Professions in Physical activity
What activity led to more physical activity professions rising in the U.S.?
Sports
A movie starring Tom Hanks, took place in 1943 and highlighted two sisters who joined the first professional baseball league for women as their husbands were fighting in World War II.
A league of Their Own
The Games of Ancient Greece have influenced the physical activities that we take part in today?
Olympic Games
Major League Baseball was segregated until 1947 when what baseball player joined the Brooklyn Dodgers?
Jackie Robinson
A recent global recession in the year ______ reduced the number of programs devoted to the history of sport.
2008
What other professions focused on physical activity until the late 19th century?
Athletes, physicians, educators, ministries, journalists, gymnastic specialists, health reform advocates
In what year was the first modern Olympic games held?
1896
Who was president of the International Olympic Committee from 1952 to 1972.
Brundage
What War made the U.S military recognize the need for physical training when about ⅓ of draftees were declared unfit to serve?
WW1
What does the NASSH stand for?
North American Society for Sports History
What was the first physical activity profession?
Teaching Physical education
In 1950, what city recreational organization was created that allowed children to compete and learn the basic techniques and skills of basketball?
Biddy Basketball
From the mid-1800s to about 1900, This caused the advent of more leisure time and it sparked interest in developing spectator sports.
Industrialization
What year was little league baseball created?
1939
Many historians shy away from the history of physiology deeming it?
unworthy/ unimportant
Who was the first director of the Harvard College Gymnasium?
Aaron Molyneaux Hewlett
In the 1920’s, what alternative did female physical educators turn to in hopes of avoiding the stress of high-level athletic competition while also encouraging all girls and women to participate?
Intramural sports
The earliest identifiable U.S. physical activity profession was established in what century.
19th century
What years were the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in play?
1943-1954
Which two decades, did physical educators begin publishing several textbooks about the history of physiology
1920s and 1930’s
Where did gymnastics specialists immigrate from to establish gymnastics programs and write self help books in the U.S?
Europe
As the ranks of sport historians began to grow, there was no scholarly association that existed to help advance this field. In 1962, Marvin Eyler, Seward Staley, and Earle Ziegler developed a formal organization for sport historians which is known as? Hint: The acronym for the association is (NCPEAM)
National College Physical Education Association for Men
During the first half of the 20th century, competitive sport was in the limelight. What intercollegiate sport was most popular during this time?
American football
What activity did participation in sports replace as the centerpiece of most school and college physical education curriculums?
Gymnastics Exercise
In 1917, historian Frederick Paxxon wrote a classic article titled “The ____ of Sport”.
Rise