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Open Notebook QUIZ #2
- Ivy League campuses started the football trend.T / F
- Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania were T / F
the first 2 schools to have college football on campus.
- College Football rulesincluded 2 halves, no substitutions, andT / F
11 players on a side.
- Teams have always had to achieve 10 yards in 4 downs in T / F
order to get an additional 4 downs.
- Touchdowns counted for 4 points, instead of 6, the kick afterT / F
equaled 2 points, and field goals were worth 5 points.
- Enclosing of playing fields, permanent seating, and sellingT / F
entrancetickets all contributed to college football’s national explosion.
- College football filled the sports pages between horse racingT / F
and baseball seasons. - A Professional Football League would not be establisheduntil 1948. T / F
- Football traditions which were established included: T / F
homecoming, parades, pep bands, fight songs, and mascots. - The ‘flying wedge’ was eventually abolished from thecollege game.T / F
- Even though the game was extremely violent, serious injuriesT / F
were rare for both players and spectators alike.
- A ‘tramp’ athlete often appeared on varying rosters at differentT / F
universities during a given college football season.
- Due to its violence, football programs were abolished atT / F
certain universitiesthroughout the country.
- US President Theodore Roosevelt defended the gamebecauseheT / F
believed it built character reflecting the new American lifestyles.
- Stanford vs.California marked the arrival of college footballT / F
in the far west.
- Regional styles of play did not exist as a result of the spreadingT / F
of the game of college football to various universities.
- The south’s version of the game included a quick-pass orientedT / F
brand of attack.
- 1896 marked the establishment of the Western Conference.T / F
- Walter Camp first created the ‘All-American’ collegeT / F
football team. - William Henry Lewis was elected as an All-American in backT / F
to back years. - The post Civil War, post Industrial Revolution era marked theT / F
beginning of organized sports in America. - This country was becoming a nation of country dwellers.T / F
- Better and cheaper transportation contributed to the growthof theseT / F
leisure games into sport. - The 1st collegiate football game was played between RutgersandT / F
Princeton, ending in a tie. - Basketball and Volleyball were invented in the 1890’s.T / F
- The 1920’s is known as the ‘Spectator Age’ of sports.T / F
- Sports helped depression era Americans escape from theirdaily grind T / F
of, or lack of work. - The 1950’s directly contradicted the 1920’s interest in sports.T / F
- The 1960’s showed a greater impact by African Americanswithin theT / F
sporting arena’s. - Hockey and gender equity dominated the 1970’s.T / F
- 1980’s sports in America can be summed up by the rise anddominanceT / F
of ESPN and other cable outlets helping to spread sports into the family rooms of millions, nationally and even globally. - From 1990 to today, the sporting landscape in America can be T / F
defined by the technology boom, terrorist attacks (foreign and domestic), and natural disasters.