history of sports final exam
Calvin Edwin (Cal ripken)
"The iron man" father was a pro baseball player in baltimore and became coach/manager after injury Led HS team to state champ wanted to go pro right after HS selected by orioles in second round went into spring training with baltimore but was then traded to rochester red wings. was apart of the longest game and played the whole time
Patsy Mink equal opportunity in education Act
(Title nine) started by Patsy Mink because of her experiences. She was good enough to play on a ny mens team but couldn't because she was a girl. Could not get into medical school because she was a girl so she went to law school and becomes a lawyer. was made so everyone and the same educational opportunities. Athletics was not mentioned at first but it was brought into it because it is considered a educational activity. 3 main points in athletics 1. Scholarships 2. participation 3. other benefits
four major Golf tournaments
1. Masters 2. U.S. Open 3. Open Championship 4. PGA Championship
3 greatesr Highschool rivalries in louisville history
1. st. X vs flaget 2. Trinity vs st.x 3. Male vs. Manuel
FIFA
1904 FIFA was established and refused to have america apart of the sport. men started FIFA tournament in 1930 they selected best 13 teams and today it is a 32 team tournament takes 2 years to reduce 200 to 32 U.S. has never won or benn in final game Women 1991 have 7 world cups U.S. is leader with 3 of the 7 wins won third place 3 times lost 1 time in the finals
Bellarmine top five greatest moments
1950 mens basketball game 1994 womens basketball final 4 1992 mens basketball team bellarmine 2014 mens ball team 2011 mens bball team
Miracle on Ice
1980 olympics semi finals USA were the underdogs and Soviets were picked to win and were made up of professionals and they beat the Soviets 4-3 youngest team in history to play in the olympics the avg. age was 21 the players fought a lot because they were bitter rivals
Belmont
3rd and final race 3 weeks after preakness 1 1/2 mile long race known as "the test of the champion" Secratariat record breaking time of 2:24 won by 31 lenghts
Preakness
3rd saturday in may baltimore maryland secratariat hold record time
Ben Hagan
64 PGA tour Wins 9 majors near death car accident in 1949 had to learn how to walk again came back and won 6 majors
History of ESPN
Bill and Scott Rasmussen father and son thought of the idea while stuck in a traffic jam in the late 70s 20 percent of home had cable they invited 12 local channels to a meeting to ask to put their channel in cable only 5 people showed up Bill decided the cheapest route would be satellite TV instead of cable. Al Parinello with RCA met with bill and they made a deal ESPN would be a 24 hr channel. ESPN and NCAA sign deal for 2 years in march Bill thought it would be hard to get pro leagues on board so he went to college sports first. First Ever Broadcast on ESPN was sportscaster 30000 people watched first televised event was a morris softball game at holy cross in louisville the NBA was the first pro sport to sign a deal with espn 1987 ESPN gains partial right to NFL games today it is in 98 mil homes
2 main pro leagues of lax
Box lacrosse- indoor and it is a lot like hockey. established in 1988 and has 9 teams field lacrosse- played outdoor established in 1999 and also has 9 teams
8 origianal teams of the NBA
Celtics, knicks, Hawks, Royals, Lakers, nationals, Pistons, Warriros
Red Auerbach
Coached fro the Celtics and would light a cigar before every time they won. First guy to have a black player and start 5 back men
Racing triple crown
Derby preakness Belmont only 3 year old thoroughbreds are allowed if you win all three it is considered the biggest accomplishment
original seix NHL
Detroit redwings, Chicago black hawks, Montreal Canadians, torrent maple leafs, Boston Bruins, New York rangers
George Beers
Father of Lax he came up with the new rules
Gary Player
First international golfer to gain stardom won his first PGA tour event at seneca golf course at kentucky derby open only player to win British open in 3 decades
Essay number 2: Explain how college football problems pf the late 19th and early 20th centuries led to the establishment of the NCAA
Football in its early years had many problems. The students ran the athletic events. They had people who were called ringers that could just be brought into play without even being a student. They had players playing for however mean years they wanted and they were paying players. All of these events led to the star of the IAAUS it was the intercollegiate athletic association of the united states and the rules applied to the first conference which was the Big 10. The first volunteer leaders was palmer perigee and he organized and invited people to the first convention. The first few riles of the IAAUS were you could only play for 3 years , you and to have a 2.0 to play, players and to be conditioned by the university, the coaches could not be professionals and the students no longer ran the athletic events. The IAAUS was eventually changed to the NCAA. without the beginning of the IAAUS rules for sports would probably not be the same today.
oldest NFL Franchise
Greenbay Packers
1992 mens basketball team
HOF player tom schurfranz he didn't start his freshmen year
Masters
Held on the first full week of April Started by Clifford roberts and Bobby Jones 1934 Horton smith won initially only Bobby Jones close associates played
Andy messersmith
LA dodgers in his prime asked for a no trade clause and the dodgers refused so he asked the owner and he refused. he called marvin miller and was told to pitch for the 1971 season but not sign his contract and he did and got no money for the year. Atlanta braves signed him and he was nickamed channel because he was number 17 and that was the changed they played on TV. signed a 3 year contract for 1000000 dollars this was never done before and he had a horrible year in 1976. braves sold him to yankees and he played avg and the dodgers resigned
Mickey Mantle
New york yankees 1951-68 known as the "new joe dimaggio" centerfielder hit 536 home runs went to 12 words series 7 wins and 5 losses
Open Championship
Oldest of the four major tournaments established 1860. 8 golfers played 3 rounds of a 12 hole course first winner was willie park sr. beat tom morris by two strokes. i thats always been dominated by pros only six amateurs have won all between 1890-1930. Bobby jones was the last of these.
Pete Mavarich
Pistol Pete was known for ball control and got his nickname by the way he passes the ball from the side it look like he's shooting a revolver. Still holds scoring records which is crazy because back then they'd didn't have the 3pt shot. he played for LSU
Lou Gehrig
Played for the yankees. his career was cut shorts because he was diagnosed with ALS. He had the most grand slams in baseball. his retirement speech was known as baseballs Gettysburg address. He was the first player to ever get his jersey retired.
Tori Murden
Rowed 81 days by herself in a row boat across the atlantic ocean
Essay number 4: Discuss the history of the ABA and its ultimate merger with the more established NBA
The ABA was formed to eventually merge with the NBA. it was known for their fast break style of play. it also established more rules than the NBA including the 30 second shot clock and and the 3 point shot. They eventually merged with NBA for serval different reasons, competition for fans, the signing of joe Namaath, tv contracts and bidding wars involving coaches over players.
Essay number 1: Discuss the development of the national and american leagues in professional baseball from 1869-1950
The national league started with 12 teams the louisville colonels being one of them. They then decided that they wanted to cut out 4 teams to make it 8 and Louisville was one of the teams bumped out. They also had the American league that had an original 8 teams. later on they both added two teams the national league brought in the Mets and the Houston actors and the american league brought in the angels and Washington senators. Throughout the years baseball and a fews events that shaped it the way it is today like the black sox scandal in 1919. this caused it to get its first commissioner and when ray chapman died they changed the rule to fi the baseball started to look dirty the ump could demand a new ball. it also had people change the way of baseball like babe ruth, Ty Cobb, Jackie Robinson, and Larry Doby and so many more. Without these people and these events baseball would not be thew ay it is today.
Most NCAA championships
UK, UCLA
Essay number 3: what were three problems walter bars faced during his time as the first executive director of the NCAA
Walter Byars faced many different problems being the first executive director. Scholarships were a big problem because coaches were giving out too many and giving out too much money. He also had the problem of academics and almost anyone getting into any school no matte what their grades were. Another problem he faces was the issue of whether or not freshmen should be able to play.
Red Grande
a football player university of Illinois. he was once knocked out for 2 days and played for their next game. He was one of the two players whose jerseys got rented at Illinois and he went on to play for the Chicago bears.
Bobby Jones
amateur golfer won 13 majors only golfer to win grand slam in a single year
history of soccer
been played for over 2000 years started in england in the 19th century oneida football club was the first established team 1866 rule book for football association came out
college football playoff
before they had bowl championship series BCS selection system that created five bowl game match ups rose bowl, fiesta bowl, orange bowl, sugarbowl, and chick-fil-a bowl were the main ones CFP began in 2014 four teams compete final two go on to play for championsip A 13 member committee sects and seeds 4 teams to take part committee consists of cute athletic directors Football is the only D1 sport that is without and officially organized tournament problems: it is biased, not enough teams selected, people want 8 teams instead of 4
Carl Stoltz
came up with organized sports for children in 1938. founded little league. decided the rules every kid had to play at least 2 innings in 1938-47 pennsylvania was the only state involved new jersey then asked to join from 47-48 it expanded to 94 different leagues with 10 different states involved t went from 1947 having 1 team to in 1954 having 3000
Yogi Berra
catcher for new york yankees quit school after 8th grade and had to go to work for his family. 1946-63. Retired and got a job for new york mets. 1965 played for the mets in crisis situations and married his sweetheart. Famous quote "It aint over till its over" known for funny quotes
Cassius Marcellus clay
changed name to Muhammed ali. was follower of the Malcolm X. he was from Louisville and was one of the greatest boxers of all time
1994 womens basketball final four
charlie just was the coach he had a record of 299-105 his team won 5 GLVC champs went to the elite 8 four times
Derby
churchill downs most exciting two minutes in sports called "run for the roses" secratariat hold record time derby is highest attendance of all three
John Wooden
coahced at UCLA and never had a losing record with them. only ever had one losing record in his whole life. won 10 championships in 12 years
Bowie Kuhn
commissioner of baseball known for the blockbuster trade when he traded 3 guys to phillies for the best player at the time
3 biggest problems for NCAA
concussion cases Jeffrey Kessler anti trust case the o'bannon case
Marvin Miller
corporate lawyer for andy messersmith and dave Mcknalley told Messersmith to pitch in 1971 but don't sign his contract and messersmith got no money that year he told mcknalley not to retire
1950 mens basketball game
dec 27 first athletic event vs st marks first team to have an african american player In the state of ky bellarmine president went to jail twice fighiting for civil rights
2014 mens basketball team
earned the programs third midwest region title and went tot he final four in 5 yrs record was 31-4 Jake thelan was an all american
USGA
first formal gold organization in the country
John J. Mcdermott
first native born american winner of the U.S. open
concussion cases
first ncaa concussion case was brought by adrian arringotn a former defesive back and rover for eastern ilionois
Robert White
first president of PGA
lamar hunt
founded AFL. Got tv contracts and his daughter is the reason we have the name super bowl
Father Brehauf
gave it the name lacrosse
AAU
good for basketball and college. volleyball is huge with this. baseball took a hit because of this.
Mark Johnson
got a last second shot to tie the game and scored again at the end of the power play
Frank beard
half brother to ralph beard Ky fab 5 university of florida hall of fame went to st. x 1969 PGA tour winner 2 ryder cup teams first one to ever write a book on what its like to be on a pro tour on ESPN as a golf commentator for 20 years
U.S. Open
held in mid june first U.S. open held in 1895 and the first winner was horace rawlins who was a englishmen. Tournament was dominated by experienced british players until 1911. since then mostly americans have won
Gene Sarazen
hit the "Shot heard round the world" holing a shot form the fairway. 1st win grand slam
Rodman wanamaker
hosted a luncheon
O'bannon case
improper use of player likenesses in EA's NCAA related video games using their face/ number and stats without permission he won
Jeffrey Kessler anit-trust case
injunction that would prevent the NCAA and conferences from limiting the amount of financial aid filing to change financial policy problem with this if there wasn't a cap no would lot a lot of money
Dr. James A. Naisnith
invented the game of basketball. He wanted something that was going to keep his football players in shape during the winter. he combined different sports to make the game. he used peach baskets as the hoops and you couldn't dribble the ball you just had to pass.
michael Jordan
junior and senior year did not make varsity team went to north carolina NBA drafted selected third overall by bulls 1984-93 95-98 retired and bought wizards in 2000 but they were so bad he came out of retirement and played with them 2001-2003 only person to have his jersey retire to a team he never played for
Stan musial
known as "stan the man" signed first contract in 1937 with cardinals he signed as a pitcher then switched to the outfield played for 22 seasons with the cardinals he won 3 mvps after retirement becomes VP of the cardinals General Manager for 1 year and won world series in 67
Stephani traci
leading scorer in bellarmines history
Arnold Palmer
learn to play at 3 years old played at Wake forest dropped out after roommate died and went to coast guard for a few years came back won U.S. amateur in 1954 nicknamed "The King" won first U.S. open at age of 21 first american born player to win british open
Chris Evert
made tennis popular darling of tennis and tv
James Ogilirie Farlie
main organisier of the first Open championship
Curt flood
major league baseball center fielder. He was a 3 season all star led national league in hits asked for a 3000 dollar raise to Gussie Busch and was traded to Phillies he was told to play for the Phillies or he wouldn't play at all so he sat out a year so he could become free agent
Swimming
michael phelps ends career with 23 gold medals 28 total simone manuel become first african american to win individual event kaite ledecky becomes second woman to win three individual events in one olympic game
M&M boys
mickey mantle and roger Maris who was a right fielder. both set to break babe ruth HR record 60 Maris broke it with 61 and Mantle ended up with 55
constance apple bee
mother of field hockey and mother of lax got bored because field hockey was in the fall so she came up with something to play in the spring and it was the women version of lax
final five
named this becsaue they are the last gymnastics team to have 5 girls after this year they are going to do 4 overall USA won 12 medals Biles and Raisman had historic performances they broke 1984 and 2004 records first team to have 2 returning olympians since 2000
history of lax
oldest team sport in north america started 1100 ad invented by native americans of the irqpis confederacy played for culture/religion games could last for several days and there was no set time anywhere form 100-1000 men cold compete in a single game reasons for play were for war, religious reasons, and it toughened warriors, recreation.. it was a very rough game and people died first collegiate game was 1877 new york University vs. manhattan college called the fastest game on two feet
Triple crown winners
only been 12 in history first one was sir barton 1973 was secratariat american pharroh was the last one in 2015 first in 37 years
2011 mens basketball team
only national champ BU has record 29-4 Jeremy kindle and brayden hobb both all americans brayden hobbs said to be perfect basketball player and greatest passer
summer olympics
opening ceremonies highlighted south african culture 28 sports in the summer olympics
track and field
overall won 13 gold medals highest since 1996 success in long jump, hurdles, shot put and 4x1, 4x4 Dalia muhuammed won first gold for hurdles 400 m
Johnny Unitas
played at UofL and was a QB he was very small and not many people wanted him besides rofl. He was picked 9th round in the draft by the steelers as a hometown pick but was quickly released and he then went to work in construction. he played for a semi pro team and got the opportunity by the colts to try out 3rd string QB. he then became one for eh greatest QBs of all time.
Herb Brook
played at the university of Minnesota and played for the USA olympic hockey team but was cut right before he competed. came back and played in the next two and coached at the university of Minnesota and won no championship. He coached the USA olympic team and made the players hate him because he wanted them to bond
Sam snead
played barefoot and won wore straw hat nicknamed "Slammin Sammy"
Tom Brady
played football and baseball in HS played FB at the university of michigan didn't play until his junior season as QB led team to orange bowl his senior season drafted in 6th round to patriots was backup until starting Qb got hurt and replaced him was apart of the Deflategate was accused of deflating the balls to make it easier to grip them and was suspended for four games now considered one of greatest QB's
Ted williams
played for boston red sox his entire career. 1939-60 lost 4 years due to WWII was a navy pilot. .344 lifetime batting avg. 1941 playd every game that season and had a batting avg. .406 that is still a record today.
Dom Dimaggio
played for boston red sox. not as good as joe
Joe Dimagio
played for only the new york yankees. one of the greatest baseball players of 30's and 40's. greatest centerfielder. Baseball Hall of fame 42-45 didn't play due to WWII and he was a sergeant. 56 games straight with at least one hit. married marilyn monroe
Wayne gretskey
played for the Edmonton Oilers and then ro the LA kings. was in as a traitor to Canadians because of this trade. he holds 61 records and got a tule change because he was purposely get offsetting penalties so it would be 4v4
Larry Doby
played for the cleave land indians and was the first black person in the American League and the second in the MLB
Gordie howe
played for the red wings was "mr. hockey" didn't retire until he was 52. he retired earlier but then came back to play with his sons outscoring them 2 out of the 6 years they played together
PGA Championship
played in mid august established in 1916 first winner was Jim Barnes. primarily played by eastern half of U.S. 200 holes in 7 days
shoeless joe jackson
played with no shoes because they gave him blisters. his batting avg was .356 he was apart of the black sox scandal but during the trail they found him innocent but he was still banned for life. during the world series he hit a .375
Tiger woods
real name Eldrick Tont Woods. nicknamed in honor of his fathers friend went to Stanford won masters in a record breaking performance fist african american to win masters won 5 masters in a row
knute rockne
saved up money to go to college until he was 22 and went to the university of notre dame. he went on to be a coach there having the greatest percentage of wins and losses 88.2 percent in 13 years
mike eruzione
scored "the goal" to make the score 4-3
Wilt chamberlain
scored 40-50 points a game. game between him and bill russel were most looked forward to. he averaged 30 puts and 20 rebounds from his whole career had sex with 20000 women
Buzz Schneider
scored a 50 ft shot in the miracle on ice game
George Grande and Lee Linard
sports announcer for ESPN
College soccer
st louis university won 10 NCAA champs haven't won since 1973 Indiana has 8 virgina has 7 for womens UNC has 21 champs- last time they won was 2012 Notre Dame has 3 Grand valley state dominates D2
Mary T. meagher
swimmer. went to scared hear academy and was nicknamed Madaam butterfly because she was so good in the butterfly stroke. She went to college and California berkely and went to the olympics. She was supposed to compete in the 1980 Olympics but the U.S. boycotted the Moscow Olympics to protest the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. She then competed in the 1984 and 1986 olympics winning several medals.
1963 basketball team
very first basketball team to go to the NCAA tourney Alex Groza was coach
Dave McKnalley
wanted to retire and marvin miller told him not to. played for orioles
Jack Dempsey
was a boxer fought in one of the most brutal matches ever called the david and goliath match
Rocky marciano
was a boxer who went 49-0
joe louis
was a boxer. the red winds stadium is named after him. he is from Detroit and he was involved in some bad things like gangs and drug abuse. he ended up being confined in a wheel chair and had financial hardships
Walter camp
was a football coach and he came up with the center snap and the 4 downs and the safety points. he was the Father of football
Cy young
was a pitcher he never warmed up and never had a sore arm. he has the most wins and losses and he kept out of the first five hall of famers but later put in in 1937
Tris Speaker
was also known as one of the greatest hitters of all time. he was good friends with ty cobb.
Jim Thorpe
was americas first great olympic athlete. he was a track star and competed in every track event there was. He was a great a great college football player and played for a small indian school. he also played for a junior pro baseball team and when they found out about this they stripped him of his medal because he was considered a professional.
Alex Groza
was apart of the UK fab five. he was caught in a point shaving scandal was banned from basketball. he was a coach at Bellarmine
Jesse owens
was called buckeye bolt. he went to the Ohio state university and competed in the olympics in track. He broke records and said that Adolf Hitler shook his hand when he won and has a picture of it.
Frank selvy
was from kentucky he played for firman college and he had a 100 point game and was the #1 draft pick
Paul hornung
was from louisville and everyone wanted him. He got it down between uk and Notre dame. he wanted to go to uk but his mom wanted him to go to Notre dame. he said the only way he would come to ND was if he could play basketball to and they said okay. ND was not vey successful but he was becoming the first guy to win the heismen trophy and be on a team with a losing record.
Harold Pee wee reese
was from louisville ky and went to duping manuel high school. He got cut 3 times before making the team his senior year and only played in 6 games. he was drafted by the Louisville colonels and played short stop for them. He then went to play for the dodgers with jackie robinson. one game when jackie was getting booed and yelled at, Pee Wee went over to him and put his arm around him and everyone stopped.
bob Cousy
was known for his ball control. none could take the ball away from him they came up with shot clock because of this. he and Bill Brussel are creditied for the making of the fast break
Dizzy Dean
was one of the dean brothers. his brother was daffy dean and they were both pitchers. He wet on to win the 7 fame world series and Dizzy was inducted into the hallof fame
Ty Cobb
was one of the greatest hitters of all time being the youngest guy to reach 1000 hits at the age of 24. h was apart of the first 5 people inducted into the hall of fame. He overcame adversity by being hazed extremely bad by his team. His mother also shot and killed his father on accident.
ray chapman
was one of the only baseball players to ever be killed by being hit with a baseball. he was hit by a pitch thrown by carl mays. After he was killed they were not allowed to rough the balls up anymore
Adolph Rupp
was only a coach ever at UK. He thought that good luck was finding a bobby pin. he now has Rupp arena named after him and he died of spinal cancer
Al michaels
was the announcer during the olympic game who said "do you believe in miracles" baseball announcer for cinch reds only 2nd time announcing for hockey was voted greatest sports moment in history.
Peter Seltz
was the arbitrator and owners agreed to do whatever sleet did.
Steve Ballesteros
was the first European player in 1980
amos alonzo stagg
was the first athletic director. He founded the tackling dummy, and the reverse. He came up with the huddle and was the first to put numbers on players jerseys.
Kennesaw mountain landis
was the first baseball commissioner after the black sox scandal. Said that if you are found gambling or betting on baseball you would be banned he lasted 28 years as commissioner.
Jack Johnson
was the first black heavy weight champion of the world. He asked to box Jim jefyires but he said not because he was black. H essayed Tommy burns and he agreed to d it in Australia. during the fight the police and to stop it because they were scared tommy burns could be killed. Jack Johnson was heavy weight champ of the world and jim jefyires came out of retirement to fight him. This fight was known as the fight of the century and Jack Johnson beat him. It took place on July 4th 1910
babe dedrickson zaharias
was the first great woman athlete there was. She go her nick name Babe because she was playing baseball with a bunch of boys and hit 5 homers and they said she hit like babe ruth. She plated basketball in college and excelled in that and after basketball she changed to track and field and went to the 1932 olympics and came back with 2 gold medals and 1 silver. She then switched to golf and became one of the greatest golfers there was, She was diagnosed with cancer and the doctor said she would never play again but she did and won 10 championships in 1 year and 20 days.
George Mikan
was the first really big guy he was 6'10 and played for the lakers
immaculata college
was the first women basketball team to win a championship they also won the next two after that
jim Craig
was the goalie stopping 36-39 attempts at goal
Honus Wagner
was the greatest all around baseball player there was. he was in the first five hall of famers
pierre de coubertin
was the guy who brought back the olympics in 1896 because he wants to revive french nationalistic
Jack Nicklaus
was the oldest player at the age of 46 began playing at the age of 10. Nicknamed "golden bear" played at ohio state won NCAA champ in 1961 defeated arnold palmer at the U.S. open 1962 retired and got involved in gold course designing designed vallhalla
Barney Dreyfus
was the owner of the louisville colonels when he heard that they were cutting teams from the national league he had a feeling that louisville was going to be one of them so he bought half to the Pittsburg pirates and brought with him 3 hall of famers from the Louisville colonels. He also built the first concrete stadium
Myles Brand
was the president director of the NCAA from 2005-2009 and former president of IU who fired bobby knight
Mark emmert
was the president of university of Washington. He is the current president director of the NCAA
longest game
went 33 inning game started at 8 and ended just before sunrise had to continue on a different day
Lebron james
went to HS St. vincent St. marys 3 state champs 3 mr. basketball skipped college and was the first pick by then cavs in 2003 draft left cars and went to miami hear until 2014 went back to cavs in 2014 and is still currently there
Peyton manning
went to Isidore newman school was the #1 recruited QB in the nation his senior year and went to tennessee in college by junior year he was able to graduate but decided to stay and his senior year one sullivan award was the #1 overall draft pick to colts 2006 only QB to throw over 12000 yds in first three seasons 100 TDS by his 56th career game released to colts and signedd 5 year contracts with broncos tennessee retired his jersey and colts retired his jersey and are building a statue of him
Bobby Nickles
went to st x involved in a accident and was in hospital for 96 days said he would never regain full sue of led and he did 11 PGA wins struck by lightning during PGA touring most hole in 1s in PGA tournys- 12 Beat Arnold palmer and Jack nicklaus led every day in the tournament and was the first player to do this
Pat summit
won silver medal at the olympics. Started head coaching at the age of 22. Coached for tennesee vols and won many championships.