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  What is Sports
Sports have been the most popular form of recreation for people since time immemorial.
To jot down the conclusive history of sports in a short summary is an impractical proposition.
His efforts to rouse sports enthusiasm in France were initially met with scepticism and controversy.
www.historyofsports.info   (486 words)

  
  Sports: Debriefing - Keys
Soviet success in creating a world-class sport system within a few short years after the devastation wrought by World War II is even more remarkable considering how little of a base had existed even before the war.
International sporting competitions had been organized as early as the late 19th century, but they began to take on increasing significance after World War I. When two national teams met on the soccer field, event was no longer simply a test of skill among a handful of athletes.
Sport was supposed to serve the aims of the state: by channeling leisure time into socially useful activities, by increasing the health and fitness of the population and thereby creating more productive workers and better soldiers, and by winning prestige for the Communist system.
www.pbs.org /redfiles/sports/debrief/s_brief_ter_keys.htm   (1054 words)

  
 IAAF International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF.org - Inside IAAF - History
The International Amateur Athletic Federation was founded in 1912 by 17 national athletic federations who saw the need for a governing authority, for an athletic programme, for standardised technical equipment and world records.
The IAAF has subsequently led the sports movement worldwide in the development and application of an extensive anti-doping programme involving testing both in and out of competition.
This move towards a more professional sport was particularly recognised in 2001, when the IAAF Congress voted unanimously for the organisation's name to be changed to the International Association of Athletics Federations.
www.iaaf.org /insideIAAF/history/index.html   (833 words)

  
 CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History: 1912 Stockholm
The 1912 Games were the largest yet and were also the first games to enjoy major attention from the world's media, with events making front-page headlines in U.S. newspapers.
In an effort to improve competitive standards, a number of sports were cut from the 1908 games, which, judging by the amount of new world records established, was a visionary move.
Boxing was also supposed to be a part of the program, but the sport was illegal in Sweden and was left off the Olympic slate.
www.cbc.ca /olympics/2004/1912.html   (1468 words)

  
 Welcome to rediff.com : Sports - Athens 2004 History
In the Greco-Roman middleweight category a bout for the silver medal between Russia's Martin Klein and Finland's Alfred Asikainen went on for a record 11hr 40min.
It had been suggested that Thorpe's cause was not helped by the fact that then president of IOC from 1952 to 1972 Avery Brundage was a team-mate of Thorpe in 1912 and with the disqualification of the latter, Brundage was placed fifth from the earlier sixth.
Finally, in October 1982 Thorpe, the man who had been voted in 1950 as the greatest athlete of the first half-century, was pardoned by the IOC and the medals presented to his family.
www.rediff.com /sports/ath041912.htm   (722 words)

  
 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
Held in Stockholm, the 1912 Olympics were a model of efficiency.
The most popular hero of the 1912 Games was Jim Thorpe of the United States.
Stockholm 1912, Games of the V Olympiad: the Swedish team of women gymnasts parades in the stadium during the Opening Ceremony.
www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1912   (354 words)

  
 Howstuffworks "Sports Channel"
Sports feed our need for competition and the natural desire to test physical limits.
The articles and videos in the Sports section of HowStuffWorks explain the basics to newcomers, go into detail for the fans and cover new and unusual sports for the athletes.
The 1912 baseball season saw the opening of three new ballparks and record-setting triples.
entertainment.howstuffworks.com /sports-channel.htm   (239 words)

  
 Unusual and Discontinued Olympic Sports
1900 (5000m), 1904 (6437m), 1912 (8000m), 1920 (10000m), 1924 (10650m)
1900, 1908, 1912, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1948, 1952
1900, 1908, 1912, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936
www.topendsports.com /events/discontinued/list.htm   (100 words)

  
 Sports Deep Background: Book Highlights
Sport in a socialist country is a state concern, and is structured according to the principles of amateurism.
Stockholm, the host city in 1912, liked the amiable, well-spoken Russian contingent, but Marxist-Leninist historians were quick to point out that it was all blue blood.
So the U-turn in sports policy - its angles actually slightly softened by participation in a few international events during the five years preceding 1952 - fit the Soviet pattern of restoring pre-revolutionary goals and practices, even some of the most hated, when it was expedient.
www.pbs.org /redfiles/sports/deep/sports_deep_book.htm   (1025 words)

  
 Sports Immortals - The Founder
His Sports Memorabilia Collection has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Sport Magazine, and numerous periodicals and national television features.
Platt is a renowned authority in the field of sports collecting.
After I explained to him my plans to develop a sports museum to honor the greatest athletes of all time, he told me that he would be glad to contribute his last Dodger uniform.
www.sportsimmortals.com /founder.html   (586 words)

  
 1912 Detroit Tigers Trades and Transactions - Baseball-Reference.com
Drafted Marc Hall from the Omaha (Western) in the 1912 rule 5 draft.
Drafted Fred House from the Kewanee (Central Association) in the 1912 rule 5 draft.
Drafted Al Klawitter from the Portland (PCL) in the 1912 rule 5 draft.
www.baseball-reference.com /teams/DET/1912_trans.shtml   (239 words)

  
 Fenway Park
Duffy’s Cliff was a 10-foot-high mound which formed an incline in front of the left field wall from 1912 to 1933, extending from the left-field foul pole to the flag pole in center; named after the Red Sox’s Duffy Lewis, the acknowledged master of defensive play on the cliff.
Infield grass was transplanted from Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds to Fenway in 1912.
Sports, Jobs, and Taxes: The Economic Impact of Sports Teams and Stadiums by Roger G. Noll and Andrew Zimbalist.
www.ballparks.com /baseball/american/fenway.htm   (2395 words)

  
 Amazon.com: 1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs -The Election that Changed the Country: Books: James Chace   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Adult/High School–According to Chace, the election of 1912 was "a defining moment in American history." When Theodore Roosevelt's choice for successor, William Howard Taft, failed to support his reforms, Roosevelt left the GOP convention to run against Taft on the Bull Moose Progressive ticket.
In 1912 four of the giants of American politics faced each other in one of the most interesting presidential elections in the history of the United States.
If convincing people that the election of 1912 did indeed change America is the author's goal he has failed and he would have been far better off if he had left the subtitle out.
www.amazon.com /1912-Roosevelt-Election-Changed-Country/dp/0743203941   (1848 words)

  
 1912 in sports - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
FA Cup - Barnsley beat West Bromwich Albion 1–0 (aet) in a replay.
This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about 1912 in sports contains research on
1912 in sports, Baseball, minor leagues, Cricket, Football (Australian rules football), Football (soccer), England, General sporting events, Births, Deaths and 1912 in sports.
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 1912 in sports Information
See also: 1911 in sports, other events of 1912, 1913 in sports and the list of 'years in sports'.
April 20: The Boston Red Sox open in the new Fenway Park with a 7-6, 11-inning win over the New York Highlanders before 27,000.
1912 Summer Olympics takes place in Stockholm, Sweden
www.bookrags.com /1912_in_sports   (176 words)

  
 BYRON NELSON: 1912-2006 / Golf loses a legend and a gentleman
His Hall of Fame biography notes that Nelson developed the basis for the modern golf swing by using his hips and legs to drive the ball with the steel-shafted clubs that were replacing hickory clubs and for the manner in which he turned his shoulders and flexed his knees during his downswing.
He was approached in 1967 by the Salesmanship Club of Dallas to lend his name to the city's annual PGA Tour stop, and the event has raised a record $94 million for the club's charities.
Nantz said he was walking the course on the Wednesday before the tournament opened and saw the Nelsons walking along the 11th hole, the first hole of the section known as Amen Corner, which features a bridge named in Nelson's honor.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/09/27/SPGL6LDJ2V1.DTL&type=printable   (968 words)

  
 The official site of the Toronto Argonauts as powered by SLAM! Sports
Lionel continued competing in those sports and in 1920 at 19 years of age he won the Canadian Amateur Light-Heavyweight Boxing title.
Since Conacher had played professional sports he was no longer eligible to play football in Canada.
After retiring from sports, Conacher was elected to the Ontario Legislature as a member of the Liberal Party in 1937.
www.canoe.ca /Argos/History/HallOfFame/Lionel_Conacher.html   (951 words)

  
 1912 Chicago White Sox Trades and Transactions - Baseball-Reference.com
The Chicago White Sox sent Matty McIntyre (August 24, 1912) and Mutz Ens (January 30, 1913) to the Milwaukee (American Association) to complete the trade.
Drafted Reb Russell from the Fort Worth (Texas) in the 1912 rule 5 draft.
Drafted Mellie Wolfgang from the Lincoln (Western) in the 1912 rule 5 draft.
www.baseball-reference.com /teams/CHW/1912_trans.shtml   (251 words)

  
 CNN.com - Roller-coaster life of Indian icon, sports' first star - Jul 13, 2004
The great-great grandson of famed warrior Chief Black Hawk, he grew up hunting, fishing, playing sports (baseball being an early favorite) and learning from elders on Sauk and Fox land near Prague in what is now central Oklahoma.
While baseball remained the only sport in which an athlete could earn a good living, Thorpe continued to compete in other sports.
ABC's "Wide World of Sports" named him its Athlete of the Century, one of several groups to honor Thorpe alongside other athletic greats at the turn of the century.
www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/07/09/jim.thorpe   (1504 words)

  
 1912 Swim Team:I don't think much further explanation is needed. Designed to look like the average college sports team, ...
1912 Swim Team:I don't think much further explanation is needed.
Designed to look like the average college sports team, but with a twist.
This t-shirt is finely cut for women: not too tight and not too loose, with finely cut neckline and sleeves.
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 Baylor University || The Lariat Online || News
Nelson's long, fluid swing is considered the model of the modern way to strike a golf ball and his kind, caring style with fans and competitors made him one of the most well-liked people in sports.
Nelson was born Feb. 4, 1912, on the family farm and started in golf in 1922 as a caddie at Glen Garden Country Club in Fort Worth.
Sam Snead, the all-time leader in PGA victories, also was born in 1912.
www.baylor.edu /Lariat/news.php?action=story&story=42087   (676 words)

  
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 amateur - Information from Reference.com
By the beginning of the 20th cent., leaders of two major sports movements, the American intercollegiate athletic system and the Olympic Games (revived in 1896), had adopted amateurism, claiming it developed competitors who were morally superior to professionals.
As evidenced by the return of Thorpe's medals in 1982, amateurism by the 1990s was a concept of diminished importance and one more of technical than moral distinction.
For example, amateur athletes in sports such as basketball or football are not regarded as having the same level of ability professional athletes.
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 Women in Sports: The Struggle for Equality
Some people say sports such as men's football "pay their way," meaning that more attention--and funds--should be funneled into them because they make more money.
A turning point for women's sports occurred when President Richard Nixon signed Title IX of the Educational Amendment of 1972, which states that any educational program receiving Federal assistance can lose its funding if it discriminates on the basis of sex.
This incredible publicity is expected to cause an explosion of female interest in soccer--already the most popular sport among college-age females, according to a recent study by the National College Athletic Association.
www.riverdeep.net /current/2000/03/front.150300.women.jhtml   (1331 words)

  
 1912 in sports - Definition, explanation
Driftwood house built in 1912 from wood off a shipwreck.
Founded in 1912, the Port Bannatyne Golf Club can claim to be amongst the most scenic courses in Scotland.
Photos and newspaper accounts of auto racing at the historic location in Southern Kansas from 1912 through 1971.
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 1912-1920-1930 Dark Antique Watermelon Leather Football from Past Time Sports
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 Nationwide Tour goes north of the border for the Canadian PGA Championship
First staged in 1912, the Canadian PGA Championship is the second-oldest professional golf championship in Canada.
CAMBRIDGE, Ontario (Sports Network) -- The Samsung Canadian PGA Championship, one of the oldest events north of the border, tees off Thursday as a sanctioned event on the Nationwide Tour.
First staged in 1912, the Canadian PGA Championship is the second-oldest professional golf championship in Canada and boasts a legacy of legendary Canadian champions like George Knudson, Al Balding, Bob Panasik and Moe Norman.
www.pga.com /news/tours/nationwide/canadian072004.cfm   (595 words)

  
 Australian Sports Commission - Women & Sport
The first events open to women in the modern Olympic games – yachting, golf and tennis – were included in the program for the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris.
Australian women first competed in the Olympic Games in 1912, when Fanny Durack and Mia Wylie competed in the swimming events, winning a gold and silver medal respectively.
Since 1912, Australian teams at the Olympics have included 956 women, of which 171 have won at least one medal.
www.ausport.gov.au /women/fsolympics.asp   (416 words)

  
 King Kaufman's Sports Daily | Salon
King Kaufman's Sports Daily ALCS preview: Red Sox have the sluggers, the pen and two all-time great playoff starters.
King Kaufman's Sports Daily NLCS preview: A stealth series way out west should be a dandy, with Diamondbacks pitching cooling off the red-hot Rockies bats.
King Kaufman's Sports Daily TBS playoff report card: The low-key, anti-Fox approach is working nicely, but dopey, bunt-obsessed top voice Chip Caray is hard to take.
www.salon.com /sports/col/kaufman/2007/05/08/tuesday/index.html?source=rss   (255 words)

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