XMAS BREAK EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY

Sports History Extra Credit Project:* Research a person, place or thing that is important to the study of American Sports History.After researching, you may do the following: A. Write a two-three page paper explaining what this topic is about. Explain why knowledge of this topic is important to understanding Sports History. B. Do a 20 slide PPT. C. Make a poster or diorama of the topic.● A bibliography is necessary to validate your research.● An informal presentation to the class on the date which we return

12/17-18 HS Football

Unit #2 Journal #4--College Greats Eddie Robinson and Sammy Baugh. (Research Eddie Robinson and Sammy Baugh to write the journal entry if you are not in class). A. History of High School Football B. Friday Night Lights 2004 Movie about the 1988 Season of Permian High in Odessa, TX portraying the book by H.G. Bissinger. Character List 1. Coach Gary Gaines 2. Mike Winchell 3. “Boobie” Miles 4. Chris Comer 5. Don Billingsley 6. Brian Chavez

12/14 College Football Exam

A. College Football Exam

12/12-13 RUDY

Rudy Character List: Identify who the following were, and their influence in Rudy's Life from the Video. D-Bob Rudy's Father Father Cavanaugh Fortune (The Head Custodian) Short Essay Questions. 1. Look for how football shapes the life of the hero, obstacles he has to overcome, lessons to be learned. 2. Select 3 main issues Rudy dealt with in his life. Discuss these issues, with specific examples from the movie, in an essay.

12/11 College Participation

Unit #2 Journal #3 --What are intrinsic and extrinsic rewards of participating in College Football that are not found on the field? The Daniel Rudiger Story.

12/10 BCS Article--Bowl Challenge

12/3 Heisman Season

University Mascot Quiz--Pac 12/Big 10 / Ivy Leagues Heisman Trophy Questions--The Express Questions 1. What obstacles does Ernie Davis have to overcome in his life? 2. Why is the name of the movie "The Express"? 3. Why is his winning the Heisman Trophy a big deal? 4. Why didn’t his pro career work out?

11/27 Bear Bryant--Junction Boys

11/13 Football Intro

College Game Early History Rites of Autumn

11/6-9 Sabremetrics--Moneyball

Watch Moneyball Lecture of Moneyball Sabremetrics Questions Baseball Final Exam

10/26 Curt Flood/M&M Boys--Free Agency

Free Agency Unit 1 Journal #7---Willie Mays

10/25 AAGPBL

All American Girls Professional Baseball League 1943-1954 1. Who was Philip Wrigley? 2. What prompted Wrigley to start the AAGPBL? 3. Who was Bonnie Baker? 4. What did the teams consist of? 5. What was a high priority for being a player in the league? 6. How did the nation’s perspective on the role of women change due to the war and help the league? 7. How did rationing help the league? 8. What were the four first teams of the league? 9. How did the girls promote the girl next door image? 10. How did the league build on the patriotism of the time?

10/24 Satchel Paige

Race and Baseball Wkst. Who became baseball commissioner after the death of Judge Landis? Why was this important to the integration of MLB? 2. Identify the following players. Who they played for, what position, who were they compared with (white players)? a. Satchel Paige b. Josh Gibson 3. How did Branch Rickey select the man to integrate major league baseball in the 20th Century? What things did he do before making his decision? 4. What criteria did Rickey have for the player to break the “color line’? 5.What instructions did he give Jackie Robinson on how to win over the fans? 6. How did Rickey make it easier for Robinson in white baseball once he was signed-- Where did he play and why? 7. What were Rickey’s motives for doing all of this? What did HE want from integrating baseball? 8. How did the success of Jackie Robinson help kill black baseball? Unit 1 Journal #6--Satchel Paige

10/19-23 Race in Baseball

Race in Baseball The Soul of the Game

10/16-18 Baseball in the Golden Age

The Natural and THE NATURAL Wkst. IDENTIFY THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE IN COMPLETE SENTENCES. 1. POP FISHER 2. THE WHAMMER 3. MEMO 4. MAX MERCY 5. GUS SANDS 6. THE JUDGE 7. BUMP BAILEY 8. BOBBY SAVO 9. IRIS 10. HARRIET BYRD 11. Why does pop need to win the pennant? 12. How does roy get his chance to play for the knights? 13. What were examples from the movie that showed how baseball stars become celebrities during the Golden Age of Sports? 14. What happens when the lady in white stands up at the game in chicago? 15. What is the message or messages of the story? Babe Ruth Essay. Babe: Essay Your grandchild wants to know about Babe Ruth. What are you going to tell him/her? Include: 1. His early life. 2. His dreams and aspirations. 3. His successes and failures. 4. His contribution to baseball. 5. Lessons we can learn from his life and career. Babe: Essay

10/10-11 The Natural

Baseball in the Golden Age--1920s and 1930s Sports The Natural

10/8-9 Baseball in the Golden Age

Hall of Fame Selection Babe Ruth After journal writing on Babe Ruth---Unit 1 Journal #4, and watching the video on Ruth--Construct the following: Babe: Essay Your grandchild wants to know about Babe Ruth. What are you going to tell him/her? Include: 1. His early life. 2. His dreams and aspirations. 3. His successes and failures. 4. His contribution to baseball. 5. Lessons we can learn from his life and career.

10/3-5 Black Sox Scandal

Eight Men Out--Video Introduction of the Commissioner to Professional Sports Kenesaw Mountain Landis

10/2 Unit 1 Journal #3

Journal Topic: Unit #1—Journal #3---The Importance of Referees. Choose a game/contest in which you participated or observed as a fan in which the Officials/Umpires/etc. made a controversial call. Describe this call and the impact on the game, including your reaction to the call. Secondly, put yourself in the position of the official and consider the importance of referees/officials in all of the popular sports in America. Utilize the reaction of players/coaches/ and fans to replacement officials in the NFL as a rationale to the importance of officials and adherence to rules in our games.

9/27, 28 - 10/1 Early Baseball---Formation of MLB

Burns Inning #2 Traditions in the Game---7 Inning Stretch Casey at the Bat. Take Me Out to the Ballgame. 1st 5 Inductees to the Hall Christy Mathewson Ty Cobb Babe Ruth Walter Johnson Honus Wagner

9/24-26 Early Baseball--Burns Inning 1

Burns Inning 1--- Harry Wright--Owner of Cincinatti Reds Gambling Issues lead to the creation of the National League. William Hulbert---Leader of the Cartel known as the National League. No Games on Sunday Reserve Clause No Drinking or Gambling $.50 tickets Louisville Grays---Jim Devlin--1st player banned for gambling.

9/19-21 Early Baseball

Unit 1 Journal #2--Ty Cobb Early Baseball History--Burns Inning 1 The Knickerbocker Baseball Club (1845) One spring day in 1845, New York bank teller Alexander Cartwright suggested to his ballplaying companions that they organize formally into a club. From that humble start grew America's national game. Versions of baseball had been played long before; varieties of the children's game known in England as "rounders" and in America as "base ball" or "town ball" were popular throughout the northeastern states. But when the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club organized that September, Cartwright and his friends transformed the children's game into an adult sport, chiefly by three innovations still in effect today. 1. 90 ft. bases 2. 9 on a side w/ a fair and foul line. 3. No "SOAKING" (throwing the ball at the runner to get them out) 1869 Cincinatti Red Stockings 1st Professional Baseball Team. 1876 The Formation of the National League *Monopoly---Reserve Clause *Middle Class Pursuit 1. Games were $.50 2. No Alcohol Sold at the Games 3. No Games were played on Sunday

9/17-18 Early Sports/Intro

1. Syllabus Due 2. Early Sports--Spectator Sports Handout Review 3. Early Sports Quiz

9/13-14 Early Sports History

SPORTS- Games or Test of Skills undertaken primarily for the diversion of those who take part or who observe them (watch). Any play, pastime, exercise, game or contest performed 1. Under given Rules 2. Indoors or Outdoors 3. Individual or Team Basis 4. With or without Competition 5. Requiring Skill and Some Form of Physical Exertion Precise Origins are obscure---ALL CULTURES have known physical contests GREEKS- OLYMPIC GAMES ROMANS- SOME GAMES THAT REQUIRE MECHANICAL CONTRIVANCES OR THE USE OF ANIMALS (HORSE RACING, SHOOTING, ARCHERY, ETC. MIDDLE AGES- EUROPEAN SOCIETY--FEUDALISTIC SOCIETY WAS ISOLATED AND CHRISTIANITY-RELIGIOUS DOGMA OPPOSED THE USE OF THE BODY FOR PLAY ONLY CONTESTS BETWEEN KNIGHTS (MILITARY PURPOSES) WERE ALLOWED AND SUPPORTED. ARCHERY IS BIG IN ENGLAND. HE RENAISSANCE (14th to 17th Century) THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND HUMANISM (18th Century) GAMES AND EXERCISE GAIN RENEWED POPULARITY WEALTH AND SOCIAL CLASS TAKE OVER THE PREFERRED ACTIVITY UPPER CLASSES--POLO OR FALCONRY COMMONERS---LOWER CLASSES INEXPENSIVE, MASSED (TEAM) SPORTS TAKE SHAPE (SOCCER) MODERN GAMES INDUSTRIALIZATION (19TH CENTURY) THE SHIFT FROM LABOR INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE TO SERVICE ORIENTED/MACHINE AIDED JOBS IN FACTORIES HELP EXPAND SPORTS. PEOPLE HAVE MORE RECREATION TIME, ARE MASSED IN CITIES (URBANIZATION), AND SPORTS ARE SEEN AS A USEFUL RECREATION. MODERN ORGANIZATIONS SET UP TO GOVERN PLAY(LOCAL AND NATIONAL), EQUIPMENT IS STANDARDIZED, AND A DOCTRINE OF SPORTS BUILDING CHARACTER AND ENHANCING KEY VALUES LEAD TO SPORTS TO BE A NECESSARY ENDEAVOR FOR MEN. 1920s The Golden Age of Sports: Good Economic Times in U.S. Radio Newspapers---Add Sports Page

9/10-12 The Sandlot

5 Paragraph Essay Assigned on the Sandlot The Sandlot This movie says much about sport in our culture. Using specific examples from the movie answer the following question: What does the sandlot provide for the players on the “team”? Hint: Think about things in and out of the game. You must have a minimum of three (3) things the players gain from the experience of playing in the sandlot. Use proper essay technique. Blue or Black Ink / Typed

9/5-7 Week 1

Intro to the Class Sport-Working Definition Unit I Journal #1 : Describe your best sports moment

4/20-30 Golf History

History of Golf Golf become a sport for the common man--Vardon and Ouimet. The Greatest Game Golf in the Great Depression---The Making of a Major Bagger Vance

4/19 Boxing Test

4/11-18 Muhammad Ali

Ali and Frazier Video Boxing Review + Mike Tyson

4/6-10 Brown Bomber--Joe Louis

Joe Louis--The Brown Bomber--Life Story.

Journal Write--Joe Louis

4/2-5 BRACKETOLOGY--CINDERELLA MAN

Bracketology (NCAA Men's and Women's Basketball Tournament).

Cinderella Man--The Jimmy Braddock Story.

Essay on Cinderella Man

3/20-23 JACK JOHNSON

JACK JOHNSON VIDEO AND QUIZ.

HAPPY SPRING BREAK!

3/15-19 BOXING

Boxing Notes
BOXING
6,000 YEARS AGO-ETHIOPIA
688 B.C.-ANCIENT OLYMPIC PROGRAM
s GREEKS-SIT ON STONE POUNDED EACH OTHER
ROME-MYRMEX (LIMB PIERCER)
300 B.C.-BANNED IN ROME
*INVENTED THE RING
CHRISTIANITY SPREADS-PUGILISM DISAPPEARS
1600’S-ENGLAND BOXING RETURNS
1681-NEWSPAPER ACCOUNT OF A BOUT
MIXTURE OF BOXING AND WRESTLING
1719-JAMES FIGG BOXING ACADEMY IN LONDON
1743-JACK BROUGHTON RULES FOR BOXING
3’ SQUARE CENTER OF RING
1838-LONDON PRIZE RING RULES
RING WITH ROPES ROUNDS
ALL BAREKNUCKLE BOXING
1ST TWO AMERICAN BOXERS MADE THEIR NAME IN
ENGLAND
1776-BILL RICHMOND
1809-TOM MOLINEAUX
1816-1ST MATCH IN AMERICA
JACOB HYER V. TOM BEASLEY
1840’S BOXING BANNED IN ENGLAND
YANKEE SULLIVAN
1849-TOM HYER BEATS SULLIVAN IN 16 ROUNDS
1ST SPORTS STORY SENT OVER THE TELEGRAPH
1880-1ST CHAMPIONSHIP FIGHT
PADDY RYAN KO’S JOE GOSS 87 ROUNDS
1882-JOHN L. SULLIVAN BECOMES AMERICAN CHAMP
1885-MARQUIS OF QUEENSBERRY RULES GLOVES
BOB FITZSIMMONS
1ST TRIPLE CROWN CHAMPION
MIDDLEWEIGHT, LIGHT-HEAVY AND HEAVY
1893-KNOCKED OUT 7 MEN IN ONE NIGHT

JOE LOUIS THE BROWN BOMBER
HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION 60-1
HELD CHAMPIONSHIP 12 YEARS
LOUIS V. SCHEMELING DEMOCRACY V. NAZIS
COMEBACK TO MAKE $$$

SUGAR RAY ROBINSON
85-0 AS AN AMATEUR
128-1-2 AS A PROFESSIONAL
WELTERWEIGHT AND MIDDLEWEIGHT CHAMP
OVER 200 FIGHTS NEVER KNOCKED OUT
1980-RING MAGAZINE GREATEST FIGHTER OF ALL TIME

MUHAMMAD ALI
1960-CASSIUS CLAY WON OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL
LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT THE LOUISVILLE LIP
1964-VS SONNY LISTON
BECAME MUHAMMAD ALI
1967-TITLE TAKEN AWAY REFUSES ARMY
1970-LOSES TO JOE FRAZIER
1974-REGAINS TITLE V. GEORGE FOREMAN
RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE
1978-LOSES TO LEON SPINKS
SIX MONTHS LATER, ALI REGAINS CROWN 3RD TIME




Jack Johnson Video

3/14 BASKETBALL FINAL

3/13 Bracketology

3/8-12 Basketball Presentations

3/6-7 Basketball Project

Pick a topic from the list. There is only one topic per person in your class. The first person to choose will be the first to present.

After picking a project, prepare a limited prep speech--at least 2 min long / no longer than 5 min---about your topic. Presentations are due in class on Thursday, Mar 8.

Presentations must have visuals---Powerpoint is probably the best option.

Adolph Rupp Wilt Chamberlain
Ann Meyers John Stockton
Bill Russell Rick Pitino
Larry Bird Kevin McHale
Bobby Knight Rick Majerus
Cheryl Miller Hakeem Olajuwon
Ken Carter David Robinson
Dean Smith Pat Riley
Don Haskins Roy Williams
Dorothy Kamenshek Ralph Miller
George Mikan Dick Harter—Kamikaze Kids
James Naismith Bill Walton
Jerry West Lebron James
John Wooden Dwayne Wade
Kareem Abdul Jabbar Kobe Bryant
Magic Johnson Dirk Nowitski
Nancy Lieberman John Stockton
Oscar Robertson Michael Jordan
Pat Summit Phil Jackson
Pete Maravich Babe Zaharias
Shaquille O'Neal


Another topic may be okay with my approval.
Happy Research.

3/5 Journal Quiz

Bill Walton-wrap up.

Journal Quiz.

3/2 Women in Basketball

Journal #6---Cheryl Miller and Nancy Lieberman.

Bill Walton

2/29 His Airness--Michael Jordan

Journal #5---Michael Jordan. Journals turned in.

2/27-29 Glory Road

Racism in college basketball.

Texas Western and SEC basketball.

2/17-23 Education and Basketball

Coach Carter
(2 pts. each)

1. Why does Coach Carter insist that his players call him, and their team-mates, “sir” plus no using the N word?
2. What are some of the conditions of the contract players must sign?
3. Why does Coach Carter lock-out the players from the gym?
4. What message does Coach Carter say will be sent to the players if the lock-out is lifted?
5. Describe what generally happens to Richmond students after high school?

2/14-16 Hoop Dreams

After Hoop Dreams--Lecture

Hoop Dreams Wkst.

Journal #2A-B. Wilt Chamberlain and Kareem Abdul Jabbar

Journal #3 Bill Russell

Big East Mascots

Hoop Dreams Wkst.
A. Arthur Agee B. William Gates C. BOTH

1. Recruited to St. Joseph’s H.S.
2. Played varsity as a freshman.
3. Pt. Guard, freshman team.
4. Scholarship to Marquette University.
5. Father in jail-drugs/burglary.
6. 4th-5th grade reading level as freshman.
7. Had not seen father in 3 years.
8. Reached on grade level freshman year.
9. Attends Jr. College, bad grades you know—can’t make 700 on the SAT.
10. Brother was a great player, but did not make it.
11. Said he would be a better father than his had been.
12. Became a father in high school.
13. Gene Pingatore was his coach.
14. His father says he could play well when he was young.
15. His team never makes it Downstate.
16. Grades were his downfall.
17. Does graduate from college.
18. Injuries probably prevented him from making it big.
19. Became a youth social worker later in life.
20. Isaiah Thomas was his idol, put his nickname on his shoes.

2/8-10 Race and Basketball--The Allure of the Game to the Urban Youth

Hoop Dreams

Arthur Agee ---William Gates

Notes on the Video

2/3-7 Hoosiers

Hoosiers Wkst.

Identify:
1.Jimmy Chitwood
2.Norman Dale
3.James Naismith
4.1937 Bellfountain Bells
5.Myra Fleener
6. George Mikan
7. Bobby Plump
8. Shooter Flatch
9. 1954 Milan

10. Why did Hickory finish their first game with only 4 players on the floor?
11. What point was Coach Dale trying to make?
12. Why was Norman Dale suspended from coaching?
13. How does Ollie save the day in the play-offs?
14. How does Coach Dale try to calm his team before the championship game?
15. Describe the first basketball game. Who, How, When, Rules?
16. Compare the events of Hoosiers to what really happened to the Indiana High School basketball team the movie was based on.

2/2 David vs. Goliath Stories and Basketball

Bellfountain Bells

Milan Indians---Hoosiers

2/1 History of Basketball--Overview

See Basketball Notes in the All Assignments Links for the presentation from class

1/31 Intro to 2nd Semester

Intro to Second Semester

Basketball