Kin ch 8

Intercollegiate football helped popularize newspapers, while newspapers helped promote intercollegiate football.

Which organization in the United States historically dominated the United States Olympic Committee through its control of international competition in several sports?

Dudley Sargent called the initial meeting that led to the establishment of the Association for the Advancement of Physical Education.

Men in the elite athletic clubs established in the United States in the mid to late 1800s competed most often in the sport of football.

Per Henrik Ling's gymnastics program influenced Catharine Beecher and Dioclesian Lewis.

College faculties initially organized men's intercollegiate athletics.

Some of the immigration of Germans to the United States was a result of the banning of Turner gymnastics in Germany.

Catherine Beecher developed calisthenics for females to promote their health, beauty, and strength.

Swedish gymnastics were popular with females in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Societal attitudes toward women in the 1800s restricted their sporting opportunities.

Who was the most significant person in the formulation of the rules of American football?

Who developed the apparatus or machines used at Harvard in individualized programs for the physical development of students?

What term or phrase describes the influence of European religions on attitudes toward play in the United States beginning in the colonial time and continuing until today?

German Turner gymnastics were first introduced in the United States in which of these institutions?

What was the reason for the establishment of the National Collegiate Athletic Association?

The outcome of the "Battle of the Systems" was that Sargent's system became the most popular system in this country in the 1900s.

Which type of program was taught at the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics?

Health was a primary goal of Edward Hitchcock's program at Amherst College.

Football was the first men's intercollegiate event.

What was Catharine Beecher's physical activity program that was described as a course of exercises designed to promote health, beauty, and strength?

The Normal Institute for Physical Education, which was established by Dioclesian Lewis in 1861 in Boston, was the first teacher training school for physical education in the United States.

Dudley Sargent was a leader in anthropometrics, teacher training, and individualized physical education programs.

Which of the following institutions offered teachers an outstanding advanced curriculum and faculty, making a certificate from it highly prestigious?

Calisthenics is a progressive, precise execution of movements on command for 11 body parts.

Native Americans borrowed their ball games from European immigrants.

Who designed exercise machines for individualized physical development?

The sporting heritage in the United States came primarily from which country?

What system emphasized movements using hand-held apparatus, such as dumb bells and Indian clubs?

Puritan attitudes favored participation in sporting diversions.

What was the initial purpose of the YMCA Training School?

A normal school was a teacher training institution.

Catharine Beecher's calisthenics program consisted of exercises designed to promote health, beauty, and strength, especially for females.

What was the founding purpose of the Amateur Athletic Union?

Americans' love for sports began with the development of intercollegiate athletics.

What was one reason why German gymnastics did not become the basis for the system of physical education in the United States?

What is often associated with sports played by Native Americans?

College faculties initially organized men's intercollegiate athletics in the United States.

What was a primary reason why playgrounds were established in cities in the 1800s?

German gymnastics were first introduced in this country at Round Hill School.

College women in the United States initially established, funded, coached, and promoted sport competitions between colleges.

Anthropometrics were used for various purposes and one to the major topics of shared interest among physical educators in the late 1800s.

The purpose of the 1889 Boston Conference on Physical Training was to promote Swedish gymnastics, but more importantly it provided exposure to the alternative physical education programs or gymnastics systems popular at the time.

Per Henrik Ling's gymnastics program influenced Catharine Beecher and Dioclesian Lewis.