Sports

Grantland Rice - writer, "gee whiz" writing style, writes about less popular
sports too

Jack Dempsey - most popular fighter of the 1920s, Champion during this
time period, long count

Francis Willard - writes book about riding a bike in her 50s

Dudley Sargent - doctor, against women in sports

Sendra Berenson - women educator, against competitive model for women
sports

Charles Dana Gibson - artist, draws athletic women

Helen Wills - dominant woman tennis player 1920s and 30s

Gertrude Ederle - swam English Channel faster than any man had done it to
that time

Francis Quimet - won 1913 US Open in golf, working class guy

Red Grange - best pro football player of the 1920s

Babe Didrikson - best female athlete of the first half of the 20th century, track
and field, turns to golf later