brief escape from daily toil and routine

Answer 1

Festive Culture

Question 2

• In Puritan new England, such sports had to be dissociated from festive culture
• Sports needed to refresh participants so they could better execute their spiritual
  callings
• Should promote hard work and not be non-sensical
• Examples: skating, swinging, and some ball games
• To be avoided: gambling and fighting

Answer 2

Lawful Sport

Question 3

_____ “______” ________ fought tom Hyer. Hyer won the bout. It serves as an example of rivalry between nativists and immigrants in America’s growing cities full of working-class citizens searching for identity.

Answer 3

James “Yankee” Sullivan

Question 4

• Popular Sovereignty
• Independence
• Virtuous and Active Citizens (supposed to do what’s best for the nation)
• Equal Opportunity

Answer 4

The American Revolution and Republicanism

Question 5

shoes were needed so they made factories and had employees that needed to be in walking distance to the factories so ______ were made.

Answer 5

cities

Question 6

every shoe is unique and every part of making a shoe is important

Answer 6

Alienation of Labor: Artisan

Question 7

some people felt like their jobs were not important or felt like anyone could do it

Answer 7

Alienation of Labor: Deskilling

Question 8

this person got drunk and jumped off waterfalls and people came to watch. he used to work in a textile factory but was laid off once they built a machine that ended up replacing him at his job. he jumped while wearing Artisan clothes to represent the fired workers.

Answer 8

sam patch

Question 9

philosophical way of thinking

Answer 9

Aguste Comte

Question 10

process of natural selection/chance (social darwinism)

Answer 10

Charles Darwin

Question 11

survival of the fittest/ poor people should die

Answer 11

Herbert Spencer

Question 12

under socialism workers would still work in a hierarchy, but that hierarchy would be fused with government

Answer 12

Max Weber

Question 13

society should be analyzed and described in terms of functions.

Answer 13

Emile Durkheim

Question 14

W.E.B Du Bois, ALice Paul, ad Kate O’Hare

Answer 14

Progressive Era Reformers

Question 15

G. Stanley Hall, Luther Gulick, Edwards Clarke, Clelia Mosher, John Dewey, and Jane Addams

Answer 15

American Theorists of Sport and Play

Question 16

Hunter-gatherer games/ tag

Answer 16

G. Stanley Hall

Question 17

Founder of YMCA

Answer 17

Luther Gulick

Question 18

he thought women couldn’t play sports for health reasons

Answer 18

Edward Clarke

Question 19

she noticed women can benefit from sports

Answer 19

Clelia Mosher

Question 20

ran houses for immigrants

Answer 20

Jane addams

Question 21

founded the American Association of University Professors and helped organize the New York City Teachers Union.

Answer 21

John Dewey

Question 22

during this era they were trying to get rid of Jim crow laws, lynching and false accusations of crimes, and bad working conditions. They also made better playgrounds for poor people during this time

Answer 22

Progressive Era Reform

Question 23

didn’t have safe gear, there was eye gouging, In 1904 18 people died playing football with 100 plus injuries, in 1905 19 people died with 150 plus injured

Answer 23

violence in football

Question 24

fans fought in the parking lots

Answer 24

1894 bloodbath (Harvard vs. Yale)

Question 25

this person died playing football at University of Georgia in 1897, he got a bad concussion and passed out on the bench and then he died in the hospital the next day.

Answer 25

Richard Gammon

Question 26

early college athletics offered ______ off of athletes

Answer 26

profit

Question 27

_____________ _______ is distinguished from the explicit attitudes or racial bias of individuals by the
existence of systematic policies or laws and practices that
provide differential access to goods, services, and opportunities of society by race. Institutional racism results in data showing racial gaps across every system. For children and families it affects where they live, the quality of the education
they receive, their income, the types of food they have access to,
their exposure to pollutants, whether they have access to
clean air, clean water or adequate medical treatment, and the
types of interactions they have with the criminal justice
system.

Answer 27

institutional racism

Question 28

2016 Harvard study shows “whitened” resumes more likely to receive interview requests than exact same resume where race could be determined

Answer 28

examples of institutional racism

Question 29

more African Americans are in jail for the same crimes that whites get off for

Answer 29

examples of institutional racism

Question 30

great pitcher

Answer 30

satchel paige

Question 31

the 1931 _________ _____ are widely considered the greatest baseball team to ever take the field

Answer 31

homestead grays

Question 32

____ ____contributed to celebrity culture because of how good he was. He was bringing in revenue of 10’s of thousands of dollars which was unheard of. Fans loved to come and see him play which is what brought a lot of money to ____ and to the game of baseball. ____ was also able to monetize his fame and how good he was and he started being in ads for drinks and cigarettes further contributing to the celebrity culture of using your fame to your advantage to make money off of it.

Answer 32

Babe Ruth

Question 33

Interactionist theory: Sports are given meaning as people interact with one another. Interactionist theory focuses on issues related to meaning, identity, social relationships, and subcultures in sports.

Answer 33

theory of sports

Question 34

____ _________(“Old Smoke”) was
a champion bareknuckle boxer in
the 1850s and a New York
politician in the 1860s and 1870s.
After his fighting career (including
a controversial defeat of “Yankee”
Sullivan”), _________made a lot of
money as a gambler. He later
serves in the NY State Senate and
US Congress, first by controlling
Tammany Hall by ousting Boss
Tweed from control, and later by
running to reform machine
politics.

Answer 34

John Morrissey

Question 35

Baseball’s first star ____ “____” _____

Answer 35

Mark “King” Kelly

Question 36

this person was the first black heavy weight boxing champion, he had romantic involvements with white women, he defied societal norms, and had an unapologetic demeanor.(early 1900’s)

Answer 36

Jack Johnson

Question 37

tom molineaux was a ___________ fighter

Answer 37

bareknuckle

Question 38

sports were used as a way to pass time during war eras. soldiers on opposite sides were often seen playing together and drinking together during christmas truce.

Answer 38

true

Question 39

greatest pitcher in 18th century

Answer 39

christy mathewson

Question 40

christy and ty cobb were drafted into the gas and flame division

Answer 40

true

Question 41

head of household, health issues, religious

Answer 41

exceptions to getting drafted

Question 42

baseball players were drafted because they were seen as fit for war since they were athletic

Answer 42

true

Question 43

the French aristocrat who founded the modern Olympic games.

Answer 43

Pierre de Coubertin

Question 44

the 1919 _____-_______ games were games in Paris that were designed to promote democracy and keep allied troops busy as they waited to return home

Answer 44

Inter-Allied

Question 45

this person won the long jump at the inter-allied games and almost broke the Olympic record so he went to the Olympics but got hurt on his first jump and couldn’t finish competing.

Answer 45

Sol butler