Sports History Exam Flashcards
- Social bonds of communal life
- Brief escape from daily toil and routine
Festive Culture
- 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
Lawful Sport
_____ “______” ________ 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.
James “Yankee” Sullivan
- Popular Sovereignty
- Independence
- Virtuous and Active Citizens (supposed to do what’s best for the nation)
- Equal Opportunity
The American Revolution and Republicanism
shoes were needed so they made factories and had employees that needed to be in walking distance to the factories so ______ were made.
cities
every shoe is unique and every part of making a shoe is important
Alienation of Labor: Artisan
some people felt like their jobs were not important or felt like anyone could do it
Alienation of Labor: Deskilling
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.
sam patch
philosophical way of thinking
Aguste Comte
process of natural selection/chance (social darwinism)
Charles Darwin
survival of the fittest/ poor people should die
Herbert Spencer
under socialism workers would still work in a hierarchy, but that hierarchy would be fused with government
Max Weber
society should be analyzed and described in terms of functions.
Emile Durkheim
W.E.B Du Bois, ALice Paul, ad Kate O’Hare
Progressive Era Reformers
G. Stanley Hall, Luther Gulick, Edwards Clarke, Clelia Mosher, John Dewey, and Jane Addams
American Theorists of Sport and Play
Hunter-gatherer games/ tag
G. Stanley Hall
Founder of YMCA
Luther Gulick
he thought women couldn’t play sports for health reasons
Edward Clarke
she noticed women can benefit from sports
Clelia Mosher
ran houses for immigrants
Jane addams
founded the American Association of University Professors and helped organize the New York City Teachers Union.
John Dewey
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
Progressive Era Reform
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
violence in football
fans fought in the parking lots
1894 bloodbath (Harvard vs. Yale)
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.
Richard Gammon
early college athletics offered ______ off of athletes
profit
_____________ _______ 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.
institutional racism
2016 Harvard study shows “whitened” resumes more likely to receive interview requests than exact same resume where race could be determined
examples of institutional racism
more African Americans are in jail for the same crimes that whites get off for
examples of institutional racism
great pitcher
satchel paige
the 1931 _________ _____ are widely considered the greatest baseball team to ever take the field
homestead grays
____ ____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.
Babe Ruth
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.
theory of sports
____ _________(“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.
John Morrissey
Baseball’s first star ____ “____” _____
Mark “King” Kelly
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)
Jack Johnson
tom molineaux was a ___________ fighter
bareknuckle
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.
true
greatest pitcher in 18th century
christy mathewson
christy and ty cobb were drafted into the gas and flame division
true
head of household, health issues, religious
exceptions to getting drafted
baseball players were drafted because they were seen as fit for war since they were athletic
true
the French aristocrat who founded the modern Olympic games.
Pierre de Coubertin
the 1919 _____-_______ games were games in Paris that were designed to promote democracy and keep allied troops busy as they waited to return home
Inter-Allied
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.
Sol butler
