Tennis & Football Flashcards
who developed modern tennis
Major Walter C. Wingfield
what’s sphairistike
hourglass shapes tennis court
Name men tennis players
Rod Laver Pete Sampras Bjorn Borg Andre Agassi John McEnroe Arthur Ashe (first african american)
Name women tennis players
Steffi Graf Billy Jean King Martina Navratilova Chris Evert Margaret Smith Court
Sweetness?
Walter Peyton, played for Bears
Emitt Smith
all time rushing yards
First game??
Rutgers vs Prinston
Father of football??
Walter Camp
First professional player & payed $500
Pudge
Banned football in colleges till rules were established
Theodore Rosevelt
Running back associates with Texas A&M & SMU
Erik Dickenson
Deaths in what year due to what in football
18 deaths in 1905 because of the flying wedge
Norte Dame player??
Knute Rockne
Notre Dame four boys?
4 horsemen
Jim Thor
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Red Grange
Galloping Ghost
George Hallace
Bears coach
Vince Lambardy
Green Bay Packers coach
Dick Buketts
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Why did organized team games become commonplace in 1850s?
technological & economic changes towards urbanization.
written rules and structured play
why did Puritans discourage games & sports?
thought people would shrink their essential obligations for work & worship
was deemed inappropriate
recreational activities in early NYC
croquet cricket tennis lawn bowling badminton
What do Quakers ban & why
forms of leisure activities like dancing, cards, & animal baiting
because they viewed the activity didn’t promote general community welfare & economic growth
“Little Brother or War”
hundreds of players engaged in advancing the ball over several mikes of rugged terrain
what is La Crosse derived from
Bishops crozier
Tavern activities
card games, pitched quoits, display of talents of lawn bowling
What did John Cox Stevens offer $1000 for & who won it
run 10 mikes under an hour
Henry Stanhard
Who were Whitehallers
Americans in rowing club
Ship America
vessel Stevens dispatched to Great Britain to challenge the best English muster. America won & that’s where America’s Cup oriented from
5 characteristics of bare-knuckle prizefighting
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
How did Tom Hayer stimulate a demand for boxing matches
Telegraph
6 games considered to be predecessors of baseball
base-ball old cat tut ball barn ball trap ball tip-cat
Knickerbockers??
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
