The Club System
This was seen as the first international club event.
The Modern Olympic Games
Formed in 1869, this was the first openly all-professional team.
Cincinnati Red Stockings
Private clubs sponsored tournaments for these two sports to benefit their membership.
Tennis and Golf
Known for her victory over Bobby Riggs "Battle of the Sexes" in 1973, she established the Women's Tennis Association and was a founder of "WomenSports" magazine.
Billie Jean King
This university had the first sport management academic program
Ohio University
This city was host to the first modern Olympic Games that were held in 1896.
Athens, Greece
This was the first professional sport in the United States.
Harness Racing
He was hired as PGA tour director in 1937 and is recognized as the architect of the professional golf tournament.
Fred Corcoran
He was the first commissioner of the MLB
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Sport Management Majors are typically housed in one of four colleges. This included schools of Business, Schools of Tourism and Hospitality, Schools of Kinesiology, and this school where the UT sport management program resides.
College of Education
This country is the birthplace of modern sport and sport management.
England
Founded the National League of Professional Baseball Players in 1876 and was known as the "Czar of Baseball".
William Hulbert
The Red Cross supported charity golf tournaments during which war?
World War II
He is know as the "father of black baseball"
Andrew “Rube” Foster.
This organization's purpose is to promote, stimulate, and encourage study, research, scholarly writing, and professional development in the area of sport management, both in the theoretical and applied aspects.
North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM)
Sport management originated through the sport of thoroughbred racing in the form of this organization.
The Jockey Club
National League owners imposed these on their players in an effort to maintain a clean image.
This was the standard minimum purse for the first professional golf tournaments
$3000
He formed the first African American athletic conference that set up a structure for league and tournament play for historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs).
E.B Henderson
This accreditation provider has recently reaccredited the University of Tennessee
Commission on Sport Management Accreditation COSMA
This young French physical educator was instrumental in initiating the modern Olympic Games.
Pierre de Coubertin
This was the year the pennant race was created in professional baseball.
1876
In addition to being a famous Christmas Crooner, this movie star also orchestrated the first celebrity professional and amateur (pro-am) tournament.
Bing Crosby
Before becoming the WTA, women's Tennis was sponsored by this cigarette brand.
Virginia Slims
One of the two people credited with the concept of sport management as an academic field
James Mason and/or Walter O'Malley