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Discovery of New World- Native americans playing sports
1500’s
Settling the New World
1600’s
Colonies fight for independence/expansion
1700’s
Era of Good Feeling
1800’s
Colonial period
New England Colonies
Sports, Physical Education and Dance- Associated with religious ceremonies, festive celebrations and social relaxation
- Prominent in the life of Native Americans
Most popular sport was
baggataway (lax)
serves as a source of motivation and pride, preparation for war, pursuit of game animals and delivery of messages
footraces
Kicking a ball for 25 miles
footraces
women played this- similar to field hockey
Shinny
pulling a stick over frozen lakes
Snow Snake
Came in search of new life, adventure and religious freedom
Massachusetts (Pilgrims)
Puritan Work Ethic
all work no play, sunday was idle day
who followed a puritan work ethic
- Massachusetts (Pilgrims)
Prohibited sporting activities such as sledding, football, dancing, swimming, ninepins, shuffleboard
Massachusetts (Pilgrims)
Strong desire to set up schools
Massachusetts (Pilgrims)
1st public school (massachusetts)
Boston Latin School
First university
Harvard
Absolutely no Sunday amusements and Games for children had moral teachings
Massachusetts (Pilgrims)
were a major social center in Massachusetts
Taverns
led by dutch and german
New York (New Amsterdam)
Came to the New World with a strong commercial spirit – wealth seekers
New York (New Amsterdam)
Good food, drink & gambling – lots of festivals!
New York (New Amsterdam)
Bowling (ninepins), tennis, cricket, horseracing, ice skating
New York (New Amsterdam)
○ Had a strong family and community values as well as frugality and diligence
○ Set an early precedent for sport
New York (New Amsterdam)
Came in search of religious freedom
Pennsylvania
Quakers: Society of Friends (William Penn)
Pennsylvania
Quakers was owned by
William Penn
This territory welcomed settlers from several European countries (Sweden, Germany, France, Scotland, Ireland)
Pennsylvania
education of youth
- Wrote 2 books
Ben Franklin
Peace loving - ice skate, swim, hunt & fish
Pennsylvania
Economic opportunity rather than for religious freedom
Virginia
Tobacco main crop
Virginia
was most popular sport in Virginia
Horse racing
Physical activity embraced
Virginia
African slaves provided labor & were jockeys and boxers
Virginia
- Popular activities: foxhunting, horse racing, hunting, fishing, rowing, cock fighting, boxing, shooting matches, and dancing
○ Strongly influenced by the english
Virginia
These were the American version of English pubs, German beer halls and European inns.
taverns/ inns
American boxers were called [ ] – strongly influenced by the English; matches staged by slave owners
“pugilists”
Matches were between slaves of one land to another
“pugilists”
1st well known pugilist
Tom Molineaux
1st great american boxed
Tom Molineaux
○ Born a slave in 1784; won his freedom by fighting in 1809 (25 years old) but only if he won
○ He left for England and under Bill Richmond’s tutelage began serious training.
○ The British fighters often used adopted false names so that losses would not be so embarrassing.
○ Only ended when one fighter gave up
Tom Molineaux
Who did Tom Molineaux train under
Bill Richmond
Molineaux went to England in 1810 to fight the British champion [ ]
Tom Cribb
the world heavyweight champion in front of more than 20,000 fans. Billed as the “fight of the century.
Tom Cribb
The Era of Good Feeling
1800 to 1860
track and field was called
athletics
amateur sports were
rowing and boxing
ball games consisted of
cricket, baseball, football
Popular in established cities
Gambling made it controversial
Banned in many northern cities
Became more popular in the south
Rich horse owners
**Importing/breeding/training of horses for racing
Slave jockeys & trainers
Horse racing
Opened a national race horse in
washington DC
Even though legal before 1823, horse racing did not capture the hearts of Americans until the famous 1823 race between
Eclipse (North) and Sir Henry (South).
[ ] became popular when horse racing declined in the 1830’s (many people owned trotters while only the wealthy could afford thoroughbred racehorses).
Harness racing (or trotting)
horse racers used to run [ ] mile heats
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Sir henry lost to
eclipse
- Greatest rider in American thoroughbred horse racing
- hand rider rather than a whip rider
- 1st victory in 1875; in 1884, won six races on four different horses, including the Kentucky Derby; in 1890, became the first rider to win three Kentucky Derbies
Isaac Murphy
died of heart failure in 1896 at age 35
Isaac Murphy
Latter part of 19th century, [ ] was both a popular pastime and a serious competitive sport
cycling
The first “superstar” of cycling
Marshall (Major) Taylor
educated on plantation, had a bicycle, performing stunts on it
Marshall (Major) Taylor
Moved from Indianapolis to Massachusetts because of racism when he was 17; however, the League of American Wheelmen (LAW) enacted a “whites only” rule – membership
Marshall (Major) Taylor
Story of how he had to race!–> had to race from start to finish in order to not be hit off his bike
Marshall (Major) Taylor
[ ] created baseball in 1839 in Cooperstown, NY – this story was created by Albert Spalding (former major league pitcher and sporting goods magnate)
Abner Doubleday
[ ] thought baseball should have an American pedigree and this would ultimately help his profit in his sporting goods store.
Spalding
1791 law in Pittsfield, MA prohibiting baseball within [ ] of town hall
80 yards
Establish rules for play
Moved their field to the Elysian Fields in Hoboken, NJ
Begins play as an “organized club”
Alexander Cartwright and his friends “The Knickerbockers”
Rules Alexander Cartwright and the Knickerbockers
Rules included:
* 9 players on the field
* Bases 90 feet apart
* Game consisted of 21 counts (outs)
with change after 3 outs
* Ball must be “pitched for the bat”
site of 1st organized baseball game
Elysian Fields
Teams form throughout NJ area
Adult recreational sport for “gentlemen”
1858: Games between “all star” teams (admission charged)
Players ran the league (no owners).
People began to pay to see
Prior to the Civil War: Baseball
- Known mostly in New England
Played by “gentlemen”
During the Civil War: Baseball
- Played by soldiers in both Union and Confederate Armies
Spontaneous games to pass time and some documented games between companies/regiments.
As a result of the Civil War: Baseball
- Was spread across the country
- Was spread to be played by all social classes (not only “gentlemen”)
Become recognized as “The National Pastime”
physically and socially
Reconstruction
electricity, telephone, printing press, radio, moving pictures
technology
Comes from a black face character who performed song and dance (derogatory)
Jim Crow Laws
Plessy vs. Ferguson
○ Homer Plessy sat in a white only train car
○ Ferguson put him in jail for 20 days
□ Plessy went to LA supreme court
□ Plessy then went to US supreme court
- Separate but equal
Baseball spread by [ ] during Civil War
soldiers