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Stella Walsh
-Famous runner who competed for Poland in theOlympics- had ambiguous genitalia TERM 2
Suzanne
Lenglen
DEFINITION 2 -French tennis player-first female tennis celebrity-may have been greatest female tennis player of all time- 31championshipstitles TERM 3
Gertrude Ederle
DEFINITION 3 -First women to swim English Channel (American competitionswimmer)-broke men's record by 2 hours TERM 4
Babe Didrickson
DEFINITION 4 Amazing Athlete who excelled in;-Golf-Basketball-Track and Field-also won 2 Gold at Olympics TERM 5
Jackie Mitchell
DEFINITION 5 -1st women to sign professional baseball contract (minors)
Toni Stone
-1st AfricanAmerican inpro baseball (Indy Clowns) TERM 7
Martina Navertalova
DEFINITION 7 -one of the best tennis players of all time-20Wimbledon tittles TERM 8
Wilma Rudolph
DEFINITION 8
- 3x gold medalist in Rome Olympics- had childhood polio- friends with Mohammad Ali TERM 9
Bobbi Gibb and Katherine Switzer
DEFINITION 9 -Women's MarathonPioneers-Bobbi Gibb snuck into the Boston Marathon and ran in nurses shoes. TERM 10
Joan Benoit
DEFINITION 10 1st women's olympic gold medalist in marathon
Primary Sources
-Primary sources are original materials. Information for which the writer has no personal knowledge is not primary, although it may be used by historians in the absence of a primary source. TERM 17
Secondary Sources
DEFINITION 17 -In scholarship, a secondary source is a document or recording that relates or discusses information originally presented elsewhere. TERM 18
Colonial America (Re creative)
DEFINITION 18 Improved chances to survive-Hunting-Fishing-Racing-Boating TERM 19
Colonial America (Diversion)
DEFINITION 19 Divert people from survival-Gander pooling-Skittles-Fives TERM 20
Goose pulling
DEFINITION 20 Goose pulling was a blood sport practiced in parts of the Netherlands, Belgium, England and North America from the 17th to the 19th centuries.
Fives
Fives is an English sport believed to derive from the same origins as many racquet sports. In fives, a ball is propelled against the walls of a special court using gloved or bare hands as though they were a racquet. TERM 22
Skittles
DEFINITION 22 an oldEuropeanlawn game, a variety ofbowlingfrom whichten-pin bowling,duckpin bowling,candlepin bowling(in theUnited States), andfive-pin bowling(inCanada) are descended. In regions of theUnited Kingdomthe game remains a popular indoorpub game. TERM 23
DEFINITION 23 people groupedcloselytogether making it easier to play- transportation and communication improve-sports put people in a community in the city-fitness and health-sense of community-urban period-the city TERM 24
DEFINITION 24 -turned to the character buildingideology-Women and Blacks excluded from this TERM 25
1880-1960 Women
DEFINITION 25 -Play Days-TelegraphMeets-Title IX-Skirt Theory-AAAGBL (All American Girls Baseball League)
Title IX
No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance... TERM 32
Indian Clubs
DEFINITION 32 Physical education. (Sport) as an alternative to women. TERM 33
4 Major Paradox
DEFINITION 33
- Institutions devoted to mind are recognized through physicalprow-less.2) Institutions devoted to prodevelopmentbecome main component of amateurism.3) Institutions devoted toamateurismbuild pro infustructures4) Athletes become simultaneously the most glorified andvilifiedstudents TERM 34
Amaturism
DEFINITION 34 An athlete who has never accepted money, or who accepts money under restrictions specified by a regulatory body, for participating in a competition.
