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1
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who developed modern tennis

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Major Walter C. Wingfield

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2
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what’s sphairistike

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hourglass shapes tennis court

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Name men tennis players

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Rod Laver
Pete Sampras
Bjorn Borg
Andre Agassi
John McEnroe
Arthur Ashe (first african american)
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4
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Name women tennis players

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Steffi Graf
Billy Jean King
Martina Navratilova
Chris Evert
Margaret Smith Court
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5
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Sweetness?

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Walter Peyton, played for Bears

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6
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Emitt Smith

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all time rushing yards

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7
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First game??

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Rutgers vs Prinston

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Father of football??

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Walter Camp

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9
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First professional player & payed $500

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Pudge

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10
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Banned football in colleges till rules were established

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Theodore Rosevelt

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Running back associates with Texas A&M & SMU

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Erik Dickenson

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12
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Deaths in what year due to what in football

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18 deaths in 1905 because of the flying wedge

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13
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Norte Dame player??

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Knute Rockne

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14
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Notre Dame four boys?

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4 horsemen

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15
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Jim Thor

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Red Grange

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Galloping Ghost

17
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George Hallace

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Bears coach

18
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Vince Lambardy

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Green Bay Packers coach

19
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Dick Buketts

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??

20
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Why did organized team games become commonplace in 1850s?

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technological & economic changes towards urbanization.

written rules and structured play

21
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why did Puritans discourage games & sports?

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thought people would shrink their essential obligations for work & worship

was deemed inappropriate

22
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recreational activities in early NYC

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croquet
cricket
tennis
lawn bowling
badminton
23
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What do Quakers ban & why

A

forms of leisure activities like dancing, cards, & animal baiting

because they viewed the activity didn’t promote general community welfare & economic growth

24
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“Little Brother or War”

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hundreds of players engaged in advancing the ball over several mikes of rugged terrain

25
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what is La Crosse derived from

A

Bishops crozier

26
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Tavern activities

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card games, pitched quoits, display of talents of lawn bowling

27
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What did John Cox Stevens offer $1000 for & who won it

A

run 10 mikes under an hour

Henry Stanhard

28
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Who were Whitehallers

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Americans in rowing club

29
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Ship America

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vessel Stevens dispatched to Great Britain to challenge the best English muster. America won & that’s where America’s Cup oriented from

30
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5 characteristics of bare-knuckle prizefighting

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battle in public spaces
money challenged hands as bets settled
conducted set of rules
downed opponent could not be kicked
round ended when a contestant was knocked down
31
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How did Tom Hayer stimulate a demand for boxing matches

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Telegraph

32
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6 games considered to be predecessors of baseball

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base-ball
old cat
tut ball
barn ball
trap ball
tip-cat
33
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Knickerbockers??

A

adopted rules for sportsmanship
made fines for intoxication, criticizing umps, & using profanity
creation of formal baseball club
$5 annual membership fee & written set of rules

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