Kines 341 Exam 1

What is Historical Sensibility?

keen appreciation of analyzing how society is presently and thinking with the past instead of modern standards

What are the 5 C’s of Historical Sensibility

1. Context- situating events within social, cultural, political, and economic

2. Contingency- the outcome of an event, could change

3. Change- transformed over time

4. Continuity- highlights what has persisted

5. Complex- acknowledges issues that rarely have a simple exploration

What was the Doubleday myth?

that Mayor Doubleday created American baseball, Spalding book was consistent with this theory, NOT TRUE

Mills commision

• gave them 3 years to prove it was an American-born sport

• motivation of the two claims: commercialism and patriotism

• Abner Groves only source of Doubleday myth too

Where does Football come from?

Medieval England- two different towns or split town, move the ball to the other side. Very uncivilized

Civilizing process during the Middle Ages- less aggression, more manners, rulebook, organized games

1800s became more civilized and organized rugby or soccer, ametuer college football

1950s introduction of T.V let companies to raise money to gain more support. Football allowed America to show ads.

What is Sportization?

process by which folk games become transferred into modern sport

How are sports Americanizing?

1. U.S “sport space” developed

2. Other sports “crowded out” by sports perceived as uniquely American

3. Sports add to the term “American Exceptionalism”

What is Nativism?

the ideology or policy that favors “native” inhabitants over immigrants

• anti-immigrant, anti-catholic, anti-radical

Where was the birthplace of college football?

Hard to say, but people generally agree on Rutger v.s Princeton

• it was more similar to soccer

• contingency through introduction of diff. rules helped shape American football

Who was the Father of College Football?

Walter Camp- Rutgers University

What helped shape the rising popularization of certain sports?

The T.V made in 1950s, to grow a bigger market, ads.

Football allows stoppage for ads.