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	JWA - Bobbie Rosenfeld - Biography
		Born in 1904, Rosenfeld was known for her wise cracks as well as for her sportsmanship.
		By 1928 Rosenfeld was traveling to the Amsterdam Olympics for what she termed her "greatest victory." There, the small Canadian women's track team, celebrated by the press as "the matchless six," swept the events.
		Rosenfeld was honored nationally in 1950 when a press poll of sportswriters voted her Canada’s Female Athlete of the Half-Century.
	www.jwa.org /exhibits/wov/rosenfeld (431 words)

	Women Warriors - Athletes - Fanny "Bobbie" Rosenfeld (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Fanny "Bobbie" Rosenfeld is probably the most well known amongst the formidable women who made up Canada's "Matchless Six"; the track and field team that swept the podium in the 1928 Olympic Games, in Amsterdam.
		Bobbie won a silver medal in the 100-yard dash and a fifth place finish in the 800 metres and later on the Canadian team went on to win a gold medal in the 400-yard relay with Bobbie as the starting runner.
		Rosenfeld's love of sports however, was too strong and she became a sports journalist, writing a column for the Globe and Mail from 1937 to 1957.
	www.womenwarriors.ca /en/athletes/profile.asp?id=69 (532 words)

	CAAWS
		Dublin outlines not only Rosenfeld's achievements in the arena of track and field that include being among the first group of female athletes to compete at the Olympics where she medaled, but also her brief but groundbreaking career as an insurance salesperson and her twenty years as a sports writer.
		One of the many incidences of team spirit Rosenfeld displayed was during an Olympic running race where she ran along side a colleague, sacrificing her own chance at winning, while encouraging her Canadian teammate to stay in the race and finish (pp.
		Bobbie Rosenfeld: The Olympian Who Could Do Everything is a very enjoyable read about a woman whose humour, charm, political savvy and inspiring athleticism should be known to students of all ages.
	www.caaws.ca /e/print_story.cfm?ID=34 (567 words)

	YORK UNIVERSITY MEDIA RELEASE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rosenfeld's story is one of a young Jewish girl whose Russian immigrant parents struggled to eke out an existence in the junk business in Barrie, Ontario, at a time when rampant anti-Semitism prevented Jews from being employed in either the trades or the professions.
		At the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games, Rosenfeld won the gold medal in the 400-metre relay, a silver in the 100-metre that was contested as a dead heat, and soon after ran in the 800-metre relay to help her team.
		The City of Toronto established Bobbie Rosenfeld Park in 1991, next to the Skydome and the CN Tower, and a stamp was issued by Canada Post in 1996 to honour her as a Canadian Olympian.
	www.yorku.ca /mediar/releases_1996_2000/archive/012000.htm (529 words)

	Welcome to the Jewish Independent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bobbie Rosenfeld: The Olympian Who Could Do Everything is a biography of a talented sportswoman who is nearly forgotten, yet who helped make inroads for women at a time when so few were allowed to participate in competitive sport.
		In 1949, sportswriters and broadcasters in Canada voted Rosenfeld the "Canadian Woman Athlete for the Half-Century." She was one of the first athletes to be inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame, in 1955.
		The Bobbie Rosenfeld Park, which lies between the Skydome and the CN Tower in Toronto, was built in 1991.
	www.jewishbulletin.ca /Archives/Sept04/archives04Sept10-12.html (735 words)

	CBC Sports Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bobbie Rosenfeld, Jean Thompson, Ethel Smith, Mrytle Cook, Ethel Catherwood, and Jane Bell were so good that they were known as the Matchless Six.
		Rosenfeld appeared to have won but the gold medal was awarded to the American Betty Robinson.
		Bobbie Rosenfeld encouraged an injured Jean Thompson to finish the 800 metre race.
	cbc.ca /sports/olympians/matchless.shtml (1029 words)

	Powell's Books - Bobbie Rosenfeld: The Olympian Who Could Do Everything by Anne Dublin
		Bobbie Rosenfeld May Be Canada's all-round greatest athlete of the twentieth century.
		A Sports Hall of Famer, Bobbie was born in 1904 in Russia and came to Canada when she was less than a month old.
		But Bobbie Rosenfeld's popularity was due to more than her athletic ability or, later, her skills as a sportswriter.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=17-1896764827-1 (139 words)

	Canadiana \| Library \| Rosenfeld
		Bobbie Rosenfeld went after everything with full force and "owned" whatever sport she entered into.
		In 1929, she was struck with a severe case of arthritis; it placed her in the hospital for 8 months and left her restricted to crutches for a year longer.
		With her 40 year career, Bobbie Rosenfeld still remains the only woman "all-rounder" in the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame.
	7thfloormedia.com /resources/canadiana/library/rosenfeld.html (423 words)

	Fanny “Bobbie” Rosenfeld
		In 1950, Bobbie Rosenfeld was named Canada’s Female Athlete of the Half-Century by the sportswriters of Canada.
		During her extraordinary career, Rosenfeld held a variety of Canadian records in the Standing Long Jump, the Running Long Jump, the 8-Pound Shotput, the Discus, and the Javelin.
		Rosenfeld was elected to the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame in 1949.
	www.jewishsports.net /BioPages/FannyRosenfeld.htm (184 words)

	Dublin2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rosenfeld, a Jew born in Russia in 1903 but raised in Barrie, Ontario, where her parents ran an antique/junk shop, was named Canada’s female athlete of the half-century in 1950.
		When Bobbie Rosenfeld won a gold medal as part of the women’s 4 X 100 relay team at the 1928 Olympics, as well as a silver medal and the top points placement for all athletes at the Games, her team was greeted by 100,000 fans back in Toronto.
		The premier of Ontario was present, and Rosenfeld then had a tea in her honour from the Junior Council of Jewish Women, and was moreover presented with a new car, a Durant sports coupe.
	www.ss.ucalgary.ca /ces/JournalDatabase/CESDataFiles/CESJ_Bookreviews/CESv36no02Dublin.htm (1929 words)

	Profiles of Notable Women in Hockey
		In fact, Fanny 'Bobbie' Rosenfeld's sporting exploits were so extraordinary during the 1920s and thirties that she was named Canada's Female Athlete of the First Half-Century (1900-1950).
		Rosenfeld was born in Austria in 1904, but moved to Barrie, Ontario as a child and by her early twenties, had starred as a centre on the 1927 and '29 Ontario champion Toronto Patterson Pats of the North Toronto Ladies' City League.
		Bobbie Rosenfeld represented Canada in track & field at the 1928 Olympics, winning a gold medal in the 4x100 relay and a silver in the hundred yard dash.
	www.hhof.com /html/wmspla04.shtml (1426 words)

	HistoryTelevision.ca :: TV :: Shows :: The Canadians
		The easiest way to describe Bobbie Rosenfeld’s athleticism is to say that the only sport at which she did not excel was swimming.
		This documentary is the life story of this funny and unusual woman who loved to perform for a large audience and no stage could provide her a bigger audience than the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics: the first year that women were allowed to participate in track and field events.
		Bobbie’s Silver medal in the 100 metres, her selfless help for a teammate in the 800 metres, (a distance for which she had not trained at all) and a Gold medal in the 4X100-metre relay, are only a small part of the story of this courageous athlete.
	www.historytelevision.ca /tv/shows/titledetails/title_15362.asp (238 words)

	JWA Presents "This Week in History"
		Born Fanny Rosenfeld in Dnepropetrovsk, Russia in 1904, she moved to Canada as an infant; she was later nicknamed "Bobbie" because of her bobbed hair.
		Coming from the rear, Rosenfeld ran alongside Thompson through most of the race, allowing her teammate to finish fourth while she placed fifth; this was considered a great act of compassion and sportsmanship, as Rosenfeld could easily have pulled ahead and earned a medal in the race.
		Rosenfeld had helped to show that women's competition could be a worthy part of the Olympics; after the Games closed, the delegates of the International Amateur Athletic Federation voted 16-6 to continue women's track and field events at future Olympics.
	www.jwa.org /this_week/week30.html (2345 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rosenfeld competed in three events and won two medals, including the gold, as a member of Canada's 4x100-meter relay team; they set the world record of 48.8 in the final.
		Rosenfeld won her second medal in the 100-meter sprint, finishing second in the final (12.3) to capture the silver.
		Rosenfeld also played on basketball, hockey, and softball championship teams, but earned her greatest fame as a track athlete.
	www.jewsinsports.org /Olympics.asp?sport=olympics&ID=82 (662 words)

	CNN Transcript - TalkBack Live: Herbal Supplement Dangers: Do You Know What You're Taking? - June 8, 2000
		ROSENFELD: Well, that is broad enough for me. They are not regulated with regard to dosage, to efficacy, to safety, to standardization.
		The reality is, and I think Dr. Rosenfeld was on the right direction when he listed several of the major herbal products that are scientifically sound, and backed by clinical studies, and he mentioned the large number of responsible companies.
		ROSENFELD: Because of, I think, I think because of the lobbying efforts of this industry that got Congress to pass what I consider to be a ludicrous and dangerous law.
	edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0006/08/tl.00.html (5103 words)

	The Olympians
		But Fanny Rosenfeld did not simply stand against the prejudice of the first half of the twentieth century, she dashed headlong into them and thus was a wind of change in Canada and abroad.
		During the workday Rosenfeld was a stenographer at the Patterson Chocolate Factory in Toronto.
		Rosenfeld was a trailblazer, running far ahead of her time and against the intolerance of the everyday.
	www.histori.ca /minutes/language.do?lang=en&target=/lp.do?id=13098 (4401 words)

	Queen of Angels Academy Dorval: Student Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Fanny Bobbie Rosenfeld was born in Russia in 1903, but came to Canada when she was still a baby.
		Bobbie (as she was nicknamed) went on to set many Canadian records in track and field and to win an Olympic Medal.
		Bobbie Rosenfeld passed away in 1969 at the age of 66.
	www.qaa.qc.ca /qaaVersion2/schoolActivities/Houses.html (1232 words)

	Second Story Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A Sports Hall of Famer, Bobbie was born in 1904 in a small Russian town and came to Canada with her immigrant parents when she was less than a month old.
		But Bobbie Rosenfeld's popularity was due to more than her athletic brilliance, or later, her skills as a sportswriter with the Globe and Mail; she was admired for her strength of character - her decency, honesty and sense of fair play.
		Bobbie Rosenfeld: The Olympian Who Could Do Everything is a great story for anyone, of any age.
	www.secondstorypress.on.ca /books/bobbierosenfeld.html (234 words)

	Bobbie Rosenfeld: The Olympian Who Could Do Everything by Anne Dublin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		If Fanny "Bobbie" Rosenfeld had been an American male athlete, libraries would already have plenty of information about her.
		Born in the Ukraine in 1903 or 1904, Rosenfeld immigrated with her Jewish family to Canada in 1905.
		She became a star player in ice hockey and softball and excelled in tennis and track and field, leading the Canadian women's relay team to an Olympic gold medal and winning a silver one in the 100-meter event in 1928.
	www.musicbookshops.com /e/Everything_But_The_Girl/Bobbie_Rosenfeld_The_Olympian_Who_Could_Do_Everything_1896764827.htm (245 words)

	Kislev (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bobbie Rosenfeld - 4 Kislev 5730 (November 14, 1969).
		Though her athletic career was cut short by arthritis, Rosenfeld was instrumental in paving the way for women's participation in sports.
		Sports - Bobbie Rosenfeld, whose yahrzeit we observe this month, is one of the most accomplished female athletes ever.
	www.hillel.org /Hillel/NewHille.nsf/FCB8259CA861AE57852567D30043BA26/33AC45515228F21B85256D2700660D1B?OpenDocument (735 words)

	Bobbie Rosenfeld: The Olympian Who Could Do Everything
		Kids who are sports fans will find it particularly interesting and inspirational, as Rosenfeld was an amazing athlete who had a wonderful sense of humor, team work, and fair play.
		The text is rich in ethnic (Rosenfeld was a Russian Jew) and feminist themes, as well.
		Dublin deftly creates context so that readers understand the historical significance of Bobbie's achievements, including her impact on the women's movement.
	www.iyares.com /amazon/details.aspx?id=1896764827 (317 words)

	JWA - Bobbie Rosenfeld - "Sports Reel"
		The only woman on the Globe and Mail sports staff, Rosenfeld was one of a small but prominent group of female sportswriters across the country.
		For eighteen years, Rosenfeld covered women's sports with wit and "refreshing candor." She celebrated female pioneers in everything from bowling to rodeo riding, and wrote with authority on softball, basketball, hockey, track- all the fields she had once dominated.
		But perhaps more importantly, Rosenfeld used her column to advocate for women athletes.
	www.jwa.org /exhibits/wov/rosenfeld/reel.html (171 words)

	Bobbie Rosenfeld: The Olympian Who cheap Could Do Everything - Second Story Press - Anne Dublin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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	www.onlineshop.us.com /prod_31383936373634383237/Bobbie_Rosenfeld_The.php (265 words)

	SLAM! Sports: 2000 Summer Games: History of the Games
		Some people believed that female athletes would not be able to withstand the physical and emotional hardships that came with athletics.
		But many female athletes, including Canada's "Saskatoon Lily" who won the high jump and Bobbie Rosenfeld who became Canada's top female athlete of the first half century, proved them wrong.
		Bobbie Rosenfeld and Ethel Smith also placed second and third in the 100m sprint.
	www.canoe.ca /2000GamesHistory/1928games.html (195 words)

	Jews in Sports from P to Y
		Australia's Albert A. Rosenfeld (1885-) and Britain's Lewis Harris were outstanding Rugby League players.
		Rosenfeld appeared in the first test series between England and Australia in 1909, and during the 1913-14 season he scored a record 80 tries for Huddersfield in the Northern Rugby Football League.
		Harris was a member of the Hull Kingston Rovers when they won the Challenge Cup in 1925 and were Northern Rugby Football League champions in 1921 and 1923.
	www.jewishsports.com /jewsin/history/p2yhistory.htm (2707 words)

	Kitchen: Bobbie Rosenfeld: The Olympian Who Could Do Everything $7.48 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This biography is a work оf art: it's tough to blend this much biographical data, anecdotes, photos, and clippings into a coherent and interesting stоrу.
		Kids who аrе sports fans will find it particularly interesting and inspirational, as Rosenfeld was an amazing аthlеtе who had a wonderful sense of humor, team wоrк, and fair play.
		Dublin deftly creates context so that readers understand the historical significance of Bobbie's achievements, inсluding her impact on the women's movement.
	www.edtrstory.com /tov31383936373634383237.html (343 words)

	Women Warriors - Athletes - Canada's Matchless Six (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		They consisted of: Bobbie Rosenfeld, Myrtle Cook, Ethel Smith, Jane Bell, Ethel Catherwood and Jean Thompson.
		Two thousand people were waiting for them at the train station when they returned from their triumphant showing at the Olympics and perhaps many average Canadians had changed their minds about what women could or could not do by this time.
		Rosenfeld and Cook went on to become sportswriters for the Globe and Mail and the Montreal Star, Smith and Thompson retired from competition and married, Bell became a physical education teacher and Catherwood moved to the States and was never heard of again.
	www.womenwarriors.ca /en/athletes/profile.asp?id=3 (569 words)

	Find in a Library: Bobbie Rosenfeld : the Olympian who could do everything
		Bobbie Rosenfeld : the Olympian who could do everything
		Subjects: Rosenfeld, Bobbie, -- 1904-1969 -- Juvenile literature.
		Rosenfeld, Bobbie, -- 1904-1969 -- Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
	worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/1f25d8574133b932a19afeb4da09e526.html (88 words)

	Fair Game: Pioneering Canadian women in sports - Sports - CBC Archives
		But thanks to pioneering athletes such as Bobbie Rosenfeld, Nancy Greene and Hayley Wickenheiser, young women now have the freedom to participate and excel in any sport — be it track, skiing or hockey.
		These women not only excelled in their chosen fields but were instrumental in shattering stereotypes of the female athlete.
		Bobbie Rosenfeld sets the bar with her athletic excellence.
	archives.cbc.ca /300c.asp?id=1-41-714 (251 words)

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