History of Physical Education
Dr. Hartwig Nissen
(norweigan) introduced Swedish System to Boston schools
Delphine Hanna
-MD -used scientific principles and anthropometrics for college women -1st woman appointed at professor rank of physical education, Oberlin College created 1st college-level teacher preparation program in physical education for credit in the U.S.
Francis Lieber
-directed the Boston gymnasium -opened first swimming pool in Boston in 1827
Thomas Wood
-emphasized educational goals through "natural activities/gymnastics" sports, games, dances, aquatics, arts, and recreation. -wrote The New Physical Education with Rosalind Cassidy
Rosalind Cassidy
-helped promote "Education THROUGH the Physical"
Charles Follen
-opened 1st college gymnasium in U.S. -established 1st public gymnasium in Boston in 1826
Mabel Lee
-taught at University of Nebraska about how PE was not only nonessential and trivial
1859
1st intercollegiate baseball game
1869
1st intercollegiate football game (Princeton vs. Rutgers)
1852
1st intercollegiate sport for men (Harvard and Yale in rowing)
Basketball
1st intercollegiate sport for women (Senda Berenson) 1896
Olympic Games
776 B.C. to about 400 A.D. held every 4 years to honor Zeus
Sargent's system
Advocated hygienic, educative, recreative, and remedial aims through individualized exercises on apparatus
1888
Amateur Athletic Union
1979
American ALLIANCE for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance
1937
American Association for Health and Physical Education
1938
American Association for Health, Physical Education and RECREATION
1974
American Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and DANCE
1886
American Association for the Advancement of Physical Education
1903
American Physical Education Association
1885
Association for the Advancement of Physical Education
April 5th, 1896
Athens, Greece 1st of the Modern Olympic games
1891
Basketball (YMCA) James Naismith Springfield, MA
1863
Civil War
Wellesley College
Department of Hygiene and Physical Education in 1909
Fredrick Jahn
Father of Gymnastics
Mary Hemenway
Founded the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics
Dudley Sargent
MD; assistant professor, Hemenway Gymnasium at Harvard and thought Physical Education was not academic fought for physical education to have same status as other subject areas
Robert Roberts
MD; developed idea of muscle symmetry
Edward Hitchcock
MD; director for the department of Hygiene and Physical Culture at Amherst College, 1861 (Massachusetts) 1st President of AAPE
1868
New York Athletic Club
1892
Ohio required public schools to include physical education in curriculum
Zeus
Olympic Council of gods
2014
SHAPE America: Society of Health and Physical Educators
Dio Lewis
Started stretching protocol with partners use of tubing and exercise bands (proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation stretching)
1895
Volleyball (YMCA) William G. Morgan Holyoke, MA Purpose: provide men less strenuous exercise at lunch
Dutch
bowling, sleigh riding, horse riding
YMCA gymnastics
contributed to the development of the all-around man
German gymnastics
developed individual abilities and healthy, strong youth for war or emergencies using apparatus
Hitchcock's system
emphasized hygiene through required exercises with light apparatus
Puritans
forbade frivolous activities
Amy Morris Homans
introduced Swedish System to Boston schools; directed Normal School of Gymnastics
Jay Nash
leader in outdoor education and recreation
R. Tate McKenzie
leader of playground movement; sculptor
Athens
liberal, progressive and democratic "well rounded"
American Gymnastics Systems
offered to men through YMCAs (1st in Boston 1851); "all-around man"
William Anderson
organized the Adelphi Conference (NY) leading physical education directors who were mostly medical doctors (1885) 1st named AAPE
Clark Hetherington
originated the term "New Physical Education" established undergraduate programs at New York University
Swedish gymnastics
promoted health, correct expression, and beauty of performance using exact movement patterns
Charles McCloy
research professor in PE; strongly believed that PE should be advanced through research
Sparta
strong, dominating armies
Charles Beck
turner/friend of Jahn considered the 1st teacher of physical education in the united states
greek ideal
unity of Action and Wisdom
1866
what year california passed a law requiring physical exercise as part of the public schools (YWCA)
Jesse Williams
wrote 41 books; became one of the most influential leaders in Physical Education
